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Legend of the Traveler in the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
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"Congratulations, Happy New Year!" It was the first day of the new year in the seventh year of Tianbao of the Great Tang Dynasty. Sixty miles away from Chang'an, a mountain village, there is a family, the master surnamed Shi, name Yiru, had won the scholar in the twenty-second year of the new year, but did not want to serve as an official in the imperial court, before reaching middle age, returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, the townspeople respect him as a learned gentleman, early in the morning to give him New Year's greetings. He followed the custom and the townspeople to congratulate each other, after the guests, but shook his head and sighed: "such a world, what is the joy of it?"