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Xie Qian smiled and picked up the chopsticks, demonstrated them to everyone, and said: "My Daqin's chopsticks are not only used for dining, but also contain many essences of Chinese culture. ”

After listening to Xie Qian's words, out of curiosity, Douglas and others were not so embarrassed, after all, people said that this pair of chopsticks contains a deep Chinese culture, and it is understandable that they have not learned it for a while.

"Master Xie, can you tell us about the cultural essence of these chopsticks?"

Xie Qian said with a smile: "Willing to serve your envoys, you have all seen it, these chopsticks are in pairs, intuitively speaking, it contains a spirit of unity and cooperation, please see, the two chopsticks must be matched well in order to hold the food up." ”

Xie Qian easily picked up the food with chopsticks, but did not put it in his mouth, but continued: "I advocate harmony in Huaxia, if you regard these two chopsticks as two countries, it is the same, if the two countries can cooperate with each other, they can be mutually beneficial."

We have idioms such as 'a single tree cannot make a forest' and 'a chopstick is easy to break, but a pair of chopsticks is difficult to break', emphasizing the spirit of harmony and unity.

In addition, our chopsticks are usually made of bamboo, bamboo is an elegant thing in my Chinese culture, plum bamboo orchid chrysanthemum is collectively known as the 'four gentlemen', fearless in the face of the cold.

The humble bamboo has a low head leaf, and the proud bone plum has no back-facing flowers. The center of the bamboo is empty, just like a person, you have to be humble in order to accept more things.

Although bamboo is hollow, it is extremely tough and not easy to break. Being a man should be like this, so in my Chinese culture, there is a saying that a gentleman is like a bamboo.

Meadow is arrogant, Lando is dusty, chrysanthemum is clear, and only bamboo is tough. Proud and humble, it is really the quality of a true gentleman's husband. The bamboo is simple and pure, the product is strange and elegant, the shape is quiet and pleasant, and there is a festival before it is unearthed.

Bamboo not only has the meaning of elegance, but also has the heart of integrity, but also the bosom of the valley, rolling red dust, chasing fame and fortune is very much, only the true gentleman has the state of mind of bamboo. The meaning of the bamboo of enlightenment, I use chopsticks for chopsticks in China, and it is not accidental. ”

After Xie Qian finished speaking, Douglas and the others seemed to understand whether they understood or not, but they felt unfathomable, and suddenly felt that the chopsticks in their hands were a little sacred

How sacred must it be for a people to eat with such a sacred thing

Xie Qian is not pretending to be a little fresh, the Son of Heaven said that Chinese culture is contained in every item of life. When explaining Chinese culture to foreigners, you can't expect them to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics at the beginning;

Instead, we should start from the subtleties, down to a pair of chopsticks and an inkstone. A piece of porcelain, let them feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture.

In addition to the introduction, it is more important to take them to see the way from Ningbo to Nanjing. Passing through the most prosperous and affluent areas of Daqin.

In Hangzhou, the smoke willow painted the bridge. The wind curtain is green, and there are 100,000 people. The clouds and trees surround the embankment sand, the angry waves roll frost and snow, and the moat is endless. The city is full of pearls, Hu Ying Luo Qi, the situation is luxurious, the heavy lake is stacked on top of Qingjia, there are three autumn laurels, ten miles of lotus. Qiang tube clear, Lingge flooded the night, frolicking and fishing lotus baby. Thousands of horsemen have high teeth, listen to the flute and drums while drunk, and enjoy the smoke. Such a scene makes the envoys of various countries fall into a fairyland, lingering.

Xie Qian also took them to fly to the peak to watch, told them the story of the Sansheng Stone, and tasted tea and Zen with the monks with white hair in Lingyin Temple. Let them experience Chinese Buddhist culture firsthand.

From Hangzhou again, all the way is all by boat, the two sides of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal are fertile for thousands of miles, the scenery is picturesque, and the merchant ships on the river are like carp crossing the river;

After arriving in Suzhou, Xie Qian took them to see the gardens of Suzhou and visit the gathering of the Shangwen people in Tiger Hill, so that they could feel the grand scene of Jiangnan culture.

Finally, I went to see the industrial park outside Suzhou, where the spinning mills and weaving factories were connected, and the large spinning machines driven by the steam engine were singing.

