1685. Chapter 1685 The strong have their own strong hands [09]
You can't do farm work in winter, so it happens to be a good time for craftsmen. Women, too, can take advantage of winter to do some needlework.
Shen Mingfu had someone put up a notice and asked the government officials to go around to inform them. After hearing the news, the girls immediately expressed their intention to participate in this girls' workshop.
Shen Mingfu didn't need Shen Mingzhu's help. She just brought dozens of people to do their own work, including interviews, training, repairing the shop, setting product names, and grouping. She personally participated in many trivial things.
Shen Mingzhu saw it and ignored her, letting her exercise on her own.
On such a busy but peaceful day, they received an invitation letter from the Emperor of Jin.
Every winter on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty would hold an ice-play competition for the sake of excitement and bonding.
Since I didn’t go back to Mianzhou, there is no reason not to participate.
Xiao Xian and Shen Mingzhu jointly replied to a letter, saying that they had gone back to participate and would leave for Beijing in a few days.
Shen Mingfu was very happy when she learned that she could finally go to the palace in Shangjing to see what it was like.
As long as her daughter's workshop gets started, people will naturally continue to help.
What's more, Hou Shou also brought many capable people with him.
When the moon was low during the winter solstice, they set out for Beijing.
Jin people do not celebrate the Han Chinese Spring Festival, but at the end of the twelfth twelfth lunar month, they also celebrate their own festival - the Fire Dragon Festival.
Usually on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, the Fire Dragon Festival is celebrated throughout the Jin Kingdom.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, when dripping water turned into ice, tall firewood piles were piled up outside the house. There were tall firewood piles every other place, and there were some smaller firewood piles in between.
Then after dinner, when the time comes, there will be people racing horses and beating gongs and drums, and every family will come out to dance the fire dragon.
Usually, the emperor or someone designated by the emperor rides a horse, holds a torch, and races over to light the piles of firewood.
When the fire first lights up, people will dance around the fire to keep warm, and then it will not end until dawn and the fire gradually extinguishes.
Although it is the coldest time, the surrounding fire is blazing, which can resist the cold.
And for young people, this is their blind date festival.
On this day, you can search for someone of the opposite sex that you are interested in, and then express your affection by dancing with him/her. If the other party accepts, you can hold hands and dance an intimate duet together, and then you can come to propose marriage.
In addition to the role of blind date, it also has the role of expressing love to the person you admire. For example, a beautiful girl or young man is very popular and has many admirers.
So on this day, you may harvest a lot of silk scarves or sachets. The more you harvest, the more popular the person is.
In previous years, it was Yeluen who made the most gains among men, and naturally Yeluxiang was the woman.
The Bingxi Festival is an act of the royal family to turn the activity of ice skating into a festival. In the Kingdom of Jin, as soon as winter comes, some people start skating.
In the twelfth lunar month, half a foot of the river is frozen, so you can not only skate on it, but also run horses, drive carts and pull sledges.
From wealthy idlers to ordinary people, they all find time to go skating and have fun.
Even children will splash water in the yard to make ice, and then use it as a playground every day, which is very happy.
Every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, there is the Bingxi Festival in the Kingdom of Jin.
It has snowed heavily, and the official roads are slippery and icy, especially the closer we get to Shangjing, the colder it gets.
