This time Fan Wuyi went to Shanghai and met many people.

Seeing that it’s Christmas, and it’s New Year’s Day soon, the atmosphere here is also very strong. Due to the rendering of the legend of the end of 1999 and the unpredictable expectation of the future of the new millennium, there is even just a short time past. The impact of the Southeast Asian financial crisis has made many young people more at a loss about the unpredictability of the future.

Under such circumstances, where one's own future will go is always the most worrying thing, because in Shanghai, where Westernization is more serious, there are indeed many young people who are accustomed to using Christmas and Spring Festival to vent their emotions.

Fan Wubing didn’t have much interest in this kind of thing at first, but Shen Ying spent a lot of time overseas, especially in Europe, where he had traveled and studied for several years, so he felt more about this kind of western festival. Interested, I insisted on pulling him to listen to some Christmas bells.

"What's so nice about this thing?" Fan Wubing was pulled by Shen Ying and drove his Buga Xulong sports car to the most famous Catholic church near Xujiahui and stopped there.

Xujiahui Catholic Church is a medieval Gothic building with a long cross-shaped plan.

At this time, a lot of glittering small lanterns have been set up on the outside of the church wall, and many church members or young men and women who come here with friends to join in the fun are also very lively.

Xujiahui Catholic Church is the first Catholic church in Shanghai after the Opium War. There are sixty-four pillars carved from Jinshan stone in Suzhou, each composed of ten small columns. The floor is paved with square tiles, and the middle passage is paved with tiles. The doors and windows are all Gothic pointed arches, embedded with stained glass, inlaid with patterns and idols.

There are nineteen altars in the church. The high altar in the middle was shipped from Paris on Easter in 1919. It has high religious and artistic value. The church can accommodate two hundred and five hundred people at the same time.

The exterior of the church is a typical European medieval Gothic style, with a double-spire masonry structure. The ridge is 18 meters high, the bell tower is about 60 meters high, and the two crosses on the spire stand straight into the sky. There is also a cross on the body of the hall, which looks a bit like a roulette wheel, which means that life is like driving a roulette wheel.

In the center of the church body is a disc-shaped relief, which is complex and gorgeous. It looks very much like a Roman clock from a distance. The external structure is made of all-colored red bricks. The roof is covered with beryllium graphite tiles and decorated with many stone sculptures of the Son and God, pure and peaceful.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Xujiahui Catholic Church was severely damaged. Even the two spires of the cross and the large pipe organ were not spared. The church was used as a warehouse and religious activities were interrupted. It was not until Christmas in 1982 that the spire cross was restored, recreating the Gothic style of the Great Farm Hall.

"There are hundreds of churches in Shanghai, right?" Fan Wubing vaguely remembered where he had seen relevant introductions, so he said to Shen Ying who got out of the car.

"Probably so, I am not very clear, it should be." Shen Ying is not very

Zhu Chu.

The church in Shanghai appeared very early. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi cooperated with Western Catholic missionaries to study astronomy, and cooperated with the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci to translate "The Original Geometry". Later he was baptized in Nanjing and became a Catholic.

Later, Xu Guangqi returned to Shanghai to keep the system. Because he was the most famous person in Shanghai at that time, the number of people who believed in Catholicism in Shanghai increased with Xu Guangqi. In the early years of Tianqi, believers in Shanghai built a Catholic church near Xu Guangqi's house. Later, the emperor gave a plaque to hang on the church.

However, during the Manchu and Qing dynasties, the eradication of religion arose, and it was not until after the Opium War that these churches were forced to rehabilitate.

After that, the wind of building churches could not be resisted. Churches of various denominations were continuously built, and there were more and more missionaries in Shanghai, making it the largest foreign religion base in China.

"Have you ever thought of giving me a Christmas present?" Shen Ying suddenly asked Fan Wuyi who was leaning on the car.

"Huh?" Fan Wubing scratched his head, Xindao has been busy recently, but he has forgotten about it.

For Shen Ying, he was naturally embarrassed to say frankly, I have never been a foreigner’s holiday, so naturally I would not prepare any egg-laying gifts. In fact, in the early years, two people did not spend Christmas together. If it is, I am afraid it will only make her sad.

"Sorry, I really didn't think about this. There are too many recent events, which filled my head with all kinds of distracting thoughts," Fan Wubing said to Shen Ying very sorry.

"Fortunately, at least you didn't use irresponsible words to deal with me." Shen Ying didn't seem to be very angry, but smiled and said, "Actually, I also know that you are busy with major things recently.

