First, the setting of the longest day in Chang 'an history
On the Lantern Festival every year 1 month 15, people not only eat jiaozi and enjoy lanterns, but also set off fireworks and watch acrobatics and dragon and lion dances in solve riddles on the lanterns. On this special festival, men and women from all walks of life can go shopping, visiting, partying and entertaining. "Tang Dynasty" and "Chang 'an" are very prominent and brilliant words in the history of China civilization development. The Kaiyuan and Tianbao years before the Anshi Rebellion were even called the "prosperous Tang Dynasty", and literature, poetry, economy and people's livelihood blossomed. At that time, the openness and economic development of the Tang Dynasty have been the object of investigation and research by many scholars. It may not be enough to describe the prosperous Tang Dynasty with the words of openness, tolerance, political clarity, economic prosperity, clothes of four nationalities and coming to Korea. Therefore, at the beginning of the novel, the grand scene of Chang 'an West City before the Lantern Festival in Chang 'an City in the third year of Tang Tianbao was presented. From the enlightened animal flag hanging in the middle of the west gate, to the team of Hu merchants traveling day and night in the city, and then to the layout of every street and square involved in the later story, the original novel describes it in great detail, which not only presents the prosperity of the ancient Chang 'an Economic Free Trade Zone "Xicheng" for readers, but also reproduces it in a panoramic view.
Second, the setting of the longest day in Chang 'an scene
The Tang Dynasty inherited the basic layout of the Sui Dynasty. The plane of Chang 'an City is rectangular, with a length of 972 1 m from east to west, a width of 8652 meters from north to south and a circumference of 36.7 kilometers. The city wall is about 12 meters wide and more than 5 meters high. All of them are made of rammed earth, and the wall section at the gate is also made of brick walls. The city layout is dignified, the streets are straight and wide, and the buildings are row upon row, showing a typical oriental city weather. After the author's textual research, the original novel restores the urban layout of Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty, including eight streets in the north and south, east and west 14 street and *** 108 square. As the basic unit of Chang 'an City, the way of dividing urban areas by the "Li Fang system" was perfected from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty and then to the Tang Dynasty, so the basic features of the old Chang 'an City were described completely in the original novel.