Bianjing Chunshen: Miss Shen's Daily Life

During the Jiayou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing was blooming with flowers. Shen Wei, the legitimate daughter of the third-rank imperial censor Shen Mansion, quietly observed the splendor of the Song Dynasty in her boudoir with the exquisite mind of a sixteen-year-old. She has a slim golden body, is good at ordering and serving tea, and is good at embroidery and flower arrangement. She has gone through a whole year of delicate time following the tradition of Tusu on the Yuan Dynasty, lanterns on the Lantern Festival, the beauty of flowers in the morning, and the fragrance of AI on the Dragon Boat Festival. On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, we drank Tusu wine and put up scarlet peach charms to pray for a happy new year; on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, we went to the Bianhe River Lantern Festival, tasted lactose dumplings and watched the fireworks in the sky; in the Hua Dynasty, we played tea with the noble ladies and arranged flowers, using seven branches and leaves to set off three thirds of youth; in the Dragon Boat Festival, we made mugwort sachets and watched the dragon boat race on the Bianhe River; in the Mid-Autumn Festival, we tasted crab-stuffed oranges and chanted "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" to the moon... The novel takes Shen Wei's daily life as its axis and lays out all the cultural details such as the food, clothing, etiquette, and customs of the Song Dynasty. During the three meals, four seasons, and festivals, it not only describes the elegant life of ladies and the thoughts of girls, but also paints a vivid scroll of the urban culture of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty.