Chapter 21: The New Year
The New Year of the Celestial Empire is a little different from the Celestial Empire, which is calculated on a lunar calendar, and generally looks like the end of January and the beginning of February. Although before the Meiji Restoration, the book also used the lunisolar calendar modified from the summer calendar to calculate the year, but after the change to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, the book was the new year of the solar calendar, so the new year of the book is the first day of January at the beginning of the year, and the new year of the book is generally the same three days as the New Year's Day of the Celestial Empire, that is, from January 1 to January 3. These three days are the days of the national holiday. As a group of students, they should be happier, the school's spring break is seven days, so it is a holiday until the seventh day of January, and the school year starts on the eighth day of January. However, in the book, before the fifteenth day of the first month, it is considered to be celebrating the New Year.
Just a week after Christmas, Li Ye ushered in the first large-scale holiday after the crossing, and it was said that it was a different New Year, which was also Li Ye's real contact with how he spent the New Year, although Li Ye, who was a house in his previous life, because he liked anime and the love action dramas of the book, he also had some understanding of the book, but after all, it was just hearsay, and now Li Ye can maliciously really feel the New Year in the book.
The whole nation of Yuben is a nation deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and they hum the etiquette very seriously, and even when the origin of Confucian culture is now that the Celestial Empire is about to forget the traditions of its ancestors, Yuben still values these as usual. In the past, it was used by the person to send festive greetings to distant relatives and friends (relatives and friends who could not meet in the first month), but later there was no such boundary. I said that every family member sends hundreds of New Year's greetings every year. With the popularization of computers, printers have gradually replaced brushes. However, in order to show politeness, even if it is a printed New Year's greeting, I must add a sentence to express good luck, encouragement, or report the recent situation. Like the Celestial Empire, the New Year's Greetings also have lottery numbers.
There is another one, the New Year's money, which is similar to the New Year's money of the Celestial Empire, where people have to give their children and the children of their relatives some pocket money.
He said that he used to have two New Year's Days, namely New Year's Day and Spring Festival, which is similar to the current situation in the Celestial Empire. It was only in modern times that it was changed to a new calendar year. On Chinese New Year's Eve, I call it "New Year's Eve", and on Chinese New Year's Eve, I also have the custom of keeping the New Year, and people eat soba noodles while watching the programs arranged by TV stations for the New Year, and male and female singer solo competitions are the most popular. At midnight, the temple is filled with incense smoke and bells ring in unison, often one hundred and eight times. It is said that this is because there is a sentence in the Buddhist scriptures that "when you hear the bell, your troubles are clear". I think that every time I knock it, I will get rid of one kind of trouble, and one hundred and eight times it means that all the troubles will be removed. After the bell rings, people flock to shrines and temples to burn incense to worship the Buddha and count fortune telling, which is called "hatsuyu" (meaning the first visit). It is estimated that nearly 80 million people visit the shrine each year from midnight to New Year's Day. On the night of the New Year's Eve, there was also its own Spring Festival Gala 'Red and White Song Contest'.
From the first day of the first month to the third day of the first month, it is said that it is called 'Sanhe Said' and the first day of the first month of the first month is in the main day, and the juniors must first go to their parents to greet the New Year, greet their parents, and then go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings. It is customary to eat rice cake soup, and I call it 'royal miscellaneous boiling'. A straw rope or a circle made of straw rope is often pulled up above the door of each house, which is called 'Zhu Lian Rope' or 'Zhu Lian Ornament'. Some also put some pine and bamboo, called 'door pine'. Many company buildings and streets and alleys have set up novel and unique archways with pine, bamboo and plum trees to celebrate. Animals symbolizing longevity, such as cranes and turtles, are also decorated with paper-cutouts inside and outside their homes to pray for safety. At the same time, according to the 12 zodiac signs, carve a year and give each other away. The Ministry of Postal Affairs also issues a large number of 'New Year's stamps' depicting the New Year's signs. Whether it is an individual or a group, the exchange of New Year's cards has become the most popular way to congratulate, and I call it 'fluttering kite', which is affectionate. Whoever receives more New Year's cards in the New Year will feel that the new year has a bright future, prosperous financial fortune, and special joy. During the New Year, the custom of greeting neighbors, relatives, friends, and children is still prevalent. The first thing we say when we meet is 'Congratulations on the New Year'.
Li Ye only then found out that the New Year of the book is really complicated, Li Ye he didn't even understand the New Year of the Celestial Dynasty except for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the pressure of the New Year's money, and the setting off of firecrackers, and now it is strange that he can understand the New Year of a new country, although he can know some from the memory of Takashi Komuro, but it is like watching a movie, how much can he remember? And how much can you understand?
It can be said that all this New Year is a novelty for Li Ye, except for the night of the night and the small room couple went to the shrine to worship, look here and there, everything is so attractive in Li Ye's eyes, as for going home and watching the so-called Spring Festival Gala Red and White Song Contest with the small room couple, Li Ye said that he couldn't understand his appreciation angle at all, and he didn't look at it for 10 minutes and fell asleep on the ground. Li Ye has never lasted more than 30 minutes at the Spring Festival Gala of the Celestial Empire, let alone now......
The next day was the right day, and after pretending to pay New Year's greetings with the Komuro couple and taking a little bit of New Year's money, he was kicked out of the house by the Komuro couple and asked Li Ye to go to the Gaocheng family and the Miyamoto family to pay New Year's greetings, as for the Komuro couple...... The two said that they would live in a two-person world for a while...... Li Ye was speechless, what age are these two people, one is almost 40 years old, and the other is thirty-five or sixteen years old and still playing this set (in other words, the parents of the high school students in this book seem to be younger than those in the Celestial Empire).
Li Ye went to the nearest Miyamoto house first, heard Li Ye ring the doorbell, and it was Miyamoto Li who came out to open the door, because it was Miyamoto Li, who always wore a sailor suit in Li Ye during the New Year, actually wore a kimono that made Li Ye's eyes shine, and sure enough, the female surname kimono of this book is pleasing to the eye, of course, Li Ye will never admit that all he knows about the female surname kimono is seen from the love action drama......
"Congratulations on the New Year!" Li Ye and Li worshiped each other, and after the year, Li Ye stayed at Miyamoto's house for a while, and by the way, he was stuffed with a belly of rice cakes......
After escaping from the Miyamoto house with the excuse of going to the New Year, Li Ye slowly came to the door of Gaocheng's house, from the memory of Komuro Xiao's memory in previous years, although Komuro and his wife also let Komuro go to Gaocheng's house to pay New Year's greetings, but every time Komuro Xiaoxiao is open, Li Ye really doesn't know what is terrible about Gaocheng's family, Saya is clear and bright, although a little arrogant, Mrs. Gaocheng's surname is noble and beautiful, and Li Ye has a great temptation, although the parent of Gaocheng's family looks a little scary, but Xiaomuro Xiaoxiao has always been kind and pleasant, Li Ye really didn't understand what the idiot Komuro was afraid of.
Although Li Ye had never entered the door of Gao Cheng's house because he didn't want to behave too differently before, he was afraid that someone would see that something had changed, but today was different, on the first day of the New Year, it was natural to come to pay New Year's greetings, and it was also ordered by the Komuro couple, so Li Ye pressed the doorbell at the gate of Gao Cheng's house.
It didn't take long for the subordinates of the Gao Cheng family to open the door and let Li Ye walk into this familiar and unfamiliar manor.
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