The history of temple fairs in these four-nine cities has a long history. This festival has been held since the previous dynasty.

Even after liberation, temple fairs in Sijiu City continued to be held. Li Xuewu remembered that the temple fairs in his childhood were still very lively.

Longfu Temple Fair, Huguo Temple Fair, White Pagoda Temple Fair, Earth Temple Temple Fair, Huashi Temple Temple Fair, these are the most historic temple fairs in Sijiu City.

Other large and small temple fairs also attract people of all ages.

But starting from when Li Xuewu was eight or nine years old, many temple fairs gradually ceased, and the Changdian Temple Fair that persisted until the end was also suspended for three years at some point.

The year before last, that is, the second year after Li Xuewu joined the army, the relevant departments reopened the Changdian Temple Fair, which stirred up excitement throughout the city. There were mats, tents, and tents lined up in rows, and stalls and vendors stood shoulder to shoulder.

The temple fair that Li Xuewu is going to take his sister to today is the only temple fair in Sijiu City at this time.

Actually, Li Xuewu had already made plans today and took his sister to buy things in Wangfujing and went directly to Liulichang.

This was just along the way, but Aunt Ding saw it and took it home. This was considered an extra trip.

Why do you say that?

Because the Gu family lives near Andingmen, which is also north of Li Xuewu's house, and that's on the North Second Ring Road.

And where is Wangfujing? It’s almost to East Chang’an Street.

If you walk southwest along Qianmen Street, you will find the temple fair that Li Xuewu and his sister are attending.

Now it's like running another trip from home to Wangfujing.

After more than 400 years of historical development, the Changdian Temple Fair has become famous in the capital for its unique charm of "promoting both culture and business, elegance and folklore, and business and entertainment."

The Changdian Temple Fair is held every year from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with Liulichang as the central axis, starting from the Hepingmen intersection in the north, to the Hufangqiao intersection in the south, to the South and North Liu Lane in the west, and to Yanshou Temple Street in the east.

The core is Neptune Village Park located on South Xinhua Street, which was later known as the Chinese Bookstore.

The entire temple fair area will be closed and no motor vehicles will be allowed to pass.

There are all kinds of stalls on the roadside, offering all kinds of food.

At the temple fair, there were people running land boats, people playing with flags, and people using big copper pots to make tea soup in small bowls. These things were not seen in ordinary times.

Therefore, no matter whether you are rich or poor, the Spring Festival is not a Chinese New Year if you don’t go to temple fairs.

As mentioned just now, the official start time of the temple fair is from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Today is the first day of the year, and there are still two days until the Little New Year. Can there be a temple fair?

have.

Because ordinary people have the custom of buying new year's goods during the New Year, the temple fair has started setting up stalls since the New Year's Day, but not many vendors or people came.

Nowadays, the stalls in temple fairs are all under the collective supply and marketing system. The collectives organize stalls and individuals are not allowed to set up stalls.

Of course, craftsmen with business licenses issued by the Ministry of Handicrafts and Industry and Commerce can also set up stalls.

For example, those who repair shoes, make keys, and make baskets. These handicrafts cannot form a collective management model, so the operating rights are opened to craftsmen.

Therefore, do not make a comprehensive identification of an industry or status based on policy requirements for certain periods of time.

The market changes, and so do people, so policies also change. We need to look past the fog of history to see what happened at a specific time.

Just like now, Li Xuewu took Li Xue and drove the car directly to Liulichang and found a place to store the car.

Because there was something on the car, Li Xuewu found a place to store the car and paid three cents more than the bicycle.

As soon as she got off the car, Li Xue saw two foreigners taking photos with cameras.

"Second brother"

Li Xue looked at Li Xuewu nervously. Li Xue had not seen foreigners before, but it was rare to see someone walking around with a camera.

Li Xuewu walked around the back of the car to Li Xue, and let his sister take his arm.

Seeing that Li Xuewu was wearing a leather jacket, cotton hat, sunglasses, and leather shoes, which was somewhat different from the gray, black and blue surroundings, the two foreigners, a man and a woman, moved the camera over.

Li Xuewu was also walking inside with his sister. When he saw that Li Xue had previously reminded the two of them to take photos of themselves, he blocked the direction of the camera with his hand.

"Exceed, could you like a picture of you?"

Seeing that this man, Huang Mao, was speaking English to Li Xuewu and wanted to take pictures, the three young men in Chinese tunic suits following the man and the woman took a step forward.

