[Ran^Text^Library] Catherine went on to talk to Li Chuanfeng about the history and culture of New Orleans: "New Orleans, Louisiana" is the first acronym of "nola", and the people of New Orleans affectionately call their beloved city "Nola". Happy? Wen? The novel www.lwxs520.com and the most distinctive city on the American continent is indeed like a unique person, with its own unique personality, temperament, spiritual outlook, character and soul. Fugue says in The Hunt for Pleasure that the name "Louisiana" comes from Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of the Bourbons, and that New Orleans is named after the Duke of Orleans, the regent of Louis XV. "It's strange that the feminine adjective is used in front of the male." And the root of this fallacy is that "at the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the feminine malaise prevailed among the French aristocracy, the old duke of Orleans was famous for his hobby of grease and rice, and anti-feminine". New Orleans is destined to be a contradictory unity. The name says "new", but the temperament is old; Nicknamed "The Great Happy", but in the past two hundred and two years on the mainland of the United States, he has experienced the vicissitudes of the world, and he has tasted many more tears than laughter. In 1718, under the guidance of the Indian tribes, the French settled in the only highlands near the mouth of the Mississippi River, and the first old town of New Orleans was the French Quarter by the river. The first inhabitants of the port were rather unruly, oarsmen, hunters, gold diggers, cleaners, and women, all prostitutes. Despite the influx of nuns, the wild and uninhibited character of New Orleans from the beginning has taken root in this land, coupled with the poverty and luxury of the French court from the top down, New Orleans has become the most extravagant and corrupt North American colony of the French nouveau riche. At that time, Britain's colonial power was gradually expanding on the North American continent, and the French government decided to join forces with Spain in order to contain Britain. On November 3, 1762, the "Treaty of Fontainebleau" secretly handed over New Orleans to Spain as a political gift, and the poor and happy New Orleans remained in the dark. Three years after the signing of the agreement, the French and Germans in the colonies insisted on restoring Louis XV's former glory, and finally staged a peaceful coup d'état in 1768, driving the Spanish governor back to his old nest. Spain sent a new governor to quell the rebellion, held a night banquet, arrested a number of stalwarts in the peaceful coup d'état, and shot five people, and spilled blood on the parade ground. From then on, the Spanish colonial era in New Orleans officially began. The outbreak of the French Revolution ended the rule of the Bourbons, and the relationship between France and Spain deteriorated after the powerful Napoleon came to power, and Spain's influence in North America gradually declined, and finally New Orleans was forced to be returned to France in 1801. Now the French can raise their eyebrows, but during the 40 years of Spanish rule in New Orleans, the French Quarter was burned to the ground, and the entire old city was burned to the ground, and the French style was gone. Today, despite the beautiful name of the French Quarter, most of the old houses are in the Spanish architectural style, and only the flamboyant and luxurious and exquisite life attitude of the French has taken deep root in New Orleans with time, giving birth to the evil spirit and the flower of sin, watching the changes of the wind and clouds, and turning a cold eye to the vicissitudes of the world. A few years after Napoleon's repossession of New Orleans, he faced the threat of an "anti-French coalition" led by the British, and the Haitian Revolution made Napoleon's plan to conquer the New World of the Caribbean fail, and Napoleon, who was desperate for funds, sold the entire Louisiana colony and New Orleans to the United States at a low price in 1803. Since then, the Northerners have flocked to it. The French looked down on these "uncivilized" American peasants, and considered them vulgar, and forbade them to live in the French Quarter, and the Yankees had to reclaim the land outside the city, which is where the Lower Garden District and the Upper Town are today. At the same time as the American Northerners poured into New Orleans, the Creole aristocracy, who fled in a hurry after the Haitian Revolution, also came to this treasure land that was culturally closest to the customs of South America and the Caribbean island countries, and quickly became the new Orleans nouveau riche, settling down in the "closest place to the United States". No matter how many times it changes hands, there is always singing in the old town, and the backyard flowers reverberate on the lazy Mississippi River, and Nora is singing and dancing. But strangely, in the Anglo-American War known as the "Second American Revolutionary War", the British army fought in New Orleans in December 1814 for the Mississippi estuary, and the American General Jackson who came to meet the battle was outnumbered and temporarily gathered a group of his rabble. Lafayette both led his troop