After coding a chapter on the plane, I wrote it as soon as I landed. It’s awesome (ง•̀_•́)ง
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist looks at the short vertical lines he carved on the clay tablet. When the clay tablet marked December has finished drawing the last line representing the 31st, it means that the old year is over.
These clay tablets are the protagonist’s own calendar tool, which she started using this spring.
Since the calendar was calculated by himself, the protagonist naturally copied the current calendar according to the most familiar solar calendar. After nearly a year of use, no obvious errors were found in the monthly climate.
Therefore, the protagonist can judge from this that the place he is in is still the earth, or at least a place that is highly similar to the earth in terms of astronomical calendar. The revolution here is also 365 days, and the rotation is also 24 hours.
This saves the protagonist a lot of trouble. If it is a new environment and he needs to create his own calendar, it will be embarrassing. There is no problem in asking him to copy the solar calendar, but making a calendar is a dark technology and he does not know how to do it. This involves To the knowledge of astronomy.
In order to facilitate memory, the protagonist abandoned the lunar calendar that he did not understand, and New Year's Day on January 1 of the solar calendar naturally became the Spring Festival, just like Japan's previous calendar reform.
After the end of December 31st of 3rd year, tomorrow is the new year, the Spring Festival (New Year's Day) of 4th year.
This year's Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival for the protagonist after following the calendar, and he is not prepared to celebrate this festival alone.
He has always wanted to cultivate the cohesion of the Divine Envoy King's Legion. Culture is a very important link. And what culture is more direct and effective than the New Year culture?
On December 31st, the protagonist summoned all the male ants in [Linshui City] to the conference room and announced that the next day would be the first day of the new year and a banquet would be held.
There are not all high-level male ants gathered in [Linshui City]. For example, Lan Bofei led his army to stay in the main nest [Qingqiu City]. However, most of the legion commanders follow the protagonist and spend the winter in [Linshui City], where the high-level male ants account for more than 80% of the country's population.
Most of the male ants were summoned to the conference room by the protagonist. At first they thought something big was going to happen, for example, the enemy was about to attack.
As a result, the protagonist suddenly announced such news that confused them: Tomorrow is the first day of the new year?
Male ants have the concept of a year, but in their concept, a year is a collection of four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. When the four seasons are over, the year is over.
In the consciousness of ants, there is no concept of the beginning and end of a year. The changes between the four seasons are not very clear. It is difficult to say which day at the turn of spring and summer belongs to spring and which day belongs to summer. Maybe it was very cold yesterday, like spring, but the next day the temperature soared like summer, and a week later a thunderstorm brought the temperature back to the cold spring state.
Moreover, what practical significance does it have for ants to know the specific dates when the year begins and ends? For ants, their current lives seem to be meaningless.
Therefore, for thousands of years, the male ants in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom have never paid attention to this issue: which day is the beginning of the year and which day is the end.
If they have to get entangled, most male ants will think that the year begins in spring and ends in winter. Based on their knowledge, they cannot fix the starting and ending points to a specific day.
Now that the God Envoy King has announced such a date, the male ants have said that they have remembered it. This must be a "divine decree". Those who don't know how serious it is, they don't quite understand it, but they feel that they don't need to understand it, so they just obey it.
Although the protagonist wants to take the opportunity to popularize more knowledge about the calendar and time, the vast majority of male ants seem to lack interest. In terms of curiosity, they are far less strong than the big worker ants.
The protagonist can only proceed step by step. The development of a civilization requires a large number of individuals who can think independently. Although ants are very collective, they are very lacking in individual thinking.
The big worker ants are a good example, but not enough, and the male ants have only shown subjective initiative in military and political affairs. The protagonist consciously changes this situation, but with little success. Sometimes he feels that his efforts are in the wrong direction. The physiological structure of ants is very different from that of humans. Is it wrong to ask them to evolve according to the development path of humans? Doomed to only achieve twice the result with half the effort?
But the protagonist is still working hard. With his ability, he doesn't know how to take a path of civilization evolution with ant characteristics. He can only follow the existing experience of the human world. This is the only experience he can rely on.
After announcing that the next day is the Spring Festival, the protagonist announces that there will be a grand festive banquet during the Spring Festival.
For ants, there are never any cultural programs. Worker ants and soldier ants only know how to perform tasks and meet basic survival needs. Male ants do have basic communication after work. This is a certain form of communication. Small talk, but the topic is still around the politics and military that they are interested in, such as exchanging information packages about wars or meetings they have participated in.
Therefore, the only Spring Festival activity that the protagonist can think of that involves all the ants is the banquet, which means eating.
Anyway, eating is the instinct of living things. Both advanced and low-level creatures have this need. It is enduring and irreplaceable. Eating is inseparable from any national festival, and each nation has developed its own unique festival foods.
The protagonist also feels that eating is the only way to celebrate the festival that can interest all ants.
Thanks to the unification of the south bank of the river and the popularization of agriculture, the entire territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion has achieved a bumper harvest this year, and the food inventory has increased significantly, which is enough to support a Spring Festival dinner according to the protagonist's wishes.
On the Spring Festival, all worker ants and soldier ants can eat ordinary food without restraint, and luxury food such as high-end food and honeydew are also provided for an additional month. Of course, all these foods need to be eaten on the same day, otherwise the protagonist will not have enough scribes to record the consumption and balance of each ant.
As for the male ants and queen ants, they have an unlimited supply of high-grade food and honeydew. Fortunately, the ants have sufficient collective consciousness and will not waste food or stretch themselves to death. This is stronger than many humans in the 21st century.
The queen ants enjoyed their meals individually in their bedrooms, while the banquet of the male ants was held together in the conference room, where the protagonist temporarily arranged some simple tables and chairs.
Since the advancement of woodworking technology through the use of copperware enabled the production of tables and chairs, more and more male ants have become accustomed to resting and eating with their bellies on chairs like the protagonist.