One of the lesbians wearing glasses and with short ear-length hair was about to step forward to translate for Li Xuewu.

But who knew that Li Xuewu had a serious look on his face and waved his hand that had been facing the camera to signal the others not to get close, and politely rejected Huang Mao's request.

"rry,i doo&aken to the cara"

Seeing Li Xuewu replying to Huang Mao in fluent English, not only Huang Mao was surprised, but even the lesbian who came forward to translate was stunned.

There are not many people in China who can speak English so fluently. They either work in the foreign affairs department, have education in this field at home, or are engaged in teaching, but Li Xuewu looks a bit young.

Looking at Li Xuewu's clothes and the car he drove, the three of them also guessed that Li Xuewu might be a person with an identity or background, or a descendant of these people.

"hy?jt take a picture"

Huang Mao frowned and spread his hands to express doubts to Li Xuewu.

Because he saw that Li Xuewu could communicate with him, he didn't talk to the staff around him.

“ernal riacy”

Li Xuewu, wearing sunglasses and with an expression as if he should keep strangers away from him, replied, "Personal privacy."

This made Huang Mao a little embarrassed. Even the three young men in Chinese tunic suits who came with them noticed Huang Mao's unnaturalness.

"Comrade"

It was this young woman with short-cut hair who spoke, "They are journalism scholars who came to visit us, so they need to collect some materials, you see."

Li Xuewu shook his head at the young woman and said, "We have a splendid traditional culture, a rich and colorful urban life, and excellent model representatives. Please ask them to take pictures of these. I am just an ordinary citizen. No.

Need to take pictures”

"this……"

Nowadays, it costs a few cents to take a small photo. Taking pictures is a fashionable thing. Are there any people who don’t want to be photographed?

Seeing that the young woman was in trouble and that her companions who wanted to take pictures were about to leave, Huang Mao, who had been silent just now, suddenly asked Li Xuewu, "Can I ask you a question?"

Li Xuewu took Li Xue and was about to leave, but Huang Mao asked and stopped.

He didn't say yes or no, he just looked at that woman.

The meaning is obvious. If I want to answer, I will answer. If I don’t want to, I won’t answer.

"I see that your dress is extraordinary and you must have a high status in your country. The car you drive is a Willys Jeep. Do you like cars from the United States?"

This yellow-haired woman can also speak Chinese, which is rarer than people in China who can speak Chinese. She may have worked or studied in China.

"No"

Li Xuewu shook his head and said, "First, my clothes are not new here, they are a little different. The most beautiful clothes are the clothes of the three people around you. You can understand the culture they represent. I won't say more."

"Secondly, we don't care about status here, we care about comrades. The people who are in charge are not the rich, but the people who walk on the streets with confidence. I am also a member of the people."

Li Xuewu said to the woman who had changed her expression, "Third, the vehicle I work on is our domestically produced 212 Jeep. I like that one very much, but it is a work vehicle."

Under the surprised expressions of several people, Li Xuewu said helplessly, "In my life, I can only drive the old antiques that my elders seized from the Americans."

Even when he saw the yellow-haired woman's face turning ugly, Li Xuewu still said, "There is no other way. We are diligent and thrifty. The things we captured are also things. Just use them as waste."

After he finished speaking, he ignored the reactions of several people and walked into the street with his sister Li Xue.

As soon as you enter the inner street, you will feel a festive atmosphere, and stalls have been set up along both sides of the street.

There are people selling couplets, New Year pictures, firecrackers, calendars, lanterns, diabolos, windmills...it's all dazzling.

Because today is Sunday, there are many people not going to work, and it is the last Sunday of the year, so everyone came to buy new year's goods today.

The stalls are also filled with things related to the Chinese New Year.

The most representative of this era is candied haws.

Hey, the candied haws at this time is different from the ones common in later generations. It is really long.

How long can it be?

Haha, a child can wrap the candied haws on the waist twice and a half.

It's just that long.

The younger children swayed when they bought a bunch of them.

He also held it up as if he was drunk, walking happily.

This means that I am awesome and can afford to eat candied haws.

After they had all come this far, Li Xue looked back behind her, and then she had the courage to ask, "Second brother, what did you just say to them?"

Because of the noise on the street, Li Xuewu pulled his sister closer

He said, "I won't let them take pictures, so I can brag about it, hahahaha."

"Cluck cluck"

Li Xue only felt that it was really interesting to hang out with her second brother, as she could see people and things she couldn't see at school or at home.
To be continued...