Chapter 163: The Folk Floats Parade Through the Street
After the five friends had decided on their development plans, they left the rest to their houseboys.
By the standards of this time and space, they are all middle-aged...... But in the eyes of the five friends, they still need some experience.
The character, talents, and shortcomings of every housebrat's are in their hearts, and they should be used to maximize their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
New Year's Day in 1283 was the national day of the Confederation Empire, and the entire Empire had a three-day holiday.
As mentioned earlier, the Federal Empire implements the Gregorian calendar, and the method they promote is to sell the Gregorian calendar heads, which is the kind of ...... that tear one a day It also indicates the solar terms and lunar calendar, which can be converted to the solar calendar.
In fact, on the one hand, it is convenient for them to understand the holidays and dates, and on the other hand, it is also related to the information they bring.
Song Ziqiang once wanted to use the Badao River as the prime meridian, which almost made Wu Dapeng laugh to death, I will go, you will change the latitude and longitude, and the major mineral deposits we brought will be finished...... Modify a little bit that is a gap of tens of kilometers, you are purely finding fault with yourself!
In this way, the National Day of the Federal Empire, or what they call the New Year, seems strange to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, which is understandable considering that Liuqiu Island was originally developed by a group of outsiders.
Some unscrupulous people in the Great Song Dynasty took advantage of piracy and changed the head of the solar calendar to the head of the lunar calendar, mainly based on the lunar calendar, and also printed the year name of the official family of the Great Song Dynasty...... The so-called solar calendar is printed in a font that is several sizes smaller, but it can also be converted.
Zhang Anguo and Jing Jing took advantage of the three-day holiday of the National Day to arrange a marriage for his three friends.
The woman was quietly and carefully found, they were all unmarried girls in their twenties, and they had paid single taxes for two or three years...... They are all very good in terms of personal conditions, and they fully accept the new culture on the island of Liuqiu, and when they look back, they don't look down on the children of the rich families of the Great Song Dynasty, thinking that they are all dirty guys, except for having money and money, they can't talk about a few useless poems, and they can't do anything else......
Well, when women's economic status increases, their vision will be incredible...... This seems to be for Zhang Anguo's three friends!
Queen Quiet went to them one by one and interviewed them one by one, and at first the three girls were a little apprehensive, even though Queen Quiet had always had an excellent reputation among women throughout the Empire...... They saw a middle-aged woman who was a queen!
However, as they slowly interacted, they sensed the kindness of Queen Quiet, and found that she was actually a very peaceful person, so they began to talk about everything.
The Quiet Queen brings out three friends for them to consider...... In fact, in this time and space, a man is not older than a woman by twenty years, and it is far from shocking the world.
The point is that Queen Quiet does not want and will not use coercion.
The three girls agreed without hesitation...... The reason is very simple, they themselves also have a strong sense of crisis, and the pain of not being high or low is just like the pain of a man drinking alcohol and not being able to drink up.
The three friends of the king and the queen, and they all know, are like the king's family, and they are as tall and strong as the king and queen...... What about a forty-year-old man!
The Great Song Dynasty originally gave women great freedom, and the Federal Empire gave women economic status and the right to choose...... Their original small grievances about the king and queen's stipulation that single men and women should pay a single tax have long since disappeared!
When Wu Dapeng heard about this, he remained silent and began to pretend to be forced, saying, "Is it okay to marry the young?" ”
Song Ziqiang glanced at him and said, "Don't let me tell me about your support for a female college student...... You can really do it......"
Wu Dapeng's old face turned red and said, "That's just an idea, and it hasn't become a fact yet!" ”
Wan Shida patted the two of them and said, "Forget it, forget it, the people who came forward quietly must have been voluntarily by them...... In the future, just be considerate of the little girls. ”
If there is really a big difference in age, a kind middle-aged man will still care for his little wife as a daughter.
A kind, middle-aged man will know if he made an emotional mistake when he was younger...... Just gave a chance to make amends.
They did the marriage themselves, and they didn't even convene the houseboys, which was a completely private matter.
There was no military parade on National Day in 1283...... But the civil society has its own organization.
Several societies that did not participate in the parade last year were supposed to sign up for it this year, but the king did not arrange it...... They arranged it themselves.
The leaders of several clubs discussed and took this opportunity to show off.
The genes of the Great Song Dynasty people still exist...... They also modified the four-wheeled carriage themselves, made more than a dozen floats, which were filled with flowers, and invited hundreds of women to perform on the floats!
In fact, as early as the era of the Han Dynasty, there was a float show during the Spring Festival.
The float was loaded with flowers and ten boys and girls, dressed in various colours, playing among the flowers...... Some of them wore official uniforms, some wore servants, horsemen costumes, and together they played the role of officials going out on patrol and the officers sounding gongs to open the way, and the battle was both majestic, interesting, and auspicious.
These processions present a jubilant scene of the New Year's Festival.
In the Great Song Dynasty, there were more Qinglou female dancers on the floats.
In order to increase their popularity, some of the wind and flower places in those Goolan tile houses often send their best female dancers to scratch their heads on the floats...... Of course, other wind and flower venues also have to compete for the limelight, everyone sends their own best products to compete for beauty, to see whose float is more beautiful, whose female singer is more beautiful, more can sing, more music, more can dance!
This kind of competition is really cheap for the people, without spending anything on themselves, who doesn't want to see the scene of beautiful women gathering and dedicating stunts?!
The boys and girls retreated, and they could only pull the Taiping elephant chariot, while others held eight auspicious lanterns, lion lanterns, elephant lanterns, dragon lanterns, phoenix lanterns and goldfish lanterns, etc., followed by a column of dragon dances, during which there may be bands playing suona, gongs and cymbals, and drumming.
There are also some children who will hold the "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" card, which echoes the "Changchun Tongqing" card held by the boy in the center of the float...... This kind of street float will attract countless people to applaud along the street, meet generous people, and will also sprinkle copper coins on them, let them go crazy, and attract countless people to laugh.
The 1283 National Day Float Parade was organized by the Wind Flower Venue on Liuqiu Island and the major associations themselves...... Some people give out money, some people go out of floats, some people go out of the team.
The Bow and Arrow Society, the Steel Sword Society, the Spear Society, the Arquebus Society, and even the Imperial Horse Society and the Harpoon Society also came to join in the fun...... They imitated the appearance of the last military parade, lined up neatly, held their chests and stomachs, and tried to get out of the momentum!
However, they can only be regarded as supporting roles, and people crane their necks to look at the floats behind their line, which are full of beautiful women......
Those beauties were either dressed in brocade or thin in warp, and they danced their waists and stretched their throats...... Floats passed by, and people's eyes were glazed.
Only the photographers on the side of the road are very sober, they take every photo carefully, and then they can pick out the best photos, wash them into large photos, and hang them in their photo studios for publicity.
This custom of parading the streets with floats to celebrate the National Day later spread around the world...... It became a kind of carnival.