Although the grand wedding of Lord of Bing could not be said to have been celebrated by the entire realm, it took place on New Year's Day. As all the feudal lords lifted the curfew for the occasion, it offered a magnificent opportunity for the Confucian School and Bingzhou to sing its praises far and wide.
Though everyone knew the joint celebrations by the lords were simply due to the coincidence of New Year's Day and the Cold Clothes Festival, the people of Bingzhou, eager to save face and bask in the glory, boldly claimed it was because all lords had to show respect to their lord and queen. Thus, the whole world celebrated together, the curfew was lifted for three days, and a general amnesty was declared across the land.
"Quite a few new idioms have been coined on this single day!" As a literary patriarch of the Confucian School and an eyewitness to boot, Master Xun was naturally the most fitting chronicler.
Chapter 448