At Kate's house, Armand, who is the mayor of the town, tells the curious Lu Wenbin about the history of Dietford.

The origin of the Dietfort townspeople's self-proclaimed Chinese is no longer known, and historians have no clue, but everyone knows that the town has been celebrating the Chinese New Year since 1928.

In the past, I couldn't figure out the Chinese lunar festival, so we discussed and chose a date to celebrate the New Year in February.

Now that international standards and information flow are known, the specific dates of China's Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival are known, and the dates of the Chinese New Year for the residents of Dietfort are synchronized with China.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the townspeople of Dietfort are also popular to eat reunion dinners, set off fireworks after 24 o'clock in the morning, give red envelopes to children to press the New Year's money, eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, and so on.

From the first day of the Lunar New Year, there is also a five-day town-wide parade and carnival, in which the townspeople dress up in Chinese clothes and participate in the carnival, known as the "Chinese Carnival in Bavaria".

At that time, there will be a lot of European tourists and overseas Chinese from other places to visit, and it has already turned from local folk activities into the form of tourism festivals.

Before the parade began, the townspeople would choose a local man of high moral standing to be the emperor, and the mayor of the town, Armand, would have to be demoted to the emperor's minister, and he would be under the emperor's command.

You also have to choose queens, concubines, princes, princesses, and so on.

Then everyone carried the emperor in eight sedan chairs to start the whole town parade, pray, and sing the Bavarian Chinese national anthem, and there were dragon dances, lion dances, stilt walking, Peking Opera performances and so on.

After being cultivated, disseminated, and inherited from generation to generation, the townspeople have an innate good impression of China.

This is a European town where all the people worship China, yearn for China, and make Chinese the official language.

If it were Chinese exquisite, refined, and refined, Lu Wenbin would feel disgusted, despised and looked down upon, but among the Europeans, Lu Wenbin would only feel strong joy.

Of course, judging from what Lu Wenbin has seen and heard, the residents of this town are simply fond of Chinese culture, and there are no political issues involved, and they are not as disgusting as the elite foreigners in China.

This is probably why the German government did not restrict Dietfort from making Chinese the official language of the town, because it was only a local folk hobby and did not involve political interests.

Lu Wenbin also understands why Kate's dream since childhood was to find a Chinese boyfriend and even marry a Chinese, and her parents are also quite accepting of Lu Wenbin's daughter's Chinese boyfriend.

Of course, the biggest possibility is because of Lu Wenbin's current fame, income, height, appearance, etc.

If Kate had found a boyfriend in his forties and fifties, with a beer belly and a humble income, Armand and Mary would have beaten each other out.

At lunch, the Kate family really used chopsticks, including Milo, which were extremely slippery, no different from Chinese.

After lunch and a short lunch break, in the afternoon, Kate and Milo took Lu Wenbin to visit the town.

Naturally, Lu Wenbin's identity was also recognized by the fans in the town.

Originally, this is a small town in Bavaria near Munich, and most of the fans in the town like Bayern Munich, and Hoffenheim should be considered a rival for Bayern this season.

But because of Lu Wenbin's Chinese identity, not only was he not hostile to these Bayern fans, but everyone also ran over to take photos with him, ask for autographs, and so on.

When Milo proudly announced that Lu Wenbin was his sister's boyfriend and Dietford's son-in-law, several people even changed their camp on the spot and expressed their support for Lu Wenbin and Hoffenheim.

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After returning from shopping, Lu Wenbin made a phone call to his parents to greet the New Year and told them what he had seen and heard in Dietford.

Hearing that their son's girlfriend Kate's family was celebrating the Chinese New Year, Lu Chongxin and his wife were also very surprised for a while, asked questions for a long time, and chatted with Kate for a while before hanging up the phone.

In the evening, Kate's family had a reunion dinner, and Lu Wenbin also cooked and helped prepare simple Chinese dishes such as two scrambled eggs with tomatoes and stir-fried shredded potatoes.

