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Chapter 891 Misunderstanding and Sweet and Salty Rice Dumplings (four more)

"Are you back?" When Chu Yun was holding Ling'er in the courtyard, Aila and the others came back from Tianxiabuzhuang.

"I met the princess of Britain at Tianxiabuzhuang..." Ella asked tentatively.

"The princess of Britain must be very beautiful?" Chu Yun just asked casually.

Xiao Xiu'er and Liu Rushi murmured in their hearts that it was not good, why the military master didn't open which pot and which pot to lift.

"Well, it's beautiful." Ella replied.

"Britain..." Chu Yun silently read the name of this place.

If it hadn't been for him to come here, Britain would soon take over the baton of human civilization progress from China, and begin to accelerate beyond the ancient civilizations in the East.

The industrial revolution did not erupt suddenly, but a qualitative change caused by quantitative accumulation. At this time, the West was undergoing a price revolution, enclosure movement, financial revolution, agricultural revolution, and primitive capital accumulation in the colonies, and the industrial revolution would break out 100 years later. .

In the past, the East was dragged down by natural disasters, bandits, bureaucrats, foreign enemies, sea bans, and the small-scale peasant economy. Merchants in the Jiangnan area also liked land mergers. Various reasons caused capital to only sprout but not develop.

Chu Yun, who was born in the Department of History, still remembers a well-known Needham problem——from the first century to the fifteenth century AD, the Chinese civilization used natural knowledge to meet practical needs far more efficiently than the West, but why didn’t “modern” science develop in China Appear?

Regarding this issue, even in Chu Yun’s era, there is a lot of controversy. The mainstream view has attributed it to geographical and cultural factors, but it is a "higher-order equation" after all, and it is the result of many inevitable and accidental factors.

When Chu Yun was thinking about this complicated question, Ella remembered what Liu Rushi had said to her.

"The chef has already prepared the food, let's go to eat. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and there will be a dragon boat race in Houhai. If you have time, you can go to watch the dragon boat race by yourself." Chu Yun didn't worry about this problem that he had studied before. , Said to Ella and others.

"Isn't the military master going to watch the dragon boat race with us tomorrow?" Ella asked.

"No, you can take Ling'er with you if you have something to do," Chu Yun said.

Tomorrow, the Ministry of Criminal Justice will present to him the first draft of the "Rules on the Law of Rights". He also wants to take this opportunity to sleep in. There are a lot of things going on recently, which put him under a lot of pressure.The dragon boat race allowed Ella, a girl, to go to town, which can be regarded as his support for traditional festivals.

However, Chu Yun's seemingly indifferent attitude made Aila even more misunderstood when she was thinking wildly...

The royal envoys were waiting for Chu Yun's reception for a few days, and it was the Dragon Boat Festival again, and the whole city was very lively.

Kyushu military officials organized a private dragon boat race in Houhai Dragon Boat, and dozens of private dragon boat teams were ready to participate in this dragon boat race.

In the peaceful and prosperous age, dragon boat races, and the beating of gongs and drums in the capital are very lively.

The lively atmosphere of the festival alarmed the envoys led by Princess Sophia. She heard that this day is a traditional festival in the East, and a dragon boat race will be held in the lake.

Houhai is actually a piece of water in the capital city. There are restaurants, singing platforms, shops and workshops along the coast, and weeping willows brush the shore. It looks very cool in summer.

On the waters, there are already dozens of dragon boats with colorful makeup ready, and the regattas and drummers on them are in place.In front of the dragon boat, there is a twenty-foot-long flat-bottomed dragon boat with a band on it, and businessmen and upstarts spend a lot of money on the boat to watch the lake view and taste delicious food.

In addition to the big dragon boats and dragon boats, there are also colorful boats, music boats, small boats, small dragon boats, and painted boats for the people on the embankment to watch.

"It's so lively!" Princess Sophia walked through the crowd excitedly wearing the moonlight dress she bought.

Because of the large population in the capital, almost every activity is crowded with people and the atmosphere is full.

After Princess Sophia and her party put on Hanfu, they are not as conspicuous as before, and their activities are more free than before.

"What is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival?" Compared with the lively Princess Sofia, Selina wanted to know more about Chinese culture and asked Li Jinde.

"The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is difficult to test, but it is generally believed that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate a poet named Qu Yuan 2000 years ago. Qu Yuan was a patriotic poet in a country called 'Chu' 2000 years ago. He persuaded the then king to reform and become stronger. , but at that time the king's concubine slandered him to the king. Later, after the capital of Chu State was conquered by another country called "Qin", he threw himself into the river and died, hoping to use his death to promote the awakening of the king and citizens." Li Jinde explained.

Selina nodded, and had some doubts: "Did Chu finally perish?"

Li Jinde replied: "The state of Chu was eventually destroyed by the state of Qin."

"That's strange. Why would the people of Qin commemorate Qu Yuan when Qin State destroyed Chu State?" Selina asked.

Li Jinde didn't expect that this woman's question was a bit sharp, and it touched something he never thought of.Yes, at that time, for Qin, Chu was a foreign country, why would a patriotic poet of Chu be commemorated?

"It may be that King Qin swept Liuhe and merged several countries into the original Chinese nation. The spirit represented by Qu Yuan was generalized instead of referring to Chu in a narrow sense." Li Jinde said.

"So it's like this..." Selina thought about it.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are two main activities, one is dragon boat racing, and the other is eating zongzi. You can think of zongzi as glutinous rice balls, filled with dates, chestnuts, dried persimmons, ginkgo, red beans, Walnuts, ham, egg yolk, etc., wrapped in mugwort leaves." Li Jinde pointed to a stall selling rice dumplings.

"I want to eat!" Selina's eyes lit up when she saw something delicious.

She, Li Jinde, and an interpreter came to the stall selling rice dumplings.

"Masters, what kind of zongzi do you want to eat? We have zongzi with all kinds of fillings here!" Several stalls selling zongzi rushed to grab customers.

The capital brings together vendors from all over the country, where you can almost find zongzi from all over the world.

However, before choosing zongzi, Li Jinde needs to ask Sarina a big question: "Do you like sweet or salty?"

Selina was a little surprised: "Is it important whether it's sweet or salty?"

Li Jinde said with a wry smile: "This is still very important. It used to be sweet rice dumplings. Recently, some places added ham and egg yolks to the rice dumplings, so they became salty rice dumplings. After everyone was full for a few years, they started arguing about sweet rice dumplings. It’s better to have salty rice dumplings, and there’s a lot of fuss about it.”

"Sweet zongzi is the real thing, stuffing ham in zongzi is simply heresy."

"The zongzi at the beginning were tasteless, so it didn't matter what kind of traps were stuffed into them. This is innovation!"

Sure enough, after Li Jinde said it, several stalls selling zongzi became noisy.

Li Jinde said helplessly: "You see, right?"

　here today

　　
　
(End of this chapter)