Chapter 449: Autumn Evening One
Late at night, before going to bed, she received a call from a classmate!
"Jessie, is there any arrangement for Autumn Eve?"
"Hmm...... Yes. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Xiuyan nodded and replied.
"Huh??" The classmates over there were disappointed, "Angela, they're going to have a party on the eve of the fall, and I heard that Parker promised to go, Jessie, you know...... Well, I've been looking for a chance to get to know him, but I'm ......"
Without waiting for her friend to finish speaking, Xiuyan knew her plan, nothing more than hoping that she would also participate, so that she could have an excuse.
Most of the friends who can play with her are from the United States or Canada, and they have already been cultivated into party animals by the environment over there, and they can have a party at any opportunity, and the school doesn't care about them, so Jessica is not surprised that someone hosted a party on Autumn Eve, although she basically didn't participate in it after An Yuxi returned to China.
She hesitated, shook her head, and said, "But...... Julie, I'm going to spend the holidays with Oppa and them that day. ”
"Oh, it's okay to celebrate the festival at any time, you are together every day, it must be okay to delay a day!" Julie hurriedly shouted, and then whispered, "Jessie, help, we are the best sisters, can you bear to see me miss the opportunity to meet Parker again?" Jessie, please......"
Listening to the plea on the other end of the phone, she wanted to refuse ruthlessly, but in the end, she agreed with a wry smile.
Slowly hanging up the phone in the joyful thanks of her friend, lying on the bed alone, listening to the silence in the bedroom, listening to the crisp voice of the little crystal coming from next door outside the bedroom, she turned over and faced the darkness.
I'm helping others, who can help me?
Closing her eyes, she sighed.
Don't think about these yet.
……
The red maple leaves are falling in a swirl, and the autumn evening is coming soon.
On this morning, the Zheng sisters were dressed in festive costumes, like two princesses, and An Yuxi took the two of them to another manor near Gyeonggi first.
This manor is at the foot of a green mountain, there is a small river to pass, a strip of water, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, there is a small village nearby, a small bridge and flowing water, a good group of indisputable, paradise scene.
It is a folk village where every family celebrates the festival with a traditional hanbok and holds a festival every time they visit.
Instead of breaking the tranquility of the village, the vehicles from afar stopped at a sun-and-valley flat not far from the village, where many private cars had been parked, and it seemed that the young people who had gone out of the village had returned for the holidays.
For Koreans who respect tradition, the "Chuseok Festival" is no less valued in Korea than the Spring Festival. Every year during the "Mid-Autumn Festival" holiday, South Korea will stage a spectacular scene of "ethnic migration", just like China's Spring Festival. Train and bus tickets are hard to buy, and many people drive back to their hometowns by private cars, so traffic jams on the highway are very serious.
Waiting here is An Yuxi and the others are a carriage, and An Yuxi, the person who drove the car, has seen a pure white bantam horse pulling the cart, and behind it is a quaint and atmospheric carriage, just like the carriage of the ancient nobles......
Arriving at the manor, you have to pass through the village, the carriage walks over the bluestone slabs, and the only sound in your ears is the "crunch" of the wheels and the sound of the horses kicking the ground.
This is a very novel experience for the two girls, the little girl lifted the curtain and looked outside, all of them are wooden hanoks, clean and quaint bluestone roads witness the vicissitudes of history here, there are many aunts sitting in front of the door while chatting, while making food for the festival, I saw the carriage from afar and looked at it in surprise, and saw a cute little girl at the window and smiled kindly at her.
It's very simple.
The traffic is strange, the sound of chickens and dogs is heard, and there are already curling smoke rising, all of which give people a feeling of returning to the basics.
The festive atmosphere here is strong, and it seems that traditional festivals are very important, with two new red lanterns hanging under the eaves in front of each house, and everyone's face is filled with joyful smiles.
In addition to family reunions, the "Mid-Autumn Festival" in South Korea also has the custom of worshipping ancestors and provincial tombs. The festival of the Korean Mid-Autumn Festival is very grand and cumbersome. On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family gets up very early in the morning, men, women and children change into new clothes, and hold the Mid-Autumn Festival "tea ceremony" (i.e., sacrifice) to remember the kindness of their parents and ancestors; The provincial tomb is similar to the tomb sweeping of the Qingming Festival in China, which is generally to go to the ancestral grave on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival to cut grass and pay tribute to the filial piety. Of course, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in South Korea, moon viewing activities are also indispensable.
According to custom, in the early morning of autumn evening, every household in Korea will put up new grains, fruit wine, muffins, taro soup and all kinds of fruits to worship their ancestors. In Korea, the eldest son traditionally inherits the orthodoxy of the family, so when worshipping ancestors in autumn, brothers go to the eldest brother's house to worship their ancestors. At the beginning of the festival, the men stand respectfully at the table, and the eldest son of the officiating family opens the door of the house, which means that the ancestors are invited into the house. Then return to the sacrificial table, burn incense, offer flowers and wine, and lead the family members to prostrate. When the ancestors were enjoying the offerings, the officiating priest would tell the family about the glorious deeds of the ancestors, and then ask the ancestors if they had finished the offerings. After the ceremony, the celebrant then leads the family members to bow to the ancestors and send them off. After the ancestor worship ceremony, the adults drink the sacrificial wine and then start to eat the reunion breakfast.
In addition to worshipping ancestors, there is also the custom of sweeping tombs on the autumn evening, which is generally held one or two days before the autumn evening, and in modern times, it is mostly held on the same day. Because the ancestral graves of Koreans are generally located on the mountain, the ancestral grave is called "Sangsan". "Going up the mountain" in autumn is the most important event of the year, even if there is a big event, it cannot be delayed.
For such a big family as the Han family, with many side branches and a family that attaches great importance to tradition and inheritance, it is even more so, Old Man Han took Han Shengmei, An's father and An's mother to participate in the sacrifice, and after eating the reunion dinner, he came to the manor from the ancestral house for reunion, and An Yuxi did not go to the ancestral house.
An Yuxi's arrival with the two girls made the old man smile from ear to ear, his orange peel-like face wrinkled into a blooming chrysanthemum, and he generously gave a gift, and Han Shengmei also gave each of the two little girls a beautiful new dress, to be precise, Hanfu.
The style is a straight collar placket, the armpits are open to the crotch, the waist is tied with a silk tie, the lower length is over the knee, there are two colors, one is water red, the other is water blue, embroidered with moire and cherry blossom patterns, it is very beautiful, and it is completely like a work of art.
The two girls were so happy, at least no one didn't like the beautiful new clothes, and they couldn't wait to change into them.
When he came out, he tied a yellow palace silk (tao first sound) around his waist, a rope in the middle, a jade pendant and a red Chinese knot at both ends, and a long tassel hanging down at the end.
Xiao Jing is long hair, pulled into a good-looking cloud temples, with a hosta inserted on it, walking out with a shelf, demure and elegant, gentle and lovely, just like a lady who came out of a classical painting.
It's a pity that Xiuyan now has shoulder-length short hair and is not qualified for a hairstyle that can wear hairpins.
Sure enough, "people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles", the beauty of the two has its own merits, and the three men nodded again and again, and then the Han sisters came out, which is a different scenery......