Lantern Festival lantern viewing is a traditional folk culture activity with a long history. As early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the lantern festival was recorded in the written records. Later, it developed into an annual event that people pinned on ideals and prayed for a good year.
Known as the "world's first lamp" reputation of the lamp city Of Yandu, as early as the Tang and Song dynasties, there was a custom of viewing lanterns in the New Year, and the Ming and Qing dynasties further developed into various festivals. Today, it is more famous overseas and famous all over the world because of the lantern festival.
Lantern viewing is also one of the most lively activities in the Spring Festival in Yandu. Watching the colorful lights light up the night sky is definitely the strongest moment of the New Year's ceremony, and it also means that there will be good times in the coming year.
And my horror story happened in the year when the Yandu Lantern Festival was re-held twenty years after it was suspended for various reasons.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, thousands of people filled the alley, and the citizens all gathered at the entrance of the Lantern Park, releasing their passion that had been suppressed for twenty years.
My girlfriend Lin Ling and I got up early, and one of them pulled a child who was less than two years old and squeezed towards the mouth of the crowded Lantern Park. Before I got closer, I already felt the huge wave of people.
It is a square shaped like a pocket, and at the end of the pocket is the entrance to the lantern club.
The park opened at 7:00, and now at 6:30, the square has more than 10,000 people waiting here. Looking at this situation, the probability of a stampede accident is too great, and we are each holding a small sacred beast that is still walking and waddling.
Helplessly, we could only go into a few shops on the side of the square, planning to enter the park at the wrong peak.
We were attracted by the colourful national costume shops, the variety of handbag shops and an old shop specializing in pearls. In the pearl shop, several girls are discussing the authenticity of pearls. I was half an expert and commented on the beauty of the Akoya pearls in the store. Everyone gathered in a circle to listen to my nonsense, and even the lady boss came over and listened to a technical term. After half a day of tongue-in-cheek, we also picked a pair of pearl earrings that suited each other.
Stepping out of the store, I put my hand to the side of an artemisia, broken, without that fleshy little hand.
Before I could exit my exclamation, Lin Ling next to me was already screaming, child, what about the two children?!
We suddenly realized that it had been the two of us walking around, where had the child gone?
At that moment, in the middle of winter, my cold sweat also came out in an instant. The cold wind blew and trembled.
Two children under the age of two, missing at the entrance of the lantern club where tens of thousands of people gathered, what was the result? This blind walk, it must be half an hour, is it still useful to call the police? In an instant, the vicious cases of child abduction and trafficking poured into the mind one after another, blowing up consciousness into flowers.
One person is paralyzed, but two people are sloppy to this point, do we still deserve the word mother?!
At that moment, we couldn't even make eye contact, and there was no time to cry hysterically. Can't remember who shouted, I went to the park, well! You go to the station, good!
I rushed to the ticket gate of the lantern club in a hurry, and in the face of the crowd in front of me, I wiped away tears and cried, please let me, the child is lost. Xu is everyone heard this, the crowd is very conscious to give me a gap, I rushed to the ticket gate.
I heard that I was looking for a child, and the personnel at the ticket gate immediately opened a green channel to let me in. As I ran, I shouted the names of my two children, and shuttled through the crowd over and over again. Countless figures interspersed with me, like montages, flashed far or near, but there was no child of mine. The emotion of collapse intensifies as time passes by minute by minute.
I was greeted by more than eighty steps, and I rubbed it to the top. As far as the eye can see, the crowds of people roaming the mountains sway in the brilliant lights. I kept running aimlessly, my tearful eyes blurred, and my throat was so dry that I was about to smoke. My whole body was shaking and I wanted to cry and faint. I am not reconciled, because I still believe in the goodness of the human heart. I didn't dare to despair, I was afraid that despair would make me fall into a world of eternal doom.
I grabbed the phone hopelessly and called Lin Ling, and the sobbing sound coming from the other end of the phone shattered my hope of a little green bean. I covered my mouth to stop desperate whimpers from piercing my throat, ignoring the amazed gaze that looked at me as I slumped to the ground.
"Uh-huh... Uh huh... Can you hear it? ”
The phone I had just thrown on the floor was pressed to the speakerphone, the speaker turned on, and the voice of Lin Lin on the other end of the phone came, "Uh-huh.... The child has found it, come to the security room in the park..."
She was so out of breath that she didn't scare me half a life. I can't remember what was said later, but I just felt that at that moment all the cells came alive, with the kind of skill described in the martial arts novel, running and jumping down the more than eighty steps.
Kafka once said that the heart is a house with two bedrooms, one inhabited by pain and the other inhabited by joy. One must not laugh too loudly so as not to disturb the pain of the next room. At the moment when I wrapped my arms around my son, I tried my best to control my laughter, just wanting to squeeze out all the laughter in my life and dedicate it to this beautiful world.
Needless to say, we took the kids to watch the Lantern Festival. The "dragon" made of porcelain tableware has the posture of stepping on the waves; the peacock bundled with penicillin medicine bottles the size of the thumb shines; there are tie-dye lamps that show the characteristics of the local tie-dyeing process, and the silk lamps made of silk... But seeing the romance of the cosmic mountains and rivers, the fire trees and honeysuckles, the glittering lights, is better than all the spring flowers and autumn moons I have seen.