Fan Wubing apologized and hugged Shen Ying in his arms and said, "I'm sorry, in fact, for me, you are my most precious wealth. Without you, I have no reason to run for other things. ."

"Please tell me whether each is fresh or not, this kind of emphasis has been abused by Hong Kong and Taiwan." Shen Ying made an unbearable expression, and then went all out. "In the past few years in Germany, every year in late autumn, the oak leaves behind the yard where I lived hadn’t been finished, invitations and greeting cards for Christmas parties came in. I’m not a Christian, and I don’t believe in the savior. , But my classmates are enthusiastic about this matter. Regardless of whether they believe in **** or not, as long as they live in the West, few people don’t miss Christmas. Christmas is not only a religious celebration, but also a holiday for family reunion. Whenever I am Seeing the peace and goodwill on the Christmas card, I think of our Spring Festival couplets, Guotai Min An, and family reunion."

Fan Wubing nodded. Although he is not an exotic festival, it does not mean that he is not aware of this purely festive consumption that has gradually spread in the sixth year.

Nowadays, as China gradually moves towards the world, all kinds of imported products and festivals have also become popular. In addition to some changes in beliefs, more cities have provided operators with incalculable business opportunities.

Christmas without gifts cannot be called Christmas. Santa Claus drove a sleigh to give gifts to children, and gifts between relatives and friends are a way of conveying love.

Fan Wubing still remembers that when he got a happy New Year every Spring Festival when he was a child, he always wondered whether his parents who had worked hard for a year would also receive gifts? Fortunately, after Fan Wuyi was born again, the Fan family never did not have the superiority of a material life. The conditions are embarrassing. On the contrary, during the New Year holidays every year, the Fan family’s tradition is to allocate some funds in a targeted manner to help those who need help most.

This way of thinking that ups and downs takes into account the world has also made the Fan family's reputation very good. Just like in the past, the old sister Fan Ting's favorite thing to do was to blackmail a little bit of benefit from the wealthy and enemy's younger brother Fan Wuyi. She came out, but her contribution to donating to school or other public welfare undertakings will definitely make the so-called ten richest Chinese stunned.

The activities on the side of the church had not yet started, so Fan Wuyi walked with Shen Ying holding hands on the pedestrian street, watching the shops on both sides lit up, and there were Christmas trees outside many shops with lights on them. Shining. It is very lively to see promotional staff dressed up as Santa Claus, or to put small gifts to passers-by, or to engage in some publicity activities.

And among the passers-by, you can also see many foreigners of all kinds.

In recent years, China has gradually become affluent, and it has become one of the most popular countries for foreigners. Whether working at home or abroad, many people like to go on business trips before Christmas, so buying gifts Save worry, effort, time and money. After all, the price-performance ratio of Big 6's products is so favorable that it has attracted countless foreigners.

When two people approached a boutique house with a very exquisite decoration, there were not many customers in it, but most of them were foreigners. After a careful look through the floor-to-ceiling windows, they saw that it was a silk underwear shop. shop.

For more than two thousand years, Chinese silk has been regarded as top-grade by the West. There was even a period when silk was equivalent to gold. To this day, silk is still very popular: 8-weight and gorgeous silk nightgowns are for men, and **** and smooth silk underwear is for women. They are indeed very popular.

Around Christmas can be said to be an Olympic for consumers. The profits they bring to businesses are usually 20% of the annual profits, and some even as high as 40%.

For example, this year’s Christmas consumption in the United Kingdom is estimated to be tens of billions of pounds ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ equivalent to 260 billion yuan, a considerable amount.

According to the figures obtained by the Intelligence Research Department of Fan's Investment Group, the output value of Christmas trees and other gifts exported overseas this year has exceeded one billion US dollars, and this number is still rising.

Two people walked in and took a closer look, only to realize that this shop is really authentic Suzhou silk, but the overall packaging of the shop is a European style that suits the taste of foreigners, and it looks a little special. .

"That's all right, let me give you a set of silk underwear!" Fan Wubing suddenly saw the set of silk underwear on the opposite model, and said to Shen Ying with excitement.

"Rogue One Ten" Shen Ying glanced at that set of underwear, and immediately said with a flushed face.

It should be said that the workmanship and texture of the silk underwear are excellent, but the shape is a bit special. After all, some underwear designs to increase the fun of the bed, at this time, in addition to being very popular in Japan, they are openly sold in China. The situation is still very rare.

Fan Wu was very interested. I started to figure it out in my heart, how many sets should I buy?