"The parents worship the first day, and the second grandmother sets the bowl. The third and fourth days of the first year of the first year visited the uncle, and the fifth year of the first year rested at home for a day. In the blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival, and the Lantern is sweet and really relieving. Sixteen and seventeen 'travel hundreds of diseases', lanterns like stars descending on the earth. "Every Lantern Festival, I think of this folk song that I don't know how many generations have been circulating. When I was a child in winter, I liked to lie on the hot earth kang, while stroking the yellow cat lying next to me snoring like thunder, while listening to my grandmother tell the story of "swimming hundreds of diseases" in the past.
After nightfall, the villagers who had eaten early carried various lanterns: dragon lanterns, phoenix lanterns, gourd (Fluke) lamps, horse lanterns, tiger lanterns, yuanbao lanterns... First, they circled the village in groups, and then began to "circle the Yellow River". The "Around the Yellow River" lineup consists of 361 wooden stakes lit with lanterns on top, separated by connected ropes to form a curved passageway. From a distance, it looked as if someone had cut a starry universe and placed it on the wheat field of the village. Everyone carried homemade lanterns and walked around in them with laughter, just like the Nine-Curved Yellow River rushing thousands of miles, implying peace and health throughout the year.
When "traveling to a hundred diseases", everyone will bring a flower cake with a large red date in the middle and roast it on the mallet fire. Interestingly, the flower cake is not fixed on a mallet to bake, but to choose seven fire holes on each mallet to warm the flower cake, meaning "seven seven forty-nine, smart and healthy with longevity".
"Traveling to a hundred diseases" is actually a kind of mental health therapy for the ancestors. For example, women should go together to touch the mushroom nails on the temple gate, which means that people (nails) are prosperous. The children should hold the rhythm of festive gongs and drums, beat the washbasin to help cheer, implying that joy (washing) things are frequent. The lanterns made by the readers are more exquisite from the selection of materials to the style, and the riddles inscribed on the top are also texts such as "Tianzi Protégé", taking the titles of Yideng Dragon (lantern) and the first and gold lists. Unmarried boys and girls who usually stay in the boudoir can also use the "travel hundred diseases" to see or find a suitable partner to cure the disease of lovesickness.
Today, the folk activities of "Sixteen Seven Journeys and Hundred Diseases" are still carried out every year. However, modern lamps have gradually replaced the lanterns in the hands of their predecessors. But I still miss the scene of the lantern in the past, like carrying the moon in my hand, illuminating the night and illuminating every corner of the chest.
【Source: Southern Workers Daily】
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