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Chapter 172 The alien year without firecrackers

The weather is getting colder, but the atmosphere in the imperial capital is getting warmer because the Chinese New Year is coming here.

On December 15, the students of Imperial Capital University left school because they finally waited for their annual holiday - annual leave.

Compared with the students on Earth, the students of the Biwanxing are in a miserable state. They only have this holiday in a year, starting from December 15th and then ending on January 15th of the following year, which takes 30 days.

Now it’s better to have trains and airships. Before, there were only beast cars, which were all about to stop and stagger along the way. Some students even started school before they got home.

This not only limits the time for students to reunite with their families, but also limits the geographical scope of students enrolled by Imperial Capital University. Many students do not come because they are too far away from home, and there are many outstanding students here.

After the students left, the school became much empty, and even the librarians had less work. It would be almost done without working for two or three hours, because they also had to celebrate the New Year.

But I can't go home, I can only pass here, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Fortunately, there are many faculty and staff who stay at school this time every year, so everyone can enjoy it.

Dong Chen found that the preparations for the New Year here are similar to those on Earth, but this place is very unified, and there are only one. Unlike the earth, there are several different countries, races, and cultures. Spring Festival, New Year's Day, Christmas, etc., which are all similar festivals.

I don’t know if it’s because he is a Chinese and has been in China for the longest time. According to his observation, he felt that this place is more like the Chinese Spring Festival, and he also prepared a lot of food. Then relatives and friends were preparing to visit each other and listened to the library managers who were together that they also wanted to greet New Year’s greetings and also gave the younger generation a “red envelope”.

This custom was passed down from the beginning. They had to pray in the church at 0 a.m. on time to pray for the forgiveness of the God of Technology. This originated from the initial "exit incident".

I stayed piously in the church for seven hours, and then went home to worship my ancestors and thanked my ancestors for their struggle, so that I could live my life now.

Then there are all the people in the city who wish the elders a happy new year, thank the elders for their contributions to the family, thank the elders for their nurturing grace, and then the elders give "red envelopes".

In fact, it is just a coin with a random face value, which is considered a blessing, and it means support, support, and helping the younger generation grow.

"The family has money and can support you to grow up, grow up quickly, and then contribute to the process of building the family."

The whole process will last until noon on the 1st, for a full 12 hours, before you can have the first meal of the New Year to express your future.

Although the habits of different races such as human race, elves, dwarves, barbarians, etc. are slightly different, the process of the first day of the New Year is basically the same.

Dong Chen felt nothing about this. There was no elder here, so he didn't have to wish you a New Year's greetings to anyone, nor did he have to accept other people's greetings.

Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise his appearance is over 20 years old and his actual age is over 200 years old, which is really difficult to deal with.

If it was in Blackstone City, Shibel and the others would come to pay New Year's greetings, but they were not relatives, so they would not use that one, but another one.

At most, he went to Ka-haya and Andorf to see each other, bring some gifts to visit the door, and said, "Happy New Year, if you can, you will also go to the Giant Rock Tribe to see the Great Elder."

However, here, Dong Chen found it was a bit not lively enough. Although he was invited by Jin Shanshan to gather with them, when the New Year was really celebrated, they were still busy with their own things, so Dong Chen could only be with the faculty and staff.

This is actually not bad. The imperial capital was still very lively at this time, with all kinds of performances, and there were no shortage of noble dances. There were also lights and decorations at home and outside. According to Jin Shanshan and others, this year, there were bright biogas lamps and magical phonographs, and the atmosphere of the New Year was much better than in previous years.

However, Dong Chen still felt a little too quiet.

Although there were many places on China on Earth that had banned the setting of fireworks and firecrackers, there were still many small cities, towns, villages, etc., and for many people, listening to the sound during the New Year is the only New Year atmosphere.

However, the Star of the Biwan, which did not invent gunpowder, must have lacked this sound, which is also a pity for Dong Chen.

You should know that on earth, when other countries used the initial gunpowder as important weapons, China began to light fireworks skill trees in ancient times, thinking about how to play.

Later, when the Chinese New Year fireworks were set off, especially at night, as long as you choose any small city, it can play the effect of night fighter air strikes.

The flame emitted by the rapid-fire fireworks is like tracer bullets in an anti-aircraft machine gun, with bright lights soaring into the sky. And depending on the rate of fire, you can also imagine that the models of anti-aircraft machine guns are different, such as metal storm, 730 near-proof gun, 1130 near-proof gun, ordinary anti-aircraft machine gun, etc., all of them are available.

There are other two kicks, maths, fireworks, and hand-welded steel "cannon barrels". Some great people even make "semi-automatic ammunition change devices", which is definitely an anti-aircraft gun.

Such videos are posted online, and many people will speculate that there is another war in a certain place. The other party sent fighter jets to bomb at night, and then the air defense fire on the ground opened fire in full swing. Finally, various bricks started from tactics, strategies, national forms, humanities and morals, and made up a tragic scene of the war.

But in fact, they just fire a cannon during the Chinese New Year.

That's it.

Of course, it is actually quite good-looking, especially with an air defense alarm, which turns the screen green, and the viewing effect is better.

This festive scene must be invisible here, and there is no legend of the New Year beast here, and there is no need to drive away firecrackers. Dong Chen does not intend to invent gunpowder for such a small matter, and the matter of gunpowder will be discussed before he reaches his own territory.

But on the night of 30, Dong Chen still found some bamboos and placed them in the bonfire to burn them, and listened to the most primitive "crackling" firecrackers.

When others asked, Dong Chen said it was a custom of his hometown. Because the geographical isolation of this world is too strong, and every place has customs of each place, others will not investigate it in depth. Except for a few people who know that Dong Chen comes from the "New World", most people only know that Dong Chen comes from Black Stone City.

On the night of the thirty, they didn’t have Spring Festival Gala, they didn’t have Weibo to watch, and they didn’t have dumplings to eat, but they could watch the performance around the bonfire and then barbecue it on the bonfire.

If the school does not invite an orchestra, the faculty and staff in their own school can make a party. Although the faculty and staff are usually gentle, they are actually hidden and versatile.

However, it is obvious that there are not many people watching the performance around Dong Chen's bonfire, because the things Dong Chen roasted are so delicious that they are waiting to eat.

So Dong Chen's talent in performing is - ancestral barbecue.

In the end, he seduced everyone beside the fire, and then Dong Chen inexplicably won the first prize in this year's talent show and also won an exquisite steel small commemorative medal.

I don’t know if it’s happiness or distress to be able to eat such delicious food before fasting at 12 o’clock.
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