Chapter 516: The Spring Festival is Different

I don't know how long later, Qin Feng and Namie Amuro's stomachs grumbled in unison.

"Poof!" Namie Amuro looked embarrassed, but she was secretly happy.

Qin Feng smiled.

"I'm hungry, but during the Chinese New Year, that's it. No matter what time it is, there are a lot of dishes in the refrigerator!" Qin Feng smiled and said, "Well, I'll show you what's in the kitchen!"

"Well, then I'll do it!" Namie Amuro smiled and nodded.

"Then you go over and wait for me first, and I'll change my clothes!" Qin Feng said.

You must know that this night, Qin Feng's hands were in the bed, and he didn't dare to come out. There is no way, there are two girls in my arms.

"Well, okay!" Namie Amuro grinned, went out and closed the door, Qin Feng let out a long breath.

At this time, the two girls were already asleep, lying on the bed like kittens, and they were not good.

Qin Feng got up, quietly got out of bed, and put on his clothes. But after thinking about it, he came back and put on his pajamas for Shen Manli. Otherwise, if you wake up, naked, and sleep with Ihanno, you don't know what will happen.

Of course, Qin Feng must admit that he also had a little bad intentions. Before this, he was full of wolf hearts, if he hadn't been disturbed by Namie Amuro, Qin Feng didn't know what he would do. At this moment, you should charge some interest.

Qin Feng must admit that his own squad leader has really developed. However, Qin Feng didn't dare to look at it more, for fear of waking up the second daughter.

After getting dressed, put the two on the pillow, turn off the light, and go out softly.

"You see, these dishes are all prepared at home during the Chinese New Year!" Qin Feng said with a smile, "This Spring Festival, there will be many relatives at home, and then we will prepare a lot of food, drink, and snacks." Occasionally, there will be a mahjong table at home, ready to play mahjong, poker or something!"

"It's so interesting!" said Namie Amuro with a grin, "We celebrate the New Year in Japan, although it is also very lively, but there are not so many people! And it's not the lunar calendar, we are the solar calendar!"

The Spring Festival of the Gregorian calendar! Qin Feng understands this. After all, having been in Japan for a while, I have a little bit of an understanding of some Japanese customs.

Actually, Japan celebrates the Spring Festival. As the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, some countries around China have been influenced by the customs of China, and they will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Spring Festival. Especially in Japan, before the Han Dynasty, Japan learned from China, mainly adopting the method of "inviting in", through the Chinese people who went to Japan to obtain advanced technological civilization. After the Han Dynasty, Japan began to send people to China to take the initiative to learn advanced culture. By the Tang Dynasty, the craze for learning from China in Japan was gradually rising.

Since the end of the 7th century, Japan has used the Chinese calendar and introduced all the festivals of China. Of course, the Spring Festival is no exception, and at the time of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Japanese New Year's habits are similar to those of China.

In the 19th century, however, things changed.

In Asia in the mid-19th century, Japan was in the Tokugawa shogunate, the last shogunate. The powerful Tokugawa shogunate imposed a "closed policy" on foreign missionaries, merchants, and civilians from entering Japan, allowing Japanese from abroad to return to Japan, and even prohibiting the manufacture of ships suitable for ocean voyages.

However, in some economically developed areas, the germ of capitalism appeared, which impacted the feudal natural economy and fundamentally shook the foundation of the shogunate's rule. Sensing that the old system was severely restricting their development, the merchants began to call for a reform of the political system and formed an alliance with the feudal princes, samurai, and grassroots peasants.

After a series of wars, under the command of Emperor Meiji, the Japanese people overthrew the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and established a constitutional monarchy. Subsequently, Emperor Meiji carried out a series of reform measures. One of these measures was the abolition of the Chinese New Year.

Was this because the Chinese government at that time, that is, the Manchu government was too ignorant and backward, and wanted to draw a line with the Manchu government, or was it because the Japanese government in the Meiji Restoration era felt that it was too powerful and wanted to draw a line with the past?

Of course not!

The reason is also very funny to say.

Before the Meiji Restoration, officials received monthly payments, but there was a leap month every few years in the lunar calendar, which was paid on a 13-month basis. At that time, the new Meiji government was facing modernization, which required huge sums of money and an empty treasury.

As a result, the Meiji government issued the "Edict on Changing the Calendar" on November 9, 1872 of the lunar calendar, deciding to abolish the solar calendar and promulgate the solar calendar, with the upcoming December 3 as January 1, 1873. As a result, the government has saved two months of fiscal expenditure, which has largely solved the government's financial difficulties.

Therefore, the Japanese authorities, in order to save money, revised the calendar. Not for any reason, but for money.

Of course, although the calendar has been modified and the Spring Festival is no longer celebrated, in modern times, most Japanese, on the day of the Lunar New Year, after work, will also find a Chinese restaurant to have dinner and celebrate the New Year together!

However, although there is no legal lunar Spring Festival, December 31 of the solar calendar is actually the Japanese New Year.

On New Year's Day, every family decorates their houses with pines and cypresses, and the night of December 31 is "New Year's Eve", and every family eats reunion mustard noodles on this night, because noodles represent longevity. On New Year's Eve, people wait at home or in the monastery for the arrival of 12 o'clock in the morning. This is the same as the Chinese people waiting to hear the New Year's bell, but the Japanese New Year's bell is unique.

As soon as 12 o'clock arrives, the bells are struck one hundred and eight times in temples all over Japan, and the heavy sound of the bells reverberates over the Japanese archipelago. After the "New Year's Eve Bell" rings, people have different wishes and go to the shrine and temple in an endless stream to worship the gods and Buddhas, and the next day they pay New Year's greetings to each other.

"Then let's have a pure Chinese Spring Festival!" Qin Feng said with a smile, "The dumplings we ate tonight mean reunion, but look, the refrigerator is full of vegetables!"

Qin Feng opened the refrigerator, and it was full of various Spring Festival dishes prepared at home.

At this time, there was no side-by-side refrigerator in China, although there were already in Europe and the United States, but there was no one in China. Qin Feng didn't bother to get it. Therefore, at home, I specially bought two double-door refrigerators and put them together, which can be regarded as a side-by-side refrigerator.

Inside, there are two refrigerators full of New Year's goods made at home. A wide variety of foods.

"I'll take a look, what's there!" Qin Feng looked.