Chapter 345: Christmas
There are four traditional festivals in Korea, similar to the Chinese tradition, namely the Spring Festival (January 1 of the lunar calendar), the Lantern Festival (January 15 of the lunar calendar), the Dragon Boat Festival (May 5 of the lunar calendar), and the Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15 of the lunar calendar).
Chinese New Year is one of the most solemn festivals in Korea, and in Korea, the New Year's morning sacrifice to ancestors (offering food and food to ancestors) means the beginning of a new year, and after the festival is over, children greet the adults and the adults return their blessings.
On the day of the Chinese New Year, rice cakes are eaten, meaning that they are one year older, and family members and relatives gather to play games such as hub throwing (a traditional Korean game played with four wooden blocks), springboard jumping (women standing at the ends of a long wooden board and taking turns jumping), and giving or hanging at home a blessing fence (a spoon-shaped tool for straining) that means "pretending to be a blessing".
On the day of the Lantern Festival, you pray for abundance and peace for the year with the first full moon of the new year, and it is said that all three wishes made to the full moon on this day will be fulfilled.
On the morning of the Lantern Festival, they eat plutonium (a hard diet of peanuts, chestnuts, and walnuts to ward off sores), they drink "Erming Shu" (wine that is drunk for the sensitivity of their ears throughout the year), they eat five-grain rice (rice made with rice, Jiang rice, adzuki beans, soybeans, and sorghum), and wild vegetables (vegetables made from edible grass and leaves).
When you eat these, you will call them by their names, and they will reply, "You buy my heat", which is to pray that there will be no heat stroke in the summer of the year.
There are two kinds of games for the Lantern Festival, one is to fly a kite, which has the meaning of eliminating the disaster of the year, and the other is to set a rat fire, which has the meaning of expelling demons, demons and pests.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to pray for a good year after the rice planting, Korean women wash their hair with calamus to make their hair shiny, swing and wrestle. They also make wheel cakes shaped like wheels to eat, and for this reason, the Dragon Boat Festival in Korea is also called the Wheel Festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, known as "Choo-seo" in Korea, is a festival in which food is prepared with fruits and new grains produced in that year, and is the second most solemn festival in Korea after the Spring Festival. On this day, the new grain is used to make food sacrifices to the ancestors, and then go to the tomb, and also use the grain, buckets, chestnuts and other products produced in the year to make muffins to eat, and play games such as tug-of-war, Qiang Qiang Shui Yue (everyone shakes hands and circles together) and other games.
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In terms of festivals, South Korea is a little embarrassed, on the one hand, it admires Europe and the United States, and on the other hand, it respects tradition, which is greatly influenced by China.
After all, tradition prevailed, so much so that some Western festivals took a back seat in South Korea.
Christmas is one of them.
Today is December 25th. It's Christmas, but Christmas is not a legal holiday in South Korea, and some places will have a day off, and South Korea's Chung-Ang University this year, according to the actual situation, taking into account the needs of students, took a half-day off yesterday afternoon, so that students could better spend Christmas Eve, and there was no holiday this morning. Take another half-day off in the afternoon.
In other words, Jin Jingcheng's lecture was held on Christmas Day. Under this premise, the fact that so many students can come to listen to his lectures, and even Park Beom-hoon and Lee Young-ae have come, shows his strong influence and personal charisma even more.
Just yesterday, Lin Xiujing called Jin Jingcheng and wanted to ask Jin Jingcheng to have dinner and spend Christmas Eve together in the evening. As a result, he was politely rejected by Jin Jingcheng.
Jin Jingcheng's Christmas Eve last night was very simple, except for a phone call with Han Jiaren, and then it was work, on the one hand, to prepare for classes, and on the other hand, to supervise the preparations for the opening of Night Paradise.
Yes. After more than a month of remodeling, decoration and preparation, according to Jin Jingcheng's plan, his first night paradise will open just this Christmas night!
"You're not allowed to run again tonight!"
At this time, Jin Jingcheng almost couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard what Lin Xiujing said on the phone, feeling that no matter how he heard it, it made people have an ambiguous ambiguity.
"It's like I ran away last night. Jin Jingcheng responded with a smile.
Lin Xiujing said: "Didn't you just run away last night." ”
Jin Jingcheng said, "What's the matter, do you want to ask me to dinner tonight?"
Lin Xiujing said: "Of course, if you refuse again, I want to see how many times you can let me hit the nail." ”
Jin Jingcheng said with a smile: "There was indeed something last night, well, although there is something tonight, there is no delay in having a meal." ”
Lin Xiujing said: "It's pretty much the same. ”
After agreeing on the phone to meet and eat, Lin Xiujing hung up the phone.
Jin Jingcheng smiled faintly, sitting behind his desk and drinking tea, while thinking about the opening of Night Heaven at night.
"Tonight is sure to be a great night, and Night Heaven is sure to give guests a heavenly feeling!"
Jin actually muttered to himself.
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In the evening, Jin Jingcheng drove to pick up Lin Xiujing, and the two had dinner in an elegant restaurant, not saying much in the process, just chatting a few words occasionally, but it already made Lin Xiujing feel satisfied and happy.
After eating, it was already completely dark, and it was almost seven o'clock in the evening.
Lin Xiujing couldn't help but ask, "Are you really okay at night?"
Jin Jingcheng said: "There is really something. ”
Lin Xiujing snorted, held back her shyness and said: "You are really a little hateful, how many men chase me, I refuse, and now I am chasing you in turn, but you don't seem to care at all." ”
Jin Jingcheng said: "Because I have a woman." ”
Lin Xiujing said: "Yes, you have Han Jiaren, you are already lovers, but you are not married after all, are you?"
Jin Jingcheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't expect that Lin Xiujing, a woman, would still be a little persistent in this kind of thing, could it be that her charm was really so great? It made her a little crazy infatuated? Jin Jingcheng knew that Lin Xiujing's personality was actually a little cold, and she would not take the initiative to pursue men so actively under normal circumstances.
Seeing that Jin Jingcheng didn't speak, Lin Xiujing couldn't help but ask: "You arranged for Han Jiaren to go to New York University to study for an MBA, right?"
Jin Jingcheng nodded calmly.
Lin Xiujing pouted and said, "I really envy her." ”
Lin Xiujing knows that Jin Jingcheng is a hidden man, combined with the previous events in Melbourne and the recent period of getting along, the smart Lin Xiujing has faintly noticed that Jin Jingcheng must have a lot of assets, so Lin Xiujing speculated that Jin Jingcheng arranged for Han Jiaren to study for an MBA, which is just the beauty that can be seen in front of him.
Lin Xiujing faintly saw that the greater beauty must be waiting for Han Jiaren, according to Lin Xiujing's understanding of Jin Jingcheng's character, Jin Jingcheng will never be stingy with his own women, and he is also very planned, since Jin Jingcheng arranged for Han Jiaren to study MBA, he will definitely give Han Jiaren an unimaginable career in the future.
Jin Jingcheng was dumbfounded again.
Lin Xiujing couldn't help but ask again: "If I had known you earlier than Han Jiaren, would it be possible for you to fall in love with me?" (To be continued......)