The wonderful "orange" Dutch King's Day
Happiness can actually be simple!
On the other side of the mountain, on the other side of the sea, there is a group of "tall men who love orange", they are lively and intelligent, they are naughty and sensitive! They live freely in the orange kingdom, and april 27 is their King's Day every year. Everyone there, from the king to the commoners, always had a way to spend the least amount of money and have the most joy! Let's take a look at how they celebrate King's Day!
Origin of King's Day
In fact, the Dutch lived the "King's Day" from 2014, before that it was "Queen's Day", and then before that it was "Princess Day"! The current King of the Netherlands, William Alexander, is the first male monarch of the Netherlands since the death of his great-grandfather William III in 1890. Unlike the British royal family, panning for a little princess, the Dutch royal family seems to be a princess and a queen. No, the current King William gave birth to three more little princesses with his queen in one go!
As early as 1885, when Princess Wilhelmina was on her 5th birthday, the Netherlands began to celebrate "Princess Day", and in 1890, when Princess Wilhelmina ascended the throne as queen, there began to be "Queen's Day". At that time, Queen's Day was celebrated on August 31, the Queen's birthday, and also celebrated the summer harvest. Because the birthday of King William of the Netherlands is now April 27, "King's Day" has been moved to April 27. In this more than 100 years of history, only King William's mother, because her birthday is in winter, is not suitable for everyone to party outside, so she has used the birthday of the previous queen, April 30, as "Queen's Day". It can be seen that the Dutch royal family is also informal in order to be able to have a happy carnival for everyone.
Orange cake Tompouuce
On King's Day, everyone eats the orange "Tompouce" cake unique to the Netherlands, the ceiling of the Dutch cake world. The upper and lower layers of the "Tompouce" cake are crispy puff pastry, filled with airy cream fillings, and finally brushed with a layer of jelly orange jam. Because of this very unique design, this cake is impossible to eat gracefully. Because no matter how gracefully you raise the fork, a knife down, the puff pastry will always squeeze the cream in the middle out of all kinds of awkward looks. In the end, you have to turn the cake over and eat it, or just get started, grab the puff pastry and eat it first, and then solve the cream filling. All in all, you have to be sloppy, eat a little flower face, and make everyone laugh at each other to be the essence of Get king's day.
As a friendly reminder, if you can't come to the Netherlands around The King's Day, you won't miss the "Tompouce" cake! However, on weekdays, the "Tompouce" cake is pink, and it is only changed to "orange" around King's Day!
Orange Drag & Traditional Game
Speaking of "orange" on King's Day, not only the "Tompouce" cake, but also almost every Dutchman. If on King's Day you want to go to a party but don't want to dress too abruptly, there's only one way... It is to wear yourself "orange" from head to toe, because the whole of Holland is already an orange ocean. Hurry up and find out your craziest and most dazzling "orange" clothes, so that you can truly experience a Dutch king's day. In the Netherlands, creativity and inexpensiveness are the eternal fashion philosophy! Brains racing!
The Dutch themselves will admit bluntly that they play a lot of "silly" games on King's Day. For example, a game called "Sjoelen" (sandpot ball) uses a wooden disc to hit a distant wooden disc, a bit like an enlarged version of the "playing marbles" game. There is also a traditional game called "Koekhappen" (bite pie or bite cake, anyway, these two big blues were pulled to bite on King's Day). The rules of the game are to hang the cake with a rope and then the contestants have to eat the cake blindfolded. Listening to the reservation program of the bride and groom at our wedding, if you have the opportunity to come to the Netherlands for "King's Day", you have to recommend a few of our wedding games to the Dutch, maybe it has become popular in the Netherlands since then.
The flea market is plentiful
Dutch King's Day not only does not cost money, but also makes money! On King's Day, you can set up stalls in designated locations in the city for free, spread out small carpets, and sell your old toys, clothes, books, plates, and old home appliances that you don't have at home! You can also exercise your child's financial management ability and bargaining ability, do not underestimate this second-hand market Oh, earn a few dozen euros is absolutely no problem, but also solved the "garbage" at home, in one fell swoop. The key to the profitability of the second-hand market market is location, location, location! The mother of the big blue neighbor, in order to seize a good stall with the most flow of people a few years ago, got up at 6 o'clock to take a seat in the town square!
Having said all that, would you like to go to the Netherlands to experience a "King's Day"? From now on, if you buy a one-way or round-trip ticket from Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Hangzhou to Amsterdam on the KLM website, you will receive a 4% discount, which is valid for a long time and can be combined with other promotions, only in economy class. (Transfers in Aramco are not included in the scope of this promotion, and the details are subject to the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines website.) ）