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Lantern Festival reminiscence lights
□ Liu Ning/Wen
The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival that our people have always attached great importance to, in addition to eating the Lantern Festival, the focus of the festival is mainly on the viewing of lanterns.
When the ancients described the Lantern Festival, there was not only the prosperity and bustle of "the Lantern Festival to see the lotus boat, the BMW fragrant car to pick up the falling tungsten", the light and strange land of "the color is far away, the light is far away from the sky", there is also the beautiful tranquility of "the willