Valroni culture

Valroni culture refers to the culture of Valron, which is primarily a mix of Viodoxan culture and foreign influences, stemming from Viodoxan Hanzeizh roots and later fusing with other foreign cultures as people immigrated to the area, such as the Aurlunoren and Ryzani. It is rare to find a Valroni whose parents were born in Valron or heritage fully Valroni.

Identity
From the foundation of Valron to the Great Migrations of Valronis back to Valron, the government seperated the people from Lord, High Council, Dyntoi and Commoner. Though in the Autumn of 165 TE, the High Council and Mel E. V. O'Valmen decided to make a 6 tier hierarchy starting from Lord, National Assembly, Bourgeois, Artisans, Peasants, Slumsmen and a out of tier group known as the Mandatory Volunteer Workers

Valron's major ethnic group, the Valroni's can be found around the 25% of IAU, 100% of Kingdom of Valron (of course, this is wear its from), >1% of Aurlunor and >1% of Yimmu-Audal, making them a small minority of the world population.

The reason why most of Valronis follow Valroni culture is that most non-Valronis in Valron were assimilated into Valroni culture, though some kept roots of their culture and language. At the same time some non-Valroni culture went in to Valroni culture, like how Ryzani culture had a profound impact on Valroni culture.

Clothing
Valroni people having both summer and winter, have seperate clothings for each. Summer clothing is usually made of silk as it is a light fabric designed to cool the body. Clothing usually a mix of blue, white and gold. pants and dresses usually brown or grey. Women usually have blue diamond embroidery sown at the end of their sleeves with golden tips with a belt made of a mix of leather and iron. In Summer, males usually wear pants and boots if they are going out. Though fashion for male labourers is much different, as they wear a tank top and some trousers, usually made of hemp and paired with a bamboo hat. Valroni clothing has to be cooling as the lowlands of Valron (Valron City, Krigor and Kalai Bali) are usually scorching hot (even going up to 57 degrees celsius) for this silk is used to keep a person cool. In the highlands however they have to be warm as the highlands are known for being very cold.

Despite the warm weather, it is very common to see people wearing long sleeve button up shirts with a tie, a waistcoat, a suit or blazer with a mackintosh or coat wearing long trousers, with woolen underwear and socks with leather boots with iron tipped laces. People generally use suspenders to prevent their trousers from dropping. The trousers also having a buckle, a zip and a button. Valronis generally wear bowler hats, but flat caps aren't uncommon. Valroni women generally wear a heavy dress, a petticoat with a corset, a chemise under the dress where the neck is to catch sweat, a plaited bonnet or mobcap and rarely a pinafore. Students tend to wear trousers with long sleeved button up shirts with a tie, waistcoat, suit and mackintosh if they are male and female students generally wear a heavy dress with a blouse or a pinafore with a chemise to catch sweat, with a petticoat and corset. Though in early Era of Frihet, corsets and crinolines are falling out of fashion, with women preferring to wear a chemise, a dress and a blouse or a pinafore. All Valronis wear boots.

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 * The corset generally is laced and tied up with iron tips.
 * Petticoats and mobcaps are generally starched.
 * Mobcaps are always plaited.
 * How people could tell social class from people is the amount of plaits.
 * Servants generally wear mobcaps.
 * If the servants mobcaps has lots of plaits and well starched, they are a upper servant while lower amount of plaits and not well starched means that they are a lower servant like a scullery maid.
 * Richer women also wear crinolines to make their dress look puffier.
 * Valroni clothes generally have lots of places where you need to tie knots, some buttons, hooks, zippers, fliers and more.

Cuisine
Main article: Valroni cuisine

Valroni foods are intended to reduce the waste from an animal while also feeding the most amount of people. Food is often predominantly served hot, heavily spiced, with meat or seafood, accompanied by colder sides. Valronis tend to be very slim and underweight. Many initiatives have been set up to no avail. Valronis generally eat with a pair of chopsticks. Made from twigs if poorer. Bamboo or wood if richer. Metal, lacquer, ceramic or clay of the comfortable and intricately designed for the richest. Plates and bowls are generally either made of wood, metal, lacquer or ceramic.