If it's too hard, he won't.

Then, when it comes to eating, there is a hodgepodge of Chinese and Western food on the table.

However, no one cares about the dishes, everyone cares about the atmosphere of the New Year.

After eating the reunion dinner and cleaning up, I started to prepare the dumplings for the next day.

Because I have to participate in the parade and carnival the next day, I may not have time to make dumplings, so Kate's family usually wraps the dumplings and puts them in the refrigerator the first day, and the next day the parade carnival is hungry and goes home to cook and eat.

However, when making dumpling fillings, he almost made Lu Wenbin laugh.

Probably because she didn't understand the Chinese dumpling recipe, Kate's mother, Mary, prepared to wrap garlic and German sausages in it.

Although Lu Wenbin is not very good at cooking, he usually knows a little bit about watching his mother make dumplings.

Therefore, Lu Wenbin chopped the fat and thin pork into minced meat, plus an appropriate amount of ginger and garlic foam, sesame oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, eggs, green onions and other condiments, and made meat filling and handed it to Kate's mother and daughter to make dumplings.

After the dumplings were ready, at around 23 o'clock in the evening, everyone cooked a few suppers, and Kate's family shouted that they were delicious, saying that they had finally tasted authentic Chinese dumplings.

After 24 o'clock in the evening, Milo took out a few boxes of fireworks that might have been purchased in a Chinese store, and the family ran to the open space in front of the villa and set them off.

At this time, the whole town is lit up with fireworks that light up the night sky, and the sound of crackling firecrackers resounds throughout the town, and a New Year's celebration atmosphere permeates the town.

After the fireworks and everyone greeted each other, Lu Wenbin took out a big red envelope and handed it to Milo, who was really excited and liked Lu Wenbin's brother-in-law even more.

Celebrate the New Year until just after one o'clock in the morning, when the family falls asleep.

Early the next morning, Lu Wenbin was still in a daze when he was woken up by the sound of gongs and drums beating outside.

Lu Wenbin opened his eyes, only to find that Kate was already dressing up.

"Get up quickly, Mommy's dumplings are going to be cooked, and after eating the dumplings, let's go to the parade and carnival!" Kate excitedly shouted to Lu Wenbin.

Lu Wenbin was in good spirits and didn't fall asleep immediately.

Lu Wenbin is still very interested in the New Year's carnival in this European town.

When he was dressing and washing, and went downstairs to eat dumplings for breakfast, Lu Wenbin received New Year's calls from the club's chairman, coaches, and teammates, and was very pleasantly surprised.

Teammates also told Lu Wenbin that the club's official website sent a congratulatory letter to congratulate him on a happy New Year, and many fans left messages to wish him coming.

Lu Wenbin used Kate's computer to log on to the club's official website to take a look, and sure enough, there was a congratulatory letter in the name of the club to congratulate Lu Wenbin on a happy Chinese New Year.

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Dieterford's Bavarian Chinese Carnival will take place for five days, and Lu Wenbin will return to the club to participate in the competition, so he and Kate naturally will not be able to stay that long.

On the day of the Spring Festival, Lu Wenbin followed Kate to see the emperor, concubines, officials, soldiers, palanquin bearers, etc., listened to the emperor's blessings, watched dragon dances, lion dances, Peking Opera, stilts and other performances, and signed autographs and group photos with fans and overseas Chinese among the tourists who came to see the Bavarian Chinese Carnival, and was interviewed by several reporters who heard the news.

After playing until the afternoon and eating another meal of dumplings, Lu Wenbin and Kate drove back to Rhine Neckar County with the blessing of Armand and his wife.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, although I could not spend it at home in China due to work, I was also very happy.

What Dietfort saw and heard completely diluted Lu Wenbin's homesickness.

Next, it's time to pack up your emotions and go all out to hit the Bundesliga championship or even the treble!

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