Chapter 335 Proposal(1)_1
The ’Lantern Festival’ is also known as ’Yuanxiao Festival’. The term ’Yuan’ refers to the first lunar month, and ’xiao’ was an ancient term for night. Given that the full moon on the fifteenth day is the first of the year, the fifteenth of the first lunar month is hence known as the ’Yuanxiao Festival’. It is also known as Little New Year, Yuanxi, or Lantern Festival, being the first significant festival after Spring Festival.
The Lantern Festival in the Great Jin Nation was similar to the custom of Cai Wei’s world, where on the bright moonlit night, lanterns were lit and lantern riddles played, lion dances and dragon dances performed, with the entire nation celebrating, creating an incredibly bustling atmosphere.
After Cai Wei and her group solved some lantern riddles, they walked through the lively and bustling streets, making their way to Cao Jin’s restaurant while enjoying friendly banter.
Along the way, Cai Wei saw an old blind lady accompanied by a little girl of around eight or nine, shivering as they begged among the crowd. The freezing weather had turned their lips violet, their worn and thin clothing no match for the cold. Their pale faces made them seem all the more pitiful.
Having witnessed the death of an old beggar when she first arrived in this world, Cai Wei made it a habit to offer some coins every time she encountered a beggar. Seeing these pitiful elders and the young girl, she could not turn a blind eye. She took out her purse and poured out all the scattered silver inside; around seven or eight taels, which she then placed in the old lady’s hand.
Upon examining the unexpected windfall, the old lady was so shocked that with her granddaughter, she attempted to kowtow to Cai Wei which Cai Wei promptly stopped.
"Old lady, how can you, at such age, bow to me? Wouldn’t that be extremely ill-fated?"