Valronis generally own gardens growing many vegetables and fruits. Usually owning animals like fowl (e.g. bantams, sparrows, chickens, quails, pigeons, ducks, swans and more), pigs, sheep, rodents (like voles, dormice) and other animals to have some food supply. Many cultivars of plants exist making a biodiverse environment with all edible plants and herbs having tens or even hundreds of thousands of cultivars. This goes so far that there are many breeds of cultivated animals in Valron. Most Valronis tend to be lactose intolerant as milk isn't popular in Valron, with the milk having to be fermented for the Valroni to digest without having any problems.

In Valron it is very easy to find street side wholesellers, peddlers and hawkers. Wholesellers generally sell produce and meat, peddlers sell sundry items and hawkers sell food and drink. People generally like to buy food from hawkers. Tea is the primary drink with few coffee drinkers. Alcohol is generally drunk on occasion. Food is never wasted in Valron. Byproducts of the production of food is generally used in Valroni cooking, an example is the solid moromi from soy sauce production is used to flavour many foods, crustaceon shells are used to flavour broth; things like barley waste from beer production is used to flavour foods and is used as a protein supplement; egg shells are used to provide calcium; fruit and vegetable skins are used in food and more.


 * Breakfast - Breakfast in Valron is predominantly high in starches as most Valronis need energy to get by the day. Breakfast usually consists in a rice porridge or gruel with liver or blood sausages, fried eggs and pickled vegetable. Valronis also drink a cup of strongly brewed tea for breakfast with children drinking hot fresh soy milk to let their sweat out to cool down.
 * Lunch - Lunch in Valron isn't really a standard meal. This is because only richer people tend to eat lunches at home. Lunch in Valron is generally catered by their school or workplace. Workplaces tend to provide a bowl of rice, a tea egg, some fish or liver, some pickled vegetables and a cup of tea. Schools provide a bowl of rice, with vegetables, liver or fish, pickled vegetables, kelp soup and a cup of tea. Since 80% of Valronis are underweight many initiatives have been set up by the government to get them to have a healthy weight but failed as Valronis have high metabolisms.
 * Dinner - Dinner in Valron is usually with family or close friends. Since it is colder during the night, which is still quite warm. People generally eat more heavier meals, this generally consists of, a bowl of rice, some kelp soup or a meat soup, braised meat, pickled vegetables, noodles (if rice isn't eaten), a stir fry, liang chai (if stir fry or pickled vegetables or even both aren't eaten, sometiems all are eaten), rarely sandwiches (if it has to be quick) and herbal tea for the generally comfortable. Poorer families would eat, a bowl of rice, some kelp soup, braised meat, pickled vegetables and some herbal tea.
 * Sides - Sides eaten are generally in small bowls and are called "small meals", these include pickled, spiced or salted vegetables, which are either pickled radish (either salted radish/turnip or gardenia daikon), pickled mustard tuber, cabbage, melon rind, cucumbers or mustard greens are usually preferred this way. Tea eggs, which are boiled eggs impregnated in a tea brine, braised meat. Sometimes blood cake called Der hue png kuih and Der hue bhue kuih is popular, Der hue png kuih being made from steaming blood with sticky rice and seasonings, generally served with peanuts and coriander and Der hue bhue kuih is made by dry-steaming flour, blood, suet and seasonings and served. Pastes, sausages and preserved meats made from organs like brains, kidneys and livers are also popular, being popular on a steamed bun. Stuffed buns are also popular. Other things like stir fries, pickled fish, pickled meat, savoury pancakes, dried vegetables and other foods are popular as sides.
 * Desserts - Overly sweetened foods aren't really popular in Valron with most sweets relying on small amounts of sugar, generally palm sugar or natural sugars. Popular treats include, sticky rice cakes (filled with sesame paste, red bean or peanuts), puddings, dried fruit, dried fruit in syrup, egg tarts, custards and some popular pastries. Larger desserts like cakes and trifles are generally eaten on occasion. A popular dessert could include cream ices (way to say ice cream), water ices (flavoured water), fragrant water ice, sorbets, sharbats, ais kacangs, ice balls, bubur cha cha and other ice desserts are popular in Valron because of the weather.
 * Festivity, Occasional or Seasonal - Some foods are less common, and saved for holidays, festivals, and celebration. Usually these foods are made from less common or seasonal ingredients. As the lowlands is tropical it can't support the growth of some foods, so these foods have to be imported from highlands. Richer people tend to get a steady supply, while poorer people have to go to the highlands to buy it by the peck. This also applies to poorer people in highland towns, where rich people get steady supplies of tropical foods while poorer people have to travel to lowlands to buy it by the peck. Foods like sparrows, dormice and some game are generally eaten by the poorer peope during these times. Some fruits like plums are seasonal and lowland populace generally eat these in occasion. Celebrations like seasonal Harvest Festivals generally brings highland fruits and vegetables to the lowlands and vice versa where the poorer people can have these things. Though with the advent of the autowagen, it brings the prices of fruits from lower/higher grounds lower making the poorer person able to afford these things more.

