"In the first month, every household hangs a red light." Lanterns, as a typical element of mainland traditional culture, symbolize happiness and auspiciousness, and it is precisely this beautiful meaning that makes China have the traditional custom of hanging lanterns on the Lantern Festival.
Recently, the reporter visited the home of Yang Shengke, a villager who made paper lanterns in Yingjian Village, and in his guest room, hundreds of paper lanterns that had been made were stacked. These lanterns, without exception, are handmade by Yang Shengke's family. Yang Shengke told reporters that since he can remember, his fathers have made paper lanterns every year, and their family has been making paper lanterns for 70 to 80 years. On the one hand, insisting on this matter is to please the head, and the traditional folklore says that when the lanterns are ready, there will be more wheat in the coming year, and more grain harvest will be achieved. On the other hand, selling handmade paper lanterns in the early years could increase income and subsidize some households. Now continue to make paper lanterns, more is the nostalgia and love of traditional culture, I hope to let more people know about traditional handmade paper lanterns.
A small lantern, condensed with the painstaking efforts of twenty craftsmen, cutting paper, dyeing, drying, neat, wet, folding, tying, then wet, rolling, and then drying, pushing, adhesion, circle into a pigeon shape, circle, and then dry. Although the process of repeated wetness and drying is cumbersome, Yang Shengke's family has done a tasteful job, from supporting the family when they were young to now can't help but like it. Every year, the family sits around making lanterns and talking about homely routines, which has become the most beautiful memory of home and the taste of the New Year in each of them.
"Although the paper lantern is not as delicate as the electronic lantern, it has a strong Chinese taste, and the round red lantern symbolizes family reunion and happiness." After the new year, the family sat around the stove with a sticky paper lantern that talked and laughed, and passed on the joy and good wishes of the Lantern Festival to everyone. Yang Shengke's words revealed his love for handmade lanterns.
A good lantern, lighting a candle, warm light takes us to find the beauty of childhood, but also the continuation of the love of generations.