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- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist looks at the short vertical lines he has carved on the clay tablet, and when the clay tablet marked December has finished drawing the last line representing the 31st, it means that the old year has passed.

These clay tablets are the calendar tools used by the protagonist himself, which he started using in the spring of this year.

Since the calendar is calculated by himself, the protagonist naturally imitates the current calendar according to the most familiar solar calendar, and after nearly a year of use, no obvious errors have been found in the monthly climate.

Therefore, the protagonist can judge that the place he is in is still the earth, or at least a place that is highly similar to the earth in the astronomical calendar, where the revolution is also 365 days, and the rotation is also 24 hours.

This also saves the protagonist a lot of trouble, if it's a new environment, it will be embarrassing if you need to make your own calendar, so there's no problem with him copying the solar calendar, but the calendar is a black technology, he won't, which involves astronomical knowledge.

In order to make it easier to remember, the protagonist discarded the lunar calendar that he did not understand, and the New Year's Day of January 1 of the solar calendar naturally became the Spring Festival, just like the calendar reform that Japan once did.

After the end of December 31, 3 years, tomorrow will be the new year, the Spring Festival (New Year's Day) of the 4th year.

This year's Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival after the protagonist imitates the calendar, and he is not ready to spend this festival alone.

He has always wanted to cultivate the cohesion of the Divine Envoy King Army, culture is a very important link, and what culture is more direct and effective than the New Year's Festival culture?

On December 31st, the protagonist gathers all the males in [Waterfront City] to the conference room and announces that the next day will be the first day of the new year, and a banquet will be held.

[Waterfront City] did not gather all the high-level male ants, for example, Lan Bofei and his legion stayed in the main nest [Qingqiu City]. However, most of the legion commanders follow the protagonist and spend the winter in [Waterfront City], where high-level males account for more than eighty percent of the country's total.

Most of the males are summoned to the conference room by the protagonist, and at first they think that something big is about to happen, such as an enemy attacking soon.

As a result, the protagonist suddenly announced such a confusing news: tomorrow is the first day of the new year?

Male ants have the concept of a year, but in their concept, a year is a collection of four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, and when the four seasons are over, the year is over.

In the consciousness of the ants, there is no concept of the beginning and end of the year, and the changes between the four seasons are not too clear, and it is difficult to say which day belongs to spring and which day belongs to summer at the turn of spring and summer. It may have been very cold yesterday, like spring, and the next day the temperature climbed rapidly like summer, and a week later a thunderstorm brought the temperature back to the state of spring cold.

And what is the practical point of the ants knowing the specific dates of the beginning and end of the year? It doesn't seem to make any sense to the lives of ants right now.

Therefore, for thousands of years, the males of the big-headed ant kingdom have never paid attention to the question: which day is the beginning of the year and which day is the end.

If you have to get tangled, most males will think that the year begins in spring and ends in winter, and they can't fix the start and end point to a specific day.

Now that the king of the gods has announced such a date, the ants have said that they have remembered, this must be a "divine decree", they do not understand it, they do not understand it, but they do not need to understand it, just obey it.

Although the protagonist wants to take the opportunity to spread more knowledge about the calendar and time, the vast majority of male ants seem to be less interested, and they are far less curious than the large worker ant class.

The protagonist can only come step by step, and the development of a civilization requires a large number of individuals who can think independently. Although ants are very collective, they are very lacking in individual thinking.

The large worker ants are a good example, but they are not enough, and the males have shown only military and political initiative. The protagonist consciously changes the situation, but with little success. Sometimes he feels that he is trying in the wrong direction, the physiological structure of ants is very different from that of humans, is it wrong to ask them to evolve according to the development path of humans, and they are destined to achieve half the result?

But the protagonist is still making efforts, and with his ability, he doesn't know how to take a path of civilization evolution with ant characteristics, or he can only follow the existing experience of the human world, which is the only experience he can rely on.

After announcing that the next day is the Spring Festival, the protagonist announces that there will be a grand festival banquet for the Spring Festival.

For the ants, there is never a cultural program or anything, the worker ants and the soldier ants only know how to perform tasks and meet the basic survival needs, and the male ants will have basic communication after work, which is some form of small talk, but the topic is still around the politics and military they are interested in, such as exchanging information packets about the wars or conferences they have participated in.

Therefore, the only Spring Festival event that the protagonist can think of to involve all the ants is the banquet, that is, eating and eating.

Anyway, eating is the instinct of living beings, and both high-level and low-level creatures have this need, which is enduring and irreplaceable. The annual festival of any nation is inseparable from eating, and has developed its own unique festival food.

The protagonist also feels that eating is the only way to celebrate the festival that can interest all ants.

Thanks to the unification of the south bank of the Great River and the popularization of agriculture, this year's entire territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion has had a bumper harvest, and the food stock has increased significantly, which is enough to support the holding of a Spring Festival dinner according to the protagonist's wishes.

On the day of the Spring Festival, all worker ants and soldier ants can eat ordinary food without moderation, and luxury goods such as high-end food and honeydew are also provided with an additional month's serving. Of course, all of this food needs to be eaten on the same day, otherwise the protagonist won't have enough clerks to keep track of the consumption and balance of each ant.

As for the males and queens, their premium food and honeydew are available in unlimited quantities. Fortunately, the ants have full collective consciousness and do not waste food and do not strangle themselves to death. This is stronger than many of the 21st century human beings.

The queen ants enjoy their own food in the dormitory, and the male ants' banquet is held in the conference room, where the protagonists have improvised tables and chairs.

Ever since the use of bronze tools in woodworking has made it possible to create tables and chairs, more and more males have become accustomed to resting and eating on their stomachs like the protagonists.