Tea culture
Tea is a staple drink in Valron.

Artisanal Teapot making
Valroni artisans are extremely skilled at making teapots using a clay that contains a iron oxide, kaolin, quartz and mica. They are mixed to create small oxygen bubbles that intensify the flavour of the tea. The resulting clay is called Valroni teapot clay. When tea is poured out of the teapot it creates no splashes and goes out of the spout quick and straight. It also keeps the tea hot in the pot. The teapot also preserves the flavour of the tea, with the tea flavour more intensified. Tea cups called gaiwan are made of normal clay and glazed with a mix of glaze, kaolin, quartz and mica with some colourings and an extra layer of transparent quartz added to further preserve the tea flavour, the gaiwan is sometimes unglazed. Gaiwan is a small bell shaped cup with a saucer the same size as the gaiwan's base that has a small ring to help it stand under it, it has a small lid that helps strain the tea water from the tea leaves, it also fits perfectly on it and touches the side of the cup.

Artisanal Soy Sauce and Miso making
Soy sauce is made by mixing soy (yellow soy or black soy is ok) and wheat flour to ferment using qu, red yeast rice or koji. It then becomes moromi when a salt brine is added and left to ferment for months to years, it has to be mixed using a paddle for most of the time, to filter the sauce from the paste, artisans use cloths to extract the sauce weighed down using a stone and left to drip into a pitcher for a few days. What is left is aged moromi waste, which is used in Valroni cooking to make a savoury tasting flavour that is like a dry form of soy sauce but less salty. Double fermented soy sauce has soybeans and wheat readded and fermented for another few months to yeyars. Soy sauce made by artisans have a slightly sweet flavour from fermentation and can not be achieved using machinery.

Miso is made with the same components as soy sauce without the wheat and also fermented. Tamari, a salty liquid that is a product of double fermentation of soy sauce by adding more soy and flour; moromi, byproduct that is an umami solid made from extracting tamari, soy sauce or soy sauce that has been fermented mutiple times. Soy sauce is extracted out using a muslin cloth and put on the edge of a table with wood boards (about 2cm by 60 cm / an inch by two feet) on all sides, with the board on the edge with a small opening for the soy sauce to drip through into bucket made of pine, after two days, the cloth has to be pressed using a board, preferrably made using palm wood that is about (2 ft by 2ft / 60cm by 60cm) and pressed using a steam powered hydraulic press.

Painting
Painting is a small facet of Valroni art. Many painters create their own paints, which are sometimes natural, and sometimes artificial.

Paint-making
Paint-making is an artisan job that involves creating paints. Natural paints would include turmeric, annato and gac. Artificial chemicals used in Valroni painting would include copper sulfate, lead nitrate and copper carbonate. Most paints are either alcohol based or oil based. Artists would grind pigments and mix it with oils. This trade is complex as some pigments if milled too fine or course will make a different colour and mixing the oil, water, vinegar or other chemicals with the milled pigments and emulsifiers are also extremely hard. Artisan made paint is still popular as machinery couldn't mix the paint properly.

Pottery
Pottery in Valron is an important job as it is a complex trade. Clay has to be fine, but not too fine, and a litte course and clay usually contains compounds like iron oxide and others. Valroni potters would make heavily intricate patterns on their unglazed works and glaze heavily intricate patterns if glazed too. Unglazed earthenware has to smooth which is hard to achieve with a slightly course clay.

