"Are you back?" While Chu Yun was holding Ling'er in the courtyard, Aila and others came back from the Tianxia Clothing Village.

"I met the Princess of Britain in the World Bud Village..." Ella asked tentatively.

"The princess of Britain should be very beautiful, right?" Chu Yun just asked casually.

Xiao Xiuer and Liu Rushi secretly complained in their hearts, why didn’t the military leader carry any pot?

"Yeah, it's very beautiful." Ella replied.

"British..." Chu Yun silently recited the name of this place.

If he hadn't come here, Britain would soon take over the baton of human civilization progress from China and begin to accelerate the transition from ancient civilizations in the East.

The industrial revolution did not break out suddenly, but was a qualitative change caused by quantitative accumulation. At this time, the West was carrying out price revolution, land enclosure movement, financial revolution, agricultural revolution, and primitive capital accumulation in colonies, which would lead to the industrial revolution break out a hundred years later.

Previously, the East was dragged down by natural disasters, bandits, bureaucrats, foreign enemies, sea bans, small peasant economy, and merchants in the Jiangnan region liked land annexation. Various reasons led to capital being only germinated but not developing.

Chu Yun, who was born in the history department, still remembers a famous Joseph Needham problem - the Chinese civilization used natural knowledge to meet actual needs from the first to the fifteenth century AD to meet practical needs was much more efficient than that of the West, but why did "modern" science not appear in China?

Regarding this issue, even Chu Yun’s era is very controversial. The mainstream view is attributed to geographical and cultural factors, but it is ultimately a "higher order equation" and is the result of many inevitable and accidental factors.

When Chu Yun was thinking about this complicated question, Ella remembered what Liu Rushi said to her.

"The chef has prepared the meal, so let's go to eat. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and there is a dragon boat race in Houhai. If you have time, you can go and see the dragon boat race yourself." Chu Yun did not worry about this problem that he had studied before, and said to Ella and others.

"Will the military leader go to see the dragon boat race with us tomorrow?" Ella asked.

"I won't go anymore. If you have something to do, you can take Ling'er with you." Chu Yun said.

Tomorrow, the Ministry of Justice will present him the first draft of the "Law of Rights Regulations". He also wants to take this opportunity to sleep in. There are a lot of things recently, which puts him a lot of pressure. The dragon boat racing, letting Ella, go to the market, is also his support for traditional festivals.

However, Chu Yun's seemingly cold attitude made Ella even more misunderstood when she was thinking about it...

The royal envoys were waiting for Chu Yun to meet him for a few days, and the Dragon Boat Festival was again in the city, and the whole city was very lively.

The Jiuzhou Army official organized a folk dragon boat race in Houhai Dragon Boat. Dozens of folk dragon boat teams were ready to participate in this dragon boat race.

In a peaceful and prosperous era, dragon boat racing, and the capital beat gongs and drums, it was very lively.

The lively atmosphere of the festival alarmed the envoys led by Princess Sofia. She heard that this day was a traditional festival in the East and wanted to hold dragon boat racing in the lake, so she couldn't help but feel excited, saying that she was going to Houhai to watch dragon boat racing.

Houhai is actually a water area in the capital. Along the coast are restaurants, singing stages, business workshops, and weeping willows brushing the shore, which looks very cool in summer.

There are dozens of dragon boats prepared with makeup on the waters, and the race boaters and drummers are in place. In front of the dragon boat, there is a big flat-bottomed dragon boat with bands on it, and merchants and upstarts spend a lot of money to board the boat to see the lake view and taste delicious food.

In addition to the big dragon boats and dragon boats, there are also colorful boats, music boats, small boats, small dragon boats and pleasure boats for the people on the embankment to enjoy.

"It's so lively!" Princess Sophia was wearing the moon dress she bought and was excitedly traveling through the crowd.

Because the capital is crowded with people, almost all activities are crowded with people and full of atmosphere.

After Princess Sofia and her group changed into Hanfu, they were not as conspicuous as before and were more free to move than before.

"What is the origin of Dragon Boat Festival?" Compared with the lively Princess Sophia, Salina wanted to understand the culture of China more and asked Li Jinde.

"The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is difficult to test, but it is generally believed that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate a poet named Qu Yuan two thousand years ago. Qu Yuan was a patriotic poet in a country called "Chu" two thousand years ago. He advised the king to reform and become stronger. However, the king's concubine at that time slandered him at the king. Later, after the Chu state was conquered by another country called "Qin", he jumped into the river and died, hoping to use his own death to promote the awakening of the king and citizens." Li Jinde explained.

Salina nodded and asked again: "Has Chu State finally perished?"

Li Jinde replied: "The State of Chu was eventually destroyed by the State of Qin."

"That's strange, why did Qin destroy Chu, and the people of Qin would also commemorate Qu Yuan?" Salina asked.

Li Jinde did not expect that the woman's problem was a bit sharp, and it touched a place he had never thought of. Yes, for Qin, Chu was a foreign country, so why did he commemorate a patriotic poet of Chu?

"It may be that the King of Qin swept the Liuhe River and allowed several countries to merge into the original Chinese nation, and the spirit represented by Qu Yuan was generalized, rather than referring to the State of Chu in a narrow sense." Li Jinde said.

"So that's what it is..." Salina thought.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are two main activities, one is dragon boat racing, and the other is eating rice dumplings. You can regard the rice dumplings as glutinous rice balls, with dates, chestnuts, dried persimmons, ginkgo, red beans, walnuts, ham, egg yolks, etc., and soak them in mugwort leaves on the outside." Li Jinde pointed to a stall selling rice dumplings.

"I want to eat!" Salina's eyes shone when she saw something delicious again.

She, Li Jinde, and the translator came to the stall selling rice dumplings.

"Masters, what kind of zongzi do you want to eat? We have all kinds of stuffed zongzi here!" Several stalls selling zongzi were snatching customers.

The capital city brings together vendors from all over the country, and you can find rice dumplings from all over the country here.

However, before choosing rice dumplings, Li Jinde needs to ask Salina a major question: "Do you like sweet foods or salty foods?"

Salina was a little surprised: "Is it important to be sweet or salty?"

Li Jinde smiled bitterly and said, "This is still very important. It used to be a sweet rice dumpling. Recently, some places added ham and egg yolks to the rice dumplings, which turned into salty rice dumplings. After people have eaten their fill in the past few years, they have argued whether it is a sweet rice dumpling or a salty rice dumpling, and it has been a big deal for this."

"Sweet rice dumplings are authentic, and stuffing ham into rice dumplings is simply heresy."

"The rice dumplings at the beginning were tasteless, so what does it matter if they stuffed them into them? This is innovation!"

Sure enough, after Li Jinde said that, several stalls selling rice dumplings became a quarrel.
Chapter completed!