of thieves into battle. The battlefield unfolded in Shalmet outside the West City today, and the smoke of gunpowder billowed in the cold wind of January was so tragic! To this day, every December, Shalmet performs a retrospective of the battle. Colorful flares slid through the black night sky, listening to the faint sound of guns in the distance, and my mind was always involuntarily wandering to the American Civil War more than forty years later—although the New Orleans defeated the British, the proud aristocratic paradise of the South was still gone in the tide of slave emancipation, and the bronze statue of General Lee now stands alone in the circle where the garden district meets the lower city, and the ambition is still unpaid, and the world is like the wind. When Americans come to New Orleans, they always have the strange feeling of going to a foreign country, because the customs and customs here are really unique. Before Hurricane Katrina, the population of New Orleans was about half a million, with the largest number being black. The southern states of the United States were the stronghold of slavery, and Louisiana, where New Orleans is located, has one of the highest percentages of black people in the United States, second only to neighboring Mississippi. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, blacks make up more than two-thirds of the city's population. But the Negro people of New Orleans are markedly different from the rest of the United States, and they have developed a very distinct Creole and Cajun culture over the course of 200 years. After the opening of New Orleans, the second generation of immigrants born in the Louisiana colony were collectively referred to as Creoles in order to distinguish them from the first immigrants from the European continent. Crios of French, Hispanic or mixed descent, are still spoken and are called French Crios; And the people of color in the colonies, especially the descendants of black slaves who were plundered by West Africa, were called Black Creons. During the Spanish period, in order to deal with the stubborn French in the city, the Spanish rulers vigorously co-opted black slaves in West Africa, allowing them to buy freedom. The independent Black Creoles gradually integrated with the French and Spanish colonies, and their customs were both European traditions and the mysteries of the ancient African continent, and they combined French, Spanish, and African vernaclists to create a unique Creole language that is still spoken in central Louisiana today. After the Louisiana colony was transferred to the United States, the new influx of "Northerners" was not accepted by the Creoles of New Orleans, and the first Louisiana governor of the United States, Carbon, forced the English language only aroused strong resentment among the locals, who marched in the streets to protest the vulgar culture and tyrannical policies of the Northerners. Interestingly, the nobles who fled from Latin America to New Orleans during the Haitian Revolution were warmly welcomed by the natives of New Orleans, who quickly merged with New Orleans' Creolean culture. To distinguish themselves from the growing number of Americans going south, the natives of the New Orleans area began to refer to themselves collectively as Creoleans, while the Cazhen people were of French descent who had migrated from the Canadian region to Louisiana in the United States. In the mid-to-late 18th century, a war was waged between the British and French colonists in present-day Canada for the new French colonies, and many French began to move their families south, and the merchant ships whose destinations did not know where they were transported were to their new homes. Most of the colonists in the Arcadia region of France were exiled to what is now Louisiana, USA, and became the originator of today's Careal people. To this day, the language of the Cazhen people is still French with a strong Arcadia accent. Cajun food is basically a rural Faga hometown dish, with a simple cooking technique, using a lot of local ingredients and spices from the South, such as onions, celery and diced green peppers, as well as the common Louisiana crayfish, which are almost every dish, and the style is very strong and spicy. Rice has always been a Cajun-style staple, and it's a real outlier compared to the meaty bread style of the rest of the United States. Over time, in the mid-19th century, New Orleans' excellent seaport and ease of transportation made it one of the most attractive major cities in the South. In addition to the French, Spaniards, and Latin American aristocrats, as well as the American Northerners, there was also a large influx of Irish and German immigrants from Europe, and Italians, Greeks, Croats, and Filipinos were common. Until the early twentieth century, more foreign immigrants entered New Orleans than Americans themselves, and it became a veritable cultural melting pot. Unlike the cultural fusion of the Northeast or California in the west, the magical land of New Orleans is very protective of traditional Creole culture, and each fusion is to acquire the characteristics of foreign culture and integrate it into Creole tradition. Riding an old streetcar along St. Charles Avenue from the French