Chapter 930: King Zhao loves opera

At noon, the banquet started as scheduled in Chengyun Hall. Zhu Gaoxu, the two imperial concubines, as well as ministers, nobles, officials and guests from Zhangde Prefecture, gathered in the hall. There were also musicians singing and dancing to entertain.

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to etiquette, and this kind of banquet had rules. The rules were very detailed, from the music, songs and dances to the lines and movements of people, everything was fixed. It was not just the people singing and dancing who were performing, in fact everyone was performing. Almost all the programs revolved around one theme, which was to flatter the "current emperor", that is, Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting directly above.

There was a play performed by an old man and a child. The old and the child played the roles of villagers, but Zhu Gaoxu did not understand part of the lyrics. When the old man sang loudly, "Now the emperor respects the heaven and follows the ancestors, an