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This time, Fan went to Shanghai without illness. I still met a lot of people.

Seeing that it is already Christmas, and it is New Year's Day soon, the atmosphere here is also very strong, due to the rendering of the legend of the end of 199, as well as the unpredictable expectations for the future of the new millennium, and even the impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis that has just passed, many young people are even more confused about the unpredictability of the future.

In this case, what will happen to your future is always the most worrying thing, because as Shanghai, which is more Westernized, there are indeed many young people who are accustomed to using foreign festivals such as Christmas to vent their emotions.

Fan Wuxian didn't have much interest in this kind of thing, but Shen Ying had spent a lot of time overseas, especially in Europe, where she had traveled and studied for several years, so she was more interested in this kind of Western festival, and insisted on taking him along to listen to the Christmas bells.

"What's so nice about this thing?" Fan Wuxian was dragged by Shen Ying and drove his Bugatti Veyron sports car to the outside of one of the most famous Catholic churches near Xujiahui, where he parked.

Xujiahui Catholic Church is a medieval Gothic building, with a long cross plan, facing east, and bell towers on both sides, towering into the sky. At this time, many small sparkling lights had been pulled outside the walls of the church. There are also a lot of young men and women who come here with their friends to join in the fun, and it is very lively.

Xujiahui Catholic Church is the first Catholic church in Shanghai after the Opium War, and there are 64 pillars carved from Jinshan stone in Suzhou, each of which is composed of ten small columns. The floor is paved with square bricks, and the middle passage is paved with tiles. The doors and windows are Gothic pointed arches, inlaid with stained glass, inlaid with motifs and statues of gods.

There are 19 altars in the church, and the large altar in the middle was transported from Paris on Easter in 1919, which has high religious and artistic value, and can accommodate 2,500 people to celebrate mass at the same time.

The exterior of the church is typical of the European Middle Ages Gothic, with a double-spired masonry structure, the ridge of the church is 18 meters high, the bell tower is about 60 meters high, and the two crosses on the spire reach into the sky. There is also a cross on the temple, which looks a bit like a roulette wheel, implying that life is just like a roulette wheel.

In the center of the hall is a plate-shaped relief, intricate and ornate, which looks very much like the shape of a Roman clock from a distance, and the external structure is made of red bricks, and the roof is paved with graphite tiles, decorated with many stone carvings of the Son and God, pure and peaceful.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Xujiahui Catholic Church was severely damaged, including the removal of the two spires of the cross and the large pipe organ, the church was used as a warehouse, and religious activities were suspended. It was not until Christmas 1982 that the steeple cross was restored. The Gothic style of the cathedral is recreated.

"There are hundreds of churches in Shanghai, right?" Fan Wuxian vaguely remembered where he seemed to have seen the relevant introduction, so he said a word to Shen Ying who walked out of the car.

"Probably, I don't know, supposedly there should be." Shen Ying is not very clear.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi collaborated with Western Catholic missionaries on astronomy, and with the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in translating the Geometric Originals. He was later baptized in Nanjing and became a Catholic.

Later, Xu Guangqi returned to Shanghai to defend the system, because he was the most famous person in Shanghai at that time, so the number of Catholics in Shanghai increased dramatically with Xu Guangqi. In the early years of the Apocalypse, believers in Shanghai built a Catholic church near Xu Guangqi's house, and later the emperor gave a plaque to hang it on the church.

However, during the Manchu Dynasty, there was a trend of extermination, and it was not until after the Opium War that these churches were forced to be restored.

After that, the wind of building churches could not be resisted, churches of various denominations were constantly built, and more and more missionaries were sent to Shanghai, becoming the largest foreign religious base in the whole of China.

"Have you ever thought of giving me a Christmas present?" Shen Ying suddenly asked Fan Wuxian, who was leaning on the body.

"Huh?" Fan Wuxian scratched his head, Xindao has been busy recently, but he forgot about it.

For Shen Ying, he was naturally embarrassed to say confidently, I have never had a foreigner's festival. Naturally, I won't prepare any egg gifts, in fact, in the early years, the two of them didn't spend Christmas together, and if she was perfunctory, I was afraid it would only make her sad.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't think about this, there have been too many things recently, which has filled my head with all kinds of distractions-" Fan Wuxian said to Shen Ying very apologetically.