Quarter to Uptown, it's like stepping into a time tunnel, from the European French Quarter, to the quintessentially American business district, to the Oak Avenue of Charleston, South Carolina, and the Victorian architecture that was once popular in the early 20th century. These once different languages, cultures, fashions, and beliefs are now intertwined, evolving into Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, and a distinctively Creolean New Orleans culture. In the 20th century, with the rise of jazz, a large number of artists flocked to New Orleans. A significant number of them are gay, including the jazz and piano king Tony. Jackson, writer Harry Truman. Capote, and the playwright William Brown, who wrote the immortal "Streetcar No. 1." Tennessee, etc. The famous Old Blacksmith Bar on Bourbon Street has been open to gay people since its opening, and later the "Banished Lafayette Café" is the oldest gay bar on Bourbon Street. Although the gay movement has suffered several major blows in New Orleans, New Orleans passed an anti-gay discrimination statute in 1991, and in 1997 the mayor of New Orleans decided to extend the benefits of traditional marriage to same-sex relationships. In the conservative South, New Orleans' aggressiveness in the gay affirmative action movement is evident. Today's Bourbon Avenue is a bustling gay district that crosses the "purple dividing line" of Boulevard Saint-Ann to the north. As night falls, sturdy strippers party the historic "Banished Lafayette Café" bar, lit up with colorful balloons, rainbow flags and crowds. Further north, across Espranada Avenue into the secret jazz hub of Marini, known only to locals, 600 French Street is the city's famous gay bookstore, facing the eerie window of the tattoo shop around the corner. Turning another corner, a row of brightly coloured taverns lined up with young men in neutral costumes smoking cigarettes and leaning against the mottled brick walls to watch passers-by amid the chaotic jazz notes. The years completely dissolved in New Orleans, and all the background, history, culture, and even sexual orientation were quietly merged into the flow of the Mississippi River here, and the name was changed to "Nora".

Politics and Economy: New Orleans is a major industrial city in the southern United States, with 1/4 of the state's factories and enterprises; There are textile, food, wood processing, oil refining, petrochemical, chemical and other industrial sectors; It is also an important shipbuilding and aerospace industry base in the country, with the Afonta shipyard and the Michod factory, which produces rockets and aerospace equipment, the largest enterprises and the largest retail, wholesale and financial center in the state; Tourism is thriving, second only to transportation in the city's economy. New Orleans is the second largest port in the United States after the Port of New York. The Port of New Orleans is located at the throat of the Mississippi River, with a deep and wide hinterland, and is an important river-sea, sea-land transportation center in the United States. The Port of New Orleans was founded in 1718. At the beginning of the 19th century, the port developed rapidly due to the increase in the export of cotton and cereals. In recent years, the first place in the cargo throughput of the port is oil, followed by grain, general cargo, coal, etc., with an annual throughput of about 100 million tons. It ranks first among all ports in the country. The port is mainly for entrepot trade, and there is a foreign trade belt in the port area, covering an area of 7.6 hectares, where imported goods can be stored, processed or exhibited duty-free. It is the intersection of 7 main railway lines, connecting Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other major cities. It is convenient for water and land transportation, and is the hub of the highway network in the delta region. Multiple bridges span both sides of the Mississippi River. The famous 39-kilometre-long dam of Lake Pontchatres connects the city with the northern shore of the lake. There is 1 international airport and 2 domestic airports. The Port of New Orleans has three port areas: the Mississippi River Port Area; Flood drainage channel port area; other canals, waterways and the port areas of Lake Panhatren and Lake Boener; The Mississippi River port area is the main one. The total length of the Hong Kong terminal line is about 50 kilometers, with more than 150 berths. All piers are almost shore-friendly. The Port of New Orleans is served by barge with Europe and the Pacific coast, including the Far East. Barges can be carried up the Mississippi River and the Illinois River to Chicago. The port has set aside a dedicated area of water as a berthing area for carrying barges. The Port of New Orleans has developed a 30-year harbor plan called the Central Harbor District. The "Central Port District" will be built on the eastern outskirts of the city of New Orleans, on the banks of the drainage channel between the Industrial Canal, the pier of the Rue de France and the Pont de Paris, covering an area of about 5,000 hectares.

After listening to Catherine tell the history of the city in such detail, Li Chuanfeng really admired this scout. And so they came to the city!