.This time Fan Wubing came to Shanghai and met many people.
It is already Christmas, and it is New Year's Day again, and the atmosphere here is also very strong. Due to the exaggeration of the legend of the end of 199, the unpredictable expectations for the new millennium future, and even the impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis that has just passed, many young people are even more confused about the unpredictability of the future.
In this case, the most worrying thing about where your future will go, because as Shanghai, which has a serious Westernization, there are indeed many young people who are used to using Christmas to vent their emotions during the Spring Festival.
Fan Wubing was not very interested in this kind of thing, but Shen Ying spent a lot of time overseas, especially in Europe, having traveled and studied for several years. Therefore, she was more interested in this kind of Western festival and insisted on taking him to listen to the Christmas bells together.
"What's so nice about this thing?" Fan Wubing was pulled by Shen Ying and drove his Bugat Xulong's sports car to outside the most famous Catholic church near Xujiahui, where he parked.
Xujiahui Catholic Church is a medieval Gothic building with a long cross-shaped plane, facing east, and bell towers on both sides, towering into the clouds.
At this time, many small sparkling lights were pulled outside the wall of the church, and many church members or young men and women who brought their friends to join in the fun, which was very lively.
Xujiahui Catholic Church is the first Catholic church in Shanghai after the Opium War. It contains 64 pillars carved from Jinshan stones in Suzhou, each of which is composed of ten small cylinders. The ground is paved with square tiles, and a passage in the middle is paved with tiles. The doors and windows are all Gothic pointed arches, embedded with stained glass, inlaid into patterns and statues of gods.
There are nineteen altars in the church. The high altar in the middle was transported from Paris on Easter 1919. It has high religious and artistic value. The church can accommodate 2500 people at the same time.
The appearance of the church is a typical European medieval Gothic style, with a double-steep masonry structure, with a ridge of eighteen meters high and a bell tower of about sixty meters high. The two crosses on the spire are straight into the sky. There is also a cross on the hall, which looks a bit like a roulette, meaning that life is like a metaphor for steering a roulette.
In the middle of the hall is a plate-shaped relief, which is complex and gorgeous, and looks very much like a Roman clock from a distance. The external structure uses all-colored red bricks, and the roof is covered with beryllium graphite tiles, decorated with many Sons and stone sculptures of God, which are pure and peaceful.
During the Cultural Revolution, the Xujiahui Catholic Church was severely damaged, and even the two spires and the organ that had been removed were not spared. The church was used as a warehouse and religious activities were interrupted. It was not until Christmas in 1982 that the spire cross was restored and the Gothic style of the Daongtang was restored.
"There are probably hundreds of churches in Shanghai?" Fan Wubing vaguely remembered that he had seen a related introduction somewhere, so he said to Shen Ying who walked out of the car.
"Probably, I'm not very clear, it should be." Shen Ying was not very good either.
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Churches in Shanghai appeared very early. In the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi collaborated with Western Catholic missionaries to study astronomy and collaborated with Italian missionary Matteo Ricci to translate "Geometric Originals". Later, he was baptized in Nanjing and became a Catholic.
Later, Xu Guangqi returned to Shanghai to observe the system. Because he was the most famous person in Shanghai at that time, the number of people who believed in Catholicism increased in Shanghai with Xu Guangqi. In the early years of the Tianqi period, believers in Shanghai established a Catholic church near Xu Guangqi's mansion, and later the emperor also gave a plaque to hang it on the church.
However, during the Qing Dynasty, the trend of extermination of religions arose, and these churches were not forced to be restored after the Opium War.
After that, the style of building churches could not be resisted. Churches of various sects were continuously built, and more and more missionaries in Shanghai were becoming the largest foreign religion base in China.
"Did you think of giving me a Christmas gift?" Shen Ying suddenly asked Fan Wubing who was leaning against the body of the car.
"Huh?" Fan Wubing scratched his head, thinking that he had been busy recently, but he had forgotten about this matter.
Regarding Shen Ying, he was naturally embarrassed to say with confidence that I have never been a foreign festival, so I naturally would not prepare any egg-laying gifts. In fact, in the early years, the two of them did not celebrate Christmas together. If they had to do it perfunctorily, it would only make her sad.
"I'm sorry, I really didn't expect this. There are so many things recently that have filled my head with all kinds of distractions," Fan Wubing said to Shen Ying very apologetically.