"It's okay, at least you didn't deal with me with irresponsible words." Shen Ying didn't seem to be angry, just smiled and said, "Actually, I also know that you've been busy with big things recently. ”

Fan Wuxi hugged Shen Ying in his arms apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, in fact, for me, you are my most valuable asset, and if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have any reason to run around for other things." ”

"Please, if you say something fresh, this kind of emphasis has been overused by Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas." Shen Ying made an unbearable expression, and then turned on a whole face, and said with some reminiscence, "In the past few years in Germany, every late autumn, before the leaves of the oak tree behind the courtyard where I lived have not yet fallen, invitations to Christmas parties and greeting cards have come one after another. I'm not a Christian and I don't believe in a messian, but my classmates are very passionate about it, and whether they believe in Jesus or not, as long as they live in the West, there are very few people who don't celebrate Christmas. Christmas is not just a religious celebration. It is also a festival for family reunions. Whenever I see the greetings of peace and goodwill on the Christmas card, I think of our Spring Festival couplets, the peace of the country and the people, and the reunion of the family. ”

Fan Wuxi nodded, although he was only this kind of foreign festival, it didn't mean that he didn't know that this kind of pure festival consumption that had gradually spread in the mainland.

Nowadays, as China gradually goes global, all kinds of imported goods and foreign festivals have also begun to become popular, in addition to some changes in beliefs, more cities provide immeasurable business opportunities for operators.

Christmas can't be called Christmas without gifts, Santa Claus driving a sleigh to give gifts to children, and family and friends exchanging gifts are a way to convey love.

Fan Wuxian still remembers when he was a child when he got the New Year's money during the Spring Festival every year, he always wondered if his parents who had worked hard for a year would also receive gifts? Fortunately, after Fan was reborn without illness, the Fan family has never been embarrassed because of the lack of superior conditions for material life, on the contrary, every year during the New Year's holiday, the tradition of the Fan family is to allocate some funds to help those who need help the most.

This way of thinking that takes into account the world also makes the reputation of the Fan family very good, just like in the past, the eldest sister Fan Ting's favorite thing to do was to extort a little benefit from her rich brother Fan Wuxi, but her dedication to donating to education or other public welfare undertakings will definitely make the so-called ten richest Chinese people dumbfounded.

The activities on the side of the church had not yet begun, so Fan Wuxian joined Shen Ying. Walking hand in hand on the pedestrian street, watching the shops on both sides are lit up, many of the shops are placed outside the Christmas tree, the lights are shining, not you can see the promotion staff dressed up as Santa Claus, or to distribute small gifts to passers-by, or to engage in some promotional activities, it is very lively.

Among passers-by, you can also see many kinds of foreigners, some alone and some together. They all looked very happy.

In recent years, China, which is gradually becoming wealthy, has also become one of the favorite countries for foreigners, whether they are working at home or abroad, many people like to travel to the mainland before Christmas, so that the purchase of gifts will save worry, effort, time and money. After all, the cost performance of mainland products is too favorable, attracting countless foreigners.

When the two of them passed by a very exquisitely decorated boutique, they found that although there were not many customers inside, most of them were foreigners, and they looked carefully through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows to see that this was a silk lingerie store.

For more than 2,000 years, Chinese silk has been regarded as the best in the West, and there was even a time when silk was equivalent to gold. To this day, silk is still very popular, solemn and gorgeous silk dressing gowns for men, and sexy and smooth silk underwear for women, which is indeed very popular.

Around Christmas can be said to be the Olympics for consumers, and the profits they bring to merchants are usually 20% of the annual profits, and some even as high as 40%. For example, this year's Christmas consumption in the UK is expected to be 20 billion pounds, equivalent to 260 billion yuan, which is quite a considerable amount.

According to figures obtained by the intelligence and research department of Fan's Investment Group, the output value of Christmas trees and other gifts exported overseas by the mainland alone this year has exceeded one billion US dollars, and this number continues to rise.

The two of them walked in and took a closer look, only to know that this store is actually a real authentic Suzhou silk, but the overall packaging of the store is more in line with the European style of foreigners, which looks a little special.

"That's okay, I'll give you a set of silk underwear!" Fan Wuxi suddenly saw a set of silk underwear on the model on the opposite side, and immediately said to Shen Ying very excitedly.

"Hooligans—" Shen Ying glanced at the underwear and immediately said with a little flushed face.

It should be said that the workmanship and texture of the silk underwear are excellent, but the shape is a little special, after all, some underwear designs in order to increase the interest of the bed, in addition to being very popular in Japan at this time, are still very rare to be sold openly in China.

Fan Wuxi was very interested, and began to think about it in his heart. How many sets should I buy?

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