N Haidu reporter Chen Jiangyan Ma Junjie Wen/Photo
Year after year, there will be a lantern again. With the approaching of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Fuzhou Lantern Shop is full of red fire, and all kinds of lanterns make people dazzled, attracting many citizens to stop and buy.
This weekend, Haidu reporters visited and saw that many sales of festive supplies stores, merchants began to be busy after the Spring Festival, the dazzling Lantern Lanterns were placed in the most conspicuous position of the store. "Lotus Lamp", "Little Red Lantern", "Sheep Lamp", "Sending Son Guanyin Lamp"... Among them, there are both simple and exquisite traditional lanterns, as well as cute and playful cartoon lanterns, which are priced at more than ten yuan to tens of yuan.
"Sheep Lamp"
"Sending Son Kannon Lamp"
"Airplane Lights"
The variety of flower lanterns is dazzling
"The Lantern Festival is coming soon, and flower lanterns are our traditional customs in Fuzhou. This year, I bought a lotus lamp for my 3-year-old granddaughter and hoped that she would be healthy, happy to grow up, and quick to understand adults in the new year. Citizen Grandma Yu said.
According to folklore experts, the Lantern Festival is one of the important traditional festivals in the mainland. For the people of Fuzhou, the lantern purchase and flower viewing lantern at the Lantern Festival is a very important event, pinning their beautiful expectations for the reunion of relatives and family harmony. There are many kinds of lanterns in Fuzhou, and in the old days, Fuzhou people would start to prepare for the Lantern Lanterns from the seventh day of the first month of the first month, carefully purchasing and arranging the lanterns.
In addition to appreciating the lanterns, the Fuzhou Lantern Festival also has an important folk activity - sending lanterns. In the Fuzhou dialect, "lamp" is harmonized with "Ding", so "sending lamp" also means "Tim Ding". For a woman who has been married and has not yet had a child, the mother's family should send Guanyin to send child lamps, etc., to wish the birth of children and the prosperity of the people. Therefore, there is also a custom of "sending lamps from relatives and uncles".