This year's Longevity Festival was to be held with great grandeur due to the arrival of foreign envoys offering their congratulations.
This is the first time since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty that foreign envoys have come to pay tribute. For Great Zhou, this is an extremely important matter. The court ministers are taking it very seriously, though the emperor himself, whose birthday is being celebrated, seems less concerned.
In recent days, the ministers have been discussing one matter. That is whether the emperor should go to worship at the Confucius Temple on the day of the Longevity Festival.
The foreign envoys admire the culture of the Central Plains and revere the two sages, Confucius and Mencius. Previously, the Prince of Wusun explicitly requested in advance that Great Zhou establish an academy in Wusun.
