Lin Qi had never been particularly interested in Federal holidays or anything like that. What they lacked was a sense of cultural identification with the holidays.
He felt there was no need to waste several days of his time participating in holidays he did not identify with.
But the people of the Federation, especially those in countries and among peoples within the reach of Federal culture, took these holidays very seriously.
It was hard to imagine that someone could become so fanatical about a foreign country and its unfamiliar holidays!
All because they might have read some books from the Federation, watched some Federal TV dramas or movies, or even just variety shows!
The Cowboy Festival was actually far from an ordinary minor holiday. Its influence in the Federation was extraordinary.
The development of the West was an unavoidable part of Federal culture. Even though many people had never been to the West in their entire lives, they were just as obsessed with Western culture.
Cowboys, gold prospecting, Bounty Hunters.
Most of these things could now only be seen in film and television, but they had once truly happened in the Federal West.
These highly distinctive regional cultures had also become symbols of the Federal western wilderness!
Especially cowboy culture! Empress Fei Lin was dressed like a cowgirl, wearing bell-bottoms and cowboy boots, with two revolvers strapped to her waist!
Of course, the revolvers were props. For just nine dollars and ninety cents, people could rent the two guns from the costume rental booth.
They contained a small firing mechanism. It could not fire bullets, but the hammer could strike special gunpowder, producing an effect and sound similar to an actual shot.
At that moment, there was not the slightest trace of an emperor's dignity about Empress Fei Lin. She