Here, Douglas and others were shocked again, such a huge factory, still powered by steam engines, those spinning machines can spin dozens of yarns at a time, the efficiency is so high, so that it is breathtaking;

Mountains of yarn are loaded onto a rail car by workers and sent directly to a huge warehouse on the other side.

In order to prevent fire, the inside and outside of the plant are cleaned up very neatly, and before entering the factory, it must be checked by the guard, and it is strictly forbidden to bring fire into the factory.

Douglas proposed to visit the factory, but Xie Qian politely refused, on the grounds that most of the people in the factory were women, and men and women could not kiss each other.

Douglas could only roll his eyes, what men and women don't kiss, the people who transported the goods in the factory were obviously men;

He was really interested in the big yarn cars, but he couldn't see the reason for it from a distance outside the door. He was shocked by the roar of hundreds of large spinning machines in a huge factory.

In this several square kilometers of the factory, there are not only spinning mills, but also weaving mills, printing and dyeing factories, a piece of silk and cotton cloth with bright colors, drying in the sun, and occupy several square kilometers of the range, as far as the eye can see, Buman blows lightly with the wind, colorful, like a dream.

To Douglas's surprise, Daqin's schools were also frequented, where almost all the children were in the affluent areas of Jiangnan.

"Lord Xie, I heard that students in your country receive education for free, right?"

This intrigued Douglas, who could not have imagined that he had never seen a country in Europe that could provide free education to all its children.

Envoys from countries such as Otesa may not have much of a sense of this, but Douglas and Carlo, who came from England and Portugal, knew very well the importance of education to a country.

Daqin is so big and has such a population, if all children can receive education for free, with such a large population base, how many talents will be produced in the future. Even if only one of the 100 students becomes a talent, that is an unimaginable number compared to other countries.

Xie Qian shook his head very modestly and said: "That's not it, my Daqin divides the household registration into upper households, middle households, and lower households, only the families of the lower households can enjoy free education, and the families of the middle households and the upper households have to pay in full." ”

"That still means that all children in your country can get an education."

"Most of them, there are some children in remote areas, due to conditions, they have not been able to fully cover for a while."

"Lord Xie, I heard that you have a medical insurance system here, where people can get medical treatment for free?"

Wu County, Suzhou, which happens to be one of the six medical insurance pilot counties in Daqin, is known to Douglas.

Xie Qian simply took them to Wu County to visit the Daqin Government Hospital, and at the same time explained to them the medical insurance system proposed by Qin Mu.

"I Daqin is gradually implementing this medical insurance system, the people of the lower households can enjoy free medical care, and the middle and upper households can also enjoy free medical care in the future as long as they pay some insurance premiums, so as not to return to poverty due to illness."

Regarding medical insurance, Xie Qian not only gave a detailed introduction, but also tried his best to boast about the superiority of this system.

He did not say that Daqin only selected a few counties as pilot projects, and did not decide the fact that it was implemented nationwide. It's just vague that some states and counties haven't had time to implement it.

It would be great if Britain and Portugal followed suit.

Of course, Britain and Portugal are small and sparse, and it may be easier to implement them.

Qin Mu said that the political system is also one of the important components of soft power.

An advanced system is often the foundation for ensuring the strength and continuity of a country.

Today's Europe, which has just emerged from the rule of theocracy in the Middle Ages, is still in a relatively chaotic stage in terms of political system, and is actually lagging behind China.

Xie Qian's efforts to promote the various systems of Great Qin were also instructed by Qin Mu.

In the end, Xie Qian attributed the strength of Great Qin to the imperial examination system, and took them to visit the Fuxue and the imperial examination room, and explained the imperial examination system to them in detail.

In this regard, Douglas and others were once again amazed.

At present, Europe has not formed a fair system for talent selection, and most of them are still hereditary.

Not to mention Douglas, in fact, in the original history, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, many Western missionaries were greatly admired after inspecting China and the imperial examination system, thinking that they had discovered a perfect civil service selection system that even the West had not yet found, so they eagerly introduced it to the world.

Therefore, after Xie Qian gave Douglas and others a comprehensive introduction to the benefits of the imperial examination system, they were once again amazed.

Not only did they listen carefully, but they even asked their entourage to write down their notes one by one, intending to recommend this advanced civil service selection system to the decision-makers of their own countries as soon as they returned to their own countries.

And this is exactly what Qin Mu hopes to achieve.

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