Culture
Important events
Name
Details
Seeding Festival
Villages working the fields together during the day, and celebrating surviving the Cold season at night.
First Harvest Trade
Villagers traveling to towns, where they will trade the result of the first harvest.
First Harvest Festival
Celebrating the first harvest during a week-long festival, where The Connection is consumed a lot.
Second Harvest Trade
Villagers traveling to towns, where they will trade the result of the second harvest.
Second Harvest Festival
Celebrating the second harvest, last week of the year.
Remembering the dead. Takes place at the first day of the second harvest festival.
Consuming a symbolic last warm drink before the Cold Season starts. Last day of the second harvest festival.
Hobbies
Name
Practicioners
Details
Fern-raising
Middle & Upper Class
Raising ferns from a family's original home areas, as a symbol for honoring where the family came from.
Bead-weaving
All
Creating symmetrical bead-patterns of varying colors.
Gardening
Middle & Upper Class
Planning and maintaining small gardens, with limited help of workers, to symbolize societal productivity.
Gateball
Middle & Upper Class
Competitive hitting balls through gates for points on an obstacle course.
Archery
Lower & Upper Class
The rich will shoot moving targets to illustrate one's control. Villagers will fire all kinds of immobile targets as a drinking game.
Hunting
Upper Class
Organized hunting of large and dangerous prey. Frowned upon by most.
Flute
All
Musical skills performed as a hobby or as a sidejob. Buskers always have a primary job on top of their performances.
Violin
Middle & Upper Class
The Middle Class may perform for both prestige and extra income, the Upper Class only does this for prestige.
Piano
Upper Class
A extremely expensive hobby performed to entertain guests.
Comments