Earthenware
Earthenware jars and made of a Valroni clay that should be not to fine and a little course. It should be really big, and hold about 60 litres of liquid or 60kg of objects. They can vary in size, but the ones used for fermentation should hold 60 L, with some only holding 500mL, Earthenware can also create other things like pots and cups. This is used over glass as it is cheaper to heat clay.

Barrel-making
Barrel making is an integral craft for the soy sauce and drink industries. They are created with wood. Barrels are not usually made of metal as it doesn't contribute to flavours and aromas made during the fermentation and aging process.

Soy sauce barrels
Soy sauce barrels are usually made of pine or oak. They are put together by weaving strips of bamboo and wrap around the barrel. Bamboo is used as it doesn't corrode when it contacts with sodium or salt. A good barrel should be round and should not make any leaks and should not corrode

Alcohol barrels
Alcohol barrels can be made with a variety of woods and usually have copper wires and the base is made of copper as it gathers heat to boil the brew faster

Umbrella making
Umbrellas are a vital object for Valronis as it rains a lot in Valron. Umbrellas are made from wax paper and bamboo. The frame and handle is made of bamboo with a apparatus to open the umbrella made from bamboo that pushs the frame the wax paper rests on up. The apparatus has sticks of bamboo that hold the frame. The canopy is made of wax paper that is sometimes has something painted on it. It is very heavy, weighting around 2.5kg. The frame has hinges that open the umbrella with supports that are pushed up with the apparatus that hold the frame.

Entertainment
Though most people in Valron are serious workaholics, entertainment is popular during Sundays. This is because the Valron work day starts on 6 am in the morning and ends at 11 pm at night and it is from Monday to Saturday, usually with a 40 minute break in the middle for both adults and children. Valronis generally like theatre, music, board games and drawing. At home, families generally play boardgames like chess or weigoqi. Popular activities at home are sewing, knitting, scrimshaw, woodcarving, drawing, woodworking, needlework, embroidery, fishing, falconry, fabric work and playing music is also popular. Most Valroni children do not play sport outside of school as they are forced to do militaristic style sport. Some Valronis like to watch wayang opera perfomances.

Games
Valroni children play a variety of games in their free time like chapteh, which is kicking a ball of feathers as much times as possible without using hands; kaucheok, which involves nine small stones which the player needs to throw a stone up and pick up another stone and catch the stone and throw the two and pick the next and throw and you get the point; badminton is a popular sport in Valron with many kids playing it. Most Valroni students decide to partake in scouts, extracurricular activities or clubs. Games like hide and seek is generally discouraged because of the dangerous streets, with kidnappings and murders relatively common or children disappearing. Some Valroni children also like to gamble on cockfights, another game, hafuqiu, where the bundle is replaced by a ball made of stitched and quilted fabric, filled with scraps of fabric surrounding a bell and is used to play a sort of handball-like game. Some hafu balls are so elaborately decorated they cannot be used in game and are more of a display of sewing and embroidery skill.

Music
An integral part of Valroni music is strings.

Steam powered machines
Steam is the main source of power in Valroni machines. Most machines having turbines. These are mainly used to move things like a wheel or mix things like liquids and dough. These still can not be used in paint making as they are not good enough to mix paints as they are usually too fast or too slow and don't mix the paint properly.

Life
Valronis generally wake up at 5am in the morning and eat breakfast. They then clean themselves and dress up for school or work and usually walk or cycle there. Only 14% of Valronis own autowagens because of their exhorbitant price. They then attend classes or work and usually after about 6 hours and 40 minutes have a nutrient rich lunch. They work for another 6 hours and 40 minutes and walk back home, have dinner, do whatever homework or things they need to do and then sleep.

Media
Media in Valron is generally free, in form of newspaper, radio, filmreel or television. Though television is in it's early phase, with most people having a large white cloth and a projector for film reels. In Valron, films are generally called motion pictures, and some require a phonograph cylinders to play sound.

Subcultures

 * Tihami culture
 * Krigori culture
 * Kalai Balian Culture
 * AweBriissian culture
 * Chrimatsican culture