"Fortunately, at least you didn't deal with me with irresponsible words." Shen Ying didn't seem to be angry, but just smiled, "Actually, I know that you've been busy with big things recently.
Fan Wubing hugged Shen Ying in his arms apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, in fact, for me, you are my most precious wealth. If you weren't for you, I would have no reason to run around for other things."
"Please tell me if everyone is fresh, it's good. This emphasis has been overwhelmed by Hong Kong and Taiwan." Shen Ying made an unbearable expression and then a fishy look. He said with some recollection, "In those years in Germany, every late autumn, the oak leaves behind the yard I lived in were not finished, and Christmas party invitations and greeting cards came one after another. I am not a Christian, nor do I believe in the Savior, but my classmates are not keen on this matter. Regardless of whether I believe in Jesus or not, as long as I live in the West, few people will last for Christmas. Christmas is not only a religious celebration, but also a festival for family reunion. Whenever I see the Christmas card with peace and goodwill and kind greetings, I think of our Spring Festival couplets, peace and peace, and family reunion."
Fan Wubing nodded. Although he was just an imported festival, it did not mean that he was not aware of this pure holiday consumption that had gradually spread in the Great Six.
Nowadays, as China gradually moves to the world, various imported products and imported festivals have also begun to become popular. In addition to some changes in faith, more cities and cities have provided operators with immeasurable business opportunities.
Christmas without gifts cannot be called Christmas. Santa Claus drives a sleigh to give gifts to children, and gifts from relatives and friends are a way to convey love.
Fan Wubing still remembers when he was a child, he was happy every Spring Festival. He always thought about whether his parents who worked hard for a year would receive gifts? Fortunately, after Fan Wubing was reborn, the Fan family never felt embarrassed because of the lack of superior conditions for material life. On the contrary, during the Chinese New Year and the holidays every year, the Fan family tradition is to allocate some funds in a targeted manner to help those who need help the most.
This way of thinking that takes into account the world has also made the Fan family famous, just like in the past, the thing that my sister Fan Ting liked the most was to extort some benefits from her younger brother Fan Wubing, who was rich enough to match the country. However, her efforts in donating funds to support education or other public welfare undertakings must definitely make the so-called top ten Chinese rich people dumbfounded.
The activities on the church had not yet begun, so Fan Wubing and Shen Ying walked hand in hand on the pedestrian street, watching the shops on both sides with lights on them, and Christmas trees were placed outside many shops with lights flashing on them. You can see promotional staff dressed in Santa Claus appearing, putting small gifts to passers-by, or holding some publicity activities, which was very lively.
Among the passers-by, you can also see many foreigners, some of whom are alone and some are gathered together, all of whom look very happy.
In recent years, China has gradually become affluent China, and has become one of the most popular countries for foreigners. Whether working at home or abroad, many people like to go on a business trip to Daxun before Christmas. This way, buying gifts will save worry, effort, time and money. After all, the cost-effectiveness of Daxun products is so discounted, attracting countless foreigners.
When the two of them met a boutique house with very exquisite decoration, they found that although there were not many customers, most of them were foreigners. After carefully looking through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, they realized that this was a silk lingerie shop.
For more than two thousand years, Chinese silk has been regarded as the best in the West. There was even a period when silk was equivalent to gold. Today, silk is still very popular: 8-weight and gorgeous silk nightgowns for men, and sexy and smooth silk underwear for women, which is indeed very popular.
It can be said that it is the Olympics of consumers around Christmas. The profit they bring to merchants is usually 20% of the annual profit, and some even as high as 40%.
For example, this year, the UK's Christmas consumption is expected to be 10 billion pounds, equivalent to 260 billion yuan, which is quite considerable.
According to the figures obtained by the intelligence research department of Fan's Investment Group, the output value of gift categories such as Christmas trees exported overseas this year by Da6 has exceeded one billion US dollars, and this number is still rising.
The two walked in and looked carefully before they found out that the store was actually authentic Suzhou silk, but the overall packaging of the store was relatively European style with foreign tastes, which looked a bit special.
"It's better, I'll give you a set of silk underwear!" Fan Wubing suddenly saw a set of silk underwear worn by the model opposite, and immediately said to Shen Ying very excitedly.
"Rogue 10" Shen Ying glanced at the underwear and immediately said with a little blushing expression.
It should be said that the workmanship and texture of that set of silk underwear are excellent, but the shape is a bit special. After all, some underwear designs that are very popular in Japan at this time are still very rare in China.
Chapter completed!