Chapter 21 Chinese Style
During the break of the meal, the folk singer left the stage and a host walked onto the stage. The men's Hanfu he was wearing attracted Liu Lan's attention.
"Welcome everyone to Shiguang Music Restaurant tonight. This month, the music theme of our restaurant is Chinese style music, so I specially changed into this Hanfu today to echo the theme. From today on, there will be singers singing ancient style songs for everyone at 7 o'clock every night, and there will be interesting interactive games in the middle.
To attract customers, the restaurant chooses a theme every month, invites singers to sing and organizes some activities around the theme. Last month's theme was Christmas Peppa Pig, and each table of customers who came to eat received a Peppa Pig doll dressed in Santa Claus costume when they paid the bill.
Yu Zhan saw the smile on Liu Man's face and couldn't help asking, "What's so funny about this host?"
"I'm laughing at his clothes."
Yu Zhan looked at the Hanfu the host was wearing. It was dark blue and similar to what he had seen on TV. It was elegant and retro. He didn't see anything wrong with it. "What's wrong with this outfit?"
"Our Han Chinese clothing always has the left lapel overlapping the right lapel, and the lapel should open to the right. Look carefully at his Hanfu."
As soon as Liu Man said this, Yu Zhan realized that the host's clothes were turned inside out, and asked curiously, "Is there any particular meaning behind this?"
"It's very particular. The left lapel covering the right lapel is called right lapel, and the other way around is called left lapel. Right lapel is the respectful and ceremonial dress of the Han Dynasty. Those who wear left lapel clothes are from the barbaric land. If he were to walk on the streets of our Han Dynasty wearing this kind of clothes, he would probably be arrested by the government."
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Yu Zhan put his hand to his lips and couldn't help laughing. "What era is this? This is just a prop costume. I guess no one else noticed this mistake except you. And now which places do you think are barbaric? I was in the United States before. The Indians in the American continent during the Han Dynasty were probably no different from savages. Can we infer that the United States is a barbaric place?"
"I don't mean to be serious. I just feel uncomfortable looking at it and want to laugh. This kind of Hanfu is not orthodox. You are right. It is at most a costume for theatrical performances."
Liu Lan has now completely accepted her new identity and has also integrated the memories of her previous owner. She can look at her ancient self from the perspective of a modern person.
"I noticed that your hobbies are quite retro, such as calligraphy and Hanfu," Yu Zhan was more accepting of Western culture and did not understand these Chinese-style things.
"These are all things I looked up on the Internet before," Liu Lan laughed.
The two were chatting and didn't notice a singer walking onto the stage. The diners cheered and the host shouted, "Does anyone know who she is?"
"Know."
"Xiao Ke'er, Xiao Ke'er."
"They actually invited Xiao Ke'er. Luckily we chose this restaurant to have dinner today. We are so lucky," said two female guests at the table next to Liu Lan excitedly.
Who is Xiao Ke'er?
Liu Lan and Yu Zhan looked at each other.
Liu Lan opened her phone and searched on Baidu.
Baidu says that Xiao Ke'er is a very popular online singer recently. She specializes in singing ancient style songs. She initially posted audios on Douyin and became popular because of her original and novel songs and her unique clear and melodious voice.
After all, Liu Man was a professional student of Western classical music and didn't bother to pay attention to these online music. Yu Zhan had never even heard of the app Tik Tok, let alone those internet celebrities.
Xiao Ke'er is a petite girl. She was wearing a light pink Hanfu, which made her look particularly playful and cute. Liu Lan took a look and found nothing wrong with her clothes.
"Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Ke'er. I'm very happy that Shiguang Music Restaurant can give me the opportunity to perform here," As expected of a singer, Xiao Ke'er has a very nice voice.
"Now I will sing a song "Xiao Yao You" for everyone."
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a burst of screams at the scene, and many people took out their mobile phones and started taking pictures of her.
Liu Lan turned sideways, ready to listen to her singing.
“There is a fish in the North Sea, its name is Kun. They all say that Kun is so big, but no one knows how many thousand miles long it is…” The lyrics of this song are adapted from Zhuangzi’s "Xiao Yao You". Xiao Ke’er composed and arranged the music, and it is her famous work, which has received more than three million likes on Douyin.
The two girls sitting next to Liu Lan started singing along.
"It's really interesting that Zhuang Zhou's articles can be sung in this way. I think it sounds very nice."
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