The New Order of Living Nobody could entirely answer why the long and cruel winter had come, apart from the chantry, they hadn't need even the question, they just had the response. They were declaring about God's punishment but before long people arranged the strike against them because they didn't want to feed people who did nothing. The set of the old holiday vanished and new ones arose. Two of the most important holidays become the New Year and 1 May, where people painted the town red, merely because they have a day off. The first years were the worst, people lived without vegetables and in shortage of everything, but eventually, it became possible to maintain the health standard of living. It was hard times, but everybody struggled to strive the better life and it united people.