The sunset hangs at the end of the plain, the fiery red sunset dyes half of the sky in the distance, and a flock of late South American geese slowly pass through the sunset, and the occasional low song echoes in the vast red sky.

Looking up at the scene along the Paraná River and at the end of the Pampas Plain, Lu Rongting and Wang Shizhen followed the boat under their feet and gradually disappeared into the sunset.

Bringing the old and the young, traveling far and wide to the South American continent, some common scenes in life can often evoke the memories of Chinese people's hometown.

In order to cherish their hometown and commemorate the memories of their early suffering, the Chinese people moved the traditional customs of their hometown to South America.

Just near the riverbank port where Lu Rongting and the others hurriedly left,

The people of seven or eight settlements put aside the controversy and jointly decided to designate the 15th day of the 11th lunar month as the day of the annual temple fair.

Temple fairs are the traditional customs of festival celebrations, usually each town will have different forms of temple fairs, street fairs, two towns that are relatively close, even if the dialect and cultural customs are the same, but the date of the temple fair, may be far apart.

After the outbreak of the Dingshu famine, the number of people in the provinces who boarded and migrated from the ports along the northern coast also accounted for a large proportion, because the source areas of immigrants are different, there are two or three thousand people in a settlement, and there may be one or two or two different customs and habits.

Pingquan County, Songzhou, a county seat under planning, ushered in the first temple fair festival after the relocation of the Chinese in the evening.

After a busy day in the wasteland allocated by the government, the Chinese women loosened the headscarves tied to their foreheads, changed into a coarse cloth short, put on new clothes purchased with surplus money, carefully put on the silver ornaments for dowry, and took the babbling children at home to follow their husbands, and the whole family went out together to watch the temple fair performances near the riverbank port, and at the same time purchased some items for adults and children.

Pingquan County has 13 migrant settlements under its jurisdiction, and eight of them are gathered together, and each settlement is negotiated to pay 30 Han Yuan, and 240 Han Yuan is enough to invite a troupe to sing and perform in the center of the county.

In the evening, in the center of Pingquan County, that is, near the coastal port, on a freshly leveled open space, a group of more than ten men and women of the opera troupe are building a stage, the troupe owner is outside to greet several county officials, and the martial artists and Hua Dan in the troupe are behind the stage, putting on makeup and rehearsing the upcoming opera program.

"Squad Leader Zhou, more than half of the people of Pingquan County have come to cheer you on, you have to show all your skills tonight."

"A few adults can rest assured that there are two new young Hua Dans recruited in the troupe, and their singing, reading, doing, and playing skills are first-class, and they promise not to disappoint the fathers and elders of Pingquan County."

"This is just right, if the performance of the opera troupe satisfies everyone, the county will make an extra sum of money, and according to today's price, please ask the Zhou class master and the pillars of the opera troupe to stay in Pingquan for one more day, and let the people in the county watch the opera performance again."

"Thank you for your love, it's just that the troupe took over the work of Chang'an City, starting from the day His Royal Highness ascended the throne, singing in Chang'an City for three days, I really can't find time to stay in Pingquan for one more day, and I ask a few adults to forgive me."

"Also, there are few local opera troupes, that is, in the past two years, some opera troupes have come from the Central Plains mainland one after another, and in a few days His Royal Highness ascended the throne and celebrated with the country.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han ascended the throne and called the emperor is a once-in-a-century great joy, although we were not treated by the government in the early years, and did not get the land, but when I received the notice to go to the performance, an adult surnamed Sun said, after His Royal Highness ascended the throne, all the local people are treated equally, whether it is a opera performance, juggling, or a craftsman who carves wood carving gadgets on the street, can get the land reissued by the government, I have been playing and singing for 20 years, laughing and lowering my eyebrows, and I am used to being a person, and people are middle-aged to pull up a troupe, I still want to find a decent way to maintain my life for my descendants and girls, they are still very young and can't live a life like me in a low voice. ”

"The situation has changed, and now it is different from before, a few years ago, the local area fought at two ends in three days, and the common people were worried every day that white Brazilians and white Argentines would fight, and men under the age of 50 in the settlements would conduct military training every day during the slack season, and they would also sleep with muskets when they slept, so as to prevent a sneak attack at night, and they would gather in time to welcome the emperor with muskets.

At that time, the local young and strong labor force was scarce, and the transportation capacity of ships coming and going from the South Seas and the mainland to South America every year was limited.

Now the conditions are good, after more than ten years of development, the people who immigrated in the early years have accumulated some money, and Argentina and Uruguay were wiped out by the army led by His Royal Highness the King of Han, and Brazil was divided into two countries, and our Han country is one of the largest countries in South America.

The country is stable, even if there is another war, Brazil and Chile are afraid of being defeated by our army, and the people have spare money in hand, so they don't have to worry about the land distributed by the government being taken back by the whites, and they are slowly in the mood to listen to opera performances, or spend more money to buy clothes, jewelry and other items. ”

Compared with the model of collective organization during the Peruvian uprising, from the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the Argentine War, the Han State was essentially a military-oriented military-industrial complex system with the integration of economic, agricultural and industrial development, just like a magnified military machine, with agriculture, industry, and economy each responsible for their own responsibilities, and all with military construction and improving the overall combat effectiveness of the army as the primary goal.

The eleven years of military collectivization maximized the war potential of the homeland, but at the same time deprived the common people of other recreational and recreational activities other than survival, either going to the construction site every day for collective labor or being gathered for military training, and the women were not idle, they had to be busy taking care of the land allocated by the government, as well as spinning and weaving cloth, raising cattle and sheep, and other labor.

Compared with the life of starvation in the mainland area, which is not full of food and may starve to death if you slack off a little, the life in South America is much better, but decades of boring and high-intensity work will also consume the energy of the people and reduce their support for the government. Maintaining the appropriate vitality of society is undoubtedly more conducive to the healthy development of society.

The traditional entertainment and pastime industries are gradually recovering.

The spacious open space is lined with temporary stalls selling jewelry, sugar gourds, small wooden carving toys, tables and chairs, and other items.

The adults held the children of one or two years old, some accompanied the children to stare at the shadow puppets, listened to the sound of the children's giggling and laughing, and some tasted the wine and sweet potato wine made by the Chinese people, nodded and praised, bought eight or nine catties and stored them aside, waiting to bring them when they went back.

At first, Chinese people from different regions also selected various foods to take home for adults and children to taste according to their own preferences. The sky is getting dark, and the riverside is brightly lit,

The county officials and the young men who were in charge of helping put the boiled whole pigs, cows, sheep and seasonal fruits in a long row, and began to pay tribute to the gods and ancestors, praying for the blessings of the gods and ancestors......

The price of grain and livestock in the local area is low, and every Chinese family generally raises dozens to hundreds of cattle and sheep, and the cattle and horses left by the Spaniards on the Pampas savannah hundreds of years ago have transformed into bison and wild horses.

If there were young men who had been discharged from the army in the newly relocated Chinese families, seven or eight people would gather together and often round up many bison. Because of the low cost of obtaining horses, cattle and sheep, Pingquan County held temple fairs, and the sacrifices to the gods and ancestors were also extraordinarily rich, and eight or nine boiled cattle and sheep and other sacrifices, when the worship ceremony was completed, all of them were pushed into the Paraná River, nominally to the river gods and ancestors, but in fact the large and small fish and shrimp in the river were cheaper.