Chapter 800 The Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is full
While everyone was busy, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month came, and there were more people selling lanterns. Xiaqiu Village sold the best because of mass production.
Other bamboo craftsmen need to get their own bamboo to make a lantern, then roll it, and then buy paper of various colors and paste it on.
Compared with a person doing only one thing and doing many things, the former is obviously more efficient. This is the principle of assembly line operation.
In Nanjing, the factory in Xiaqiu Village specializes in selling two types of lanterns, a larger one for people to hang outside the window, and a smaller one for children to carry.
However, the color and appearance are also single, there are only two kinds, but the price is cheap and everyone can afford it, and they also come with a small candle as a gift.
Then we sell candles. This one is paraffin wax, which is cheap and comes in all sizes, not butter wax.
In the past, candles were made of fats, such as suet, butter, beeswax and white waxworm wax.
Nothing here is cheap, and ordinary people cannot afford it. They usually put the oil cup in the lantern and add a wick to light it.
Since petroleum has been continuously transported and processed, paraffin has appeared. You can’t even think about it. It is a by-product.
There is also petrolatum, which is Vaseline, which will inevitably appear during refining, including the subsequent asphalt.
"The ones sold are all single-color ones, but the candles we use here are colorful, but the best ones are the small battery-powered lanterns."
Zhu Yuanzhang asked the minister again today They came to have a party, and the families of the ministers also came, and they will continue their vacation tomorrow.
There are only two types of lanterns sold in Xiaqiu Village. They will not be changed and they look very monotonous. Because they are cheap, everyone buys a lot of them.
But today is supposed to be a lantern festival, so not all of them buy Qiu Cun. Some buy candles, small candles, which are enough to burn for half an hour.
The ministers had nothing to say. Their families came and enjoyed it again. As for the single-color things they were selling, they understood.
Xiaqiu Village is unwilling to attack people who specialize in selling lanterns, so they count on making money from lantern festivals a few times a year.
Xiaqiu Village also wholesales candles to these lantern sellers. The candles are very cheap. Do not use animal fats and oils to make wax.
Because animal fat and vegetable oil from lamps can be used to make soap and toilet soap, and petroleum wax is exchanged, Xiaqiu Village takes advantage.
It is a waste to light and burn a large piece of tallow with a diameter of ten centimeters and a height of fifty centimeters. Use twice the amount of paraffin to replace it.
After changing it back, you can make soap and toilet soap, and there is also glycerin
Glycerin can be purified and used for people in winter, and used for medicine in normal times. This does not cost much to make medicine, but it consumes a lot to make explosives.
The songs are singing and the dancing is dancing.
Everyone continued to gather here at Kowloon Bridge, and then there were glutinous rice balls. Glutinous rice balls are made with hands, not dumplings, but beans.The kind of sandbag.
The two hands need to be balled up and down. It is actually not difficult. Children can learn it in a few minutes and practice it by kneading mud.
Some people have good gastrointestinal function and can eat a lot, while others can only eat one or two to taste, and then eat vegetables. If they really want to eat dumplings as their staple food.
"Everyone, if you are not busy eating, we will go to the Qinhuai River to watch the lantern festival later. This year it is all our money."
Zhu Yuanzhang ate two glutinous rice balls and refused to eat , tell others to slow down and go see the lanterns.
The ministers already know today's program schedule. There are a large group of painted boats parked on the moat early.
The money provided by the palace was used to put tens of thousands of water lanterns, and all the lanterns in the streets and alleys came from the palace.
It starts on the first day of the Lunar New Year. After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, some of it is reduced and so on. It is too expensive. On the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, it is time to add more lanterns until the end of the month.
Everyone goes out for a walk at night, and there are lights for lighting when they come home late. People who live next to the street also like to have the lights on outside. Anyway, it does not affect sleep. There are no glass windows, nor paper ones. The windows are directly covered with boards at night. Block.
In the summer, you can put a screen made of thread on the window, which will keep you cool and prevent mosquitoes from entering the house. Generally, the effect is not very good. Mosquitoes and flies can still get in. Just walk through the door.
As expected, everyone slowed down and went to the boat to continue drinking. However, one boat could not carry too many people and they needed to be separated. The boat was too high to cross the bridge.
Children and people who don’t drink should eat enough. Don’t pack too many glutinous rice balls, an average of four or five per person. Older people eat one, after all, it’s a holiday.
Then everyone eats dumplings. There are all types of dumpling fillings, including pig, beef and sheep, plus leek, garlic, bamboo fungus, mushroom, fish, sauerkraut and radish. Yes, there are both meat and vegetables.
I made a lot of dumplings, and put some of them in the ice cellar to freeze, so that the minister and his family can take them with them when they go home tomorrow. The ice will last for two days.
There is no need to cook anymore. If you want to cook, just stir-fry. If you don’t want to stir-fry, then don’t you have the pickles and pickles brought back from Xiaqiu Village?
When everyone is about the same. , getting ready to set off fireworks, came to the moat and boarded a boat. Some children were already sleeping.
The main ministers naturally had to be on the same boat with Zhu Yuanzhang, including the ministers of various ministries, the imperial censors, Liu Bowen and Wei Su, and several of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons.
The rest are the twenty-four people from Xiaqiu Village and the guards. There is exactly one boat, and there is no room for more.
Except for the kind of boat that doesn’t fit over a bridge and only moves within a range.
The director touched his chest from time to time and put a stack of paper in his arms, ready to receive inquiries. He was learning more and more things now.
"We looked at the people playing on the shore and felt comfortable. They were wearing new clothes. The cotton-padded clothes were sold in the store."
Zhu Yuanzhang held up the telescope and looked at it. Everyone had one in hand. Some people are short-sighted and eccentric, and wear glasses.
Everyone heard that Zhu YuanAfter Zhang's words, they all looked at the shore. The cotton-padded jacket was in line with Zhu Wentian's aesthetics, not the kind of cotton-padded jacket seen in movies.
The outside is uniformly flat, but in order to seal the cotton inside, small grids are sewn with threads, which cannot be seen from the outside.
Then there are four pockets. They are very straight after being ironed, but they are not the color of a military coat. Men's are usually blue, women's are pink, and children's are light yellow. There is no white. .
The styles are the same, but the sleeves are different. Everyone is afraid that the sleeves will get dirty and be damaged easily, so they find cloth outside and wrap it up again, so they can just remove the cloth.
Children carry straw paper in their pockets. The straw paper is not valuable and is used to wipe their noses. Otherwise, they would rub it with their sleeves.
There are bamboo trash cans on the roadside, which are used for throwing paper and eating sticks for eating fried skewers. There were no bamboo trash cans on the roadside before, so they were just thrown on the ground.
Nowadays, when there is a trash can, people are very conscious and will throw it in when they need to throw something away. The locals want to maintain their pride, and those from outside are afraid of being embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, the lanterns are beautiful and colorful, but it is a pity that they will be gone in two days. It is too wasteful of wax, so why not sell the wax to the people."
Hu Weiyong finally found a chance to talk, He is now marginalized, powerless and helpless. He really can't stand up to that expert who has no face to see others.
"Hu Qing is right, it should be long, and electric lights can be used." Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to provide lighting to the people of Nanjing every night.
Li Chang took a deep breath and reached into his arms. "Your Majesty, the village has a new oil lamp made of asbestos mesh, which can burn gasoline." Please remember to bookmark it. The latest website is the fastest and free to find books without anti-theft. To add books, you can add QQ group 952868558