549. Cold Mountain Bells
Chen Song didn't care so much about the three tourists who came to visit this time. He handed over the reception work to Angelina and concentrated on cleaning up the ranch and plantation. In addition, he had to assist the town in preparing for the Spring Festival.
Chen Daren and Luo Qiulian are not bored. They decorate the manor. The manor is so large and there are so many houses. It is not easy to fill the entire manor with the atmosphere of the previous New Year.
Gradually, the town began to change.
First, red lanterns were hung on the streets of the town, some of which were covered with the word "Fu" and some of which were posted with the word "Hi". Then, I don't know which red lantern I got from, and Chen Song was almost scared to sit on the ground after seeing it.
Secondly, there are window flowers in the doors and windows of the shops in the town. Store owners like Kerui who like Chinese elements also invited pictures of gods and Buddhas in the store. Some pictures are Bodhisattvas, some pictures are Buddhas, some pictures are the God of Wealth or Martial God of Wealth, and some pictures are the Uncle Jiu holding a peach wood sword...
The square in the town is the most festive event for the upcoming Spring Festival. The fat town mayor presided over the construction of a traditional Chinese seven-story building with Hanshan Temple on it!
Chen Song was shocked when he saw this seven-story building. Later he realized that this was an inflatable plastic building, no wonder it could be built overnight.
The wind was strong by the sea, and a gust of sea breeze blew across Hanshan Temple and swayed. Chen Song was puzzled. He asked the fat town mayor: "Why are you doing such a thing? Do you know what kind of building this is? This is not the Forbidden City."
The fat mayor looked regretful: "Actually, my first choice is the Forbidden City, but that is too popular and was bought by Denmark's Chinatown. Oh, this is the product of the Nordic New China Elements Company. How about it, it's great, right?"
Chen Song smiled bitterly and said, "It's really great, but why did you buy this for?"
The fat mayor pointed to the chime and said, "To use it with them."
Chen Song patted his forehead and said, "Do you know what words are written on it?"
"The name of a temple. The name of this temple is very nice and beautiful, right?" asked the fat mayor.
Chen Song said: "Yes, it is called Hanshan Temple. It is related to a poem in our traditional culture. That poem is also very nice and beautiful."
The fat town mayor slapped his fat hands and said, "That's right, that's the name you mentioned, Hanshan Temple. Every year during the Chinese New Year, this temple will ring a big bell, ringing one hundred and eight times."
Chen Song remembered that he had said this before, and he asked, "Who said this?"
The mayor of Fat Town said: "I asked someone to contact a folklore professor at your national capital university. He said that your earliest New Year's Eve bell was sent out in this temple. Now the temple has cast a new bronze bell, which is 108 tons and 8.6 meters high, and is engraved with Buddhist scriptures. It is the largest Buddhist bell in the world recognized by the Guinness Record."
Chen Song scratched his head anxiously. What happened? Why didn’t he know?
He felt that the fat mayor had been fooled, so he took out his cell phone to check it out.
As a result, he found out that he was ignorant. China does have the custom of ringing the bronze bell on New Year's Eve, but it is not a tradition since ancient times, but a custom that has emerged in recent years.
This custom is imported, originated in 1979, not long after China and Japan formally established diplomatic relations, and Hanshan Temple is an ancient Chinese temple with great influence in Japan. So a Japanese Buddhist who visited Hanshan Temple suggested to the government, saying why not transplant the custom of the New Year bell ringing in Japan to Hanshan Temple?
The government adopted this suggestion, and the bell ringing on New Year's Eve became a relic of Hanshan Temple. Later, temples across the country followed Hanshan Temple and began to ring the bell on New Year's Eve to welcome the New Year.
If Chen Song didn't search online, he wouldn't know this allusion, after all, he was not a monk.
Iceland is a country with small populations. In winter, the people are seriously lacking in entertainment. In fact, because the night is too long, they have no activities. In this way, the media lacks local news that can be reported.
The Spring Festival activities held in Liuying Town attracted the media and at least created many topics for them.
Starting from the 29th day of the 12th lunar month, as the town's Spring Festival deployment approaches completion, more and more media have rushed to the town to report. At the same time, overseas Chinese in Iceland have also brought their families to come.
The name and photos of Liuying Town have frequently appeared on TV and newspapers in the past two days. In the past, this situation often accompanied by someone's death, and Liuying Town was mentioned only when the TV station issued an obituary.
Now it is different. The Spring Festival event in Liuying Town has become the most popular event in Iceland in the next few days.
The Chinese were happy to use this to increase their ethnic influence. They came to the town one after another. Chen Song's manor suddenly began to receive a large number of customers, and the rooms were suddenly full!
Chen Song was stunned. He had no intention of receiving tourists seriously, so there were no full-time service staff in the manor. Xiao Ke and Angelina were both wild fox Zen who became monks halfway!
There are not many hotels in the town, because of the arrival of tourists, every household becomes busy and no one can support him.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, this situation became more and more serious. Chen Song was feeling sad about how to deal with the garbage. Rhine hurried over: "A car has driven to the door again. Boss, business is booming."
Chen Song was very upset: "Made, why are you running towards us?"
Rhine said in surprise: "You are not happy to have money to make money?"
Chen Song said angrily: "You know that you are happy to make money, but do I have money to make money?"
He quoted high prices to domestic tourists because he had to take care of food, borrowed a car, provided tour guides or even arranged activities. Domestic tourists were willing to accept such prices.
But his offer to his fellow Icelanders could not be so high. First, the family did not eat in the manor, but came to stay; second, everyone belonged to the same club. Even if Chen Song didn't know some of them, they all had common friends. In this way, Chen Song could not have a high price, otherwise he would have a bad reputation.
Chen Daren and Luo Qiulian didn't know this. They looked at their son's business as they were happier. After finding out that Chen Song was not very excited, they became strange and asked him what was going on.
Chen Song had no choice but to explain in a solid way: "Although there are many people, they don't make much money."
Chen Daren said: "Then you just raise the housing prices. Wouldn't you make money in this way?"
Chen Song shook his head and said, "Actually, it's not a problem of money in essence, because I don't like money."
Chen Daren smiled, he touched his son's head and said, "Why are you so good at talking lies with your eyes open?"
Chen Song couldn't explain, so he changed the reason again: "Oh, more importantly, I don't have enough waiters to use it. You see, I can't take care of it here."
Chen Daren rolled up his sleeves and said, "This is simple. Your mother and I just happened to have nothing to do. Let's go to work as waiters."
Chapter completed!