Lantern Festival night
The Lantern Festival is coming. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the moon and the starry sky, the cool breeze, the stars blink mischievous eyes, volleying and giggling, overlooking the earth, it seems that on this Lantern Night, I am attracted by the beauty of the world.
Looking up at the night sky, the ever-changing fireworks unfold gracefully, forming colorful flowers that fill the sky, setting off the sky with brilliant and colorful, beautiful and spectacular. The deafening sound of firecrackers rose and fell, swaying in the air. This scene, suddenly a strong sense of homesickness surged into my heart, if I am in my hometown at this moment, I think I will definitely enjoy the beautiful and spectacular traditional culture and art in front of the lamp shed.
My hometown is an ancient town, surrounded by water, convenient transportation, with hundreds of years of traditional cultural history of the town, the lamp shed has been included in the intangible cultural heritage, after three generations (Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, contemporary), with three hundred years of history, every year in the Wax Moon, those old artists began to prepare, design, painting, handicraft, after many days of hard work and efforts, the thirteenth day of the first month, the front three floors, beautiful and spectacular lamp shed, located in front of the town government in front of the crossroads.
The bottom surface of the lamp shed is more than 2 meters above the ground for tourists to pass through; the second floor is equipped with a cloth banner, facing four panlong lampposts, which are spaced on 12 threshold lamps, and the pillar lamps are connected to the lamp room bucket arch cornices, separated from the left and right three spaces, hanging 24 pieces of face lamps, hanging glass palace lamps and Linglong bead lamps under the face lamps, and the middle depth is furnished with exotic flowers and grasses, rare birds and animals, all kinds of antiques, and celebrity calligraphy paintings are hung in the back wall hall, and the left, middle and upper cover covers the canopy. Above three floors with a hippocampal beast ridge, 24 face lamps under the cornice arch, four groups of colored lamps hanging on the corners of the cornice, each group of 9 lights, called nine lotus lamps.
Its lamps, paintings, and settings reflect the colors of the times with the progress of the times, the threshold lamp draws more than 12 zodiac signs, and the three-layer frontal lamp often draws 24 filial piety diagrams, opera story pictures, there are Water Margin, Journey to the West story pictures. Chang'e running to the moon, Nezha noisy sea, miniature motor production train through the cave, with the change of the times, to adapt to the current situation and create face lamps. The lantern shed is renovated every year, competing for beauty, famous far and near, the festival is decorated with colorful and gorgeous, more festive, the night of the Lantern Festival, the people near the left, with their families, with stools, carrying children, with rack cars to pull the elderly, one after another, the lights are full of color, the various characters and animals on the face lamps are vivid, the horns are played with cheerful music, and the people around the lanterns are crowded.
Around eight o'clock cloud lanterns began to perform, cloud lanterns are provincial intangible cultural heritage, is a popular folk dance, its performance form is eight people, four men and four women, each holding two lamps, the first stage with a small horizontal step to the front of the stage, successively as a smooth lamp (circle), peeling the ground, single fold, double fold, single fold belt, double fold belt, full fold, panlong (zhenglong, inverted dragon) to the lotus, five flowers, outer five flowers and other formation pictures, to describe the turbulence of the clouds, from gentle fluttering to fierce flight.
The cloud lantern has been passed down from Qianling for fifteen years to the present, and it has been performed in Beijing in the 1970s, and has been warmly praised and inscribed by Premier Zhou.
Listening to the light and joyful music, watching the light and graceful dance, with the laughter and warm applause of the audience, the sound of firecrackers outside the venue, as well as the brilliant fireworks blooming in the air, the strong festive atmosphere, let everyone have a joyful expression on their faces, immersed in the festive atmosphere.
On the sixteenth day of the first month, people have eaten breakfast early and come to both sides of the road to wait for the arrival of the literary and artistic army, and all the group units in the town's villages, schools, factories, etc., will present wonderful programs.
There is a big temple in our town, every year at this time, the literary and artistic army must first go to worship the gods, pray for peace, at nine o'clock, the literary and artistic army that has worshiped the gods has come in a mighty way, the firecrackers in front of the road, the banners of two people are written on it, "Happy Lantern Festival", behind them are two tractors pulling big drums and big brakes, several handsome young men, wearing big red, waist ribbons, snow-white towels tied to the top of the head, gongs and drums with plates and eyes, deafening. Immediately after the lion dance team, in people's impression, the lion is the auspicious supreme of the hundred beasts, the image is majestic and handsome, giving people a sense of majesty and bravery, the ancients regarded it as a symbol of bravery and strength, believing that it can drive away evil demons and bless peace, especially in important festivals, lion dance performances, indicating people's desire for auspiciousness, peace and happiness. The lion dancer wears a big-headed Buddha mask, under which he wears lantern pants, and is draped in a colorful lion quilt, and the dance posture is brave and majestic, and the spirit is extraordinary.
Behind him came a man dressed in a robe, wearing a ribbon around his waist, holding a big red hydrangea ball high in his hand, and following the hydrangea ball was a long dragon with a big mouth and danced up and down by more than a dozen people wearing colored clothes and white towels on their heads, which represented the spirit of the Chinese nation, it was a strange animal in Chinese mythology, it was good at change, it could turn clouds and rain, swallow clouds and spit fog, and dance the dragon at the Lantern Festival to show people's good wishes for a smooth wind and rain this year and a good harvest.
In the back are the stilt team, the waist drum team, the big rice song, the flower car, the dry boat team, and so on, and so on, each team will play next to the lamp shed for a while, also called the lantern shed, those men who wear ugly big sisters, from time to time to the surrounding audience to flutter their eyes, play a grimace, make people laugh.
At the end of the program, it was more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and in this festive festival, in the atmosphere of entertainment, people forgot hunger and exhaustion.
One point number Qingwei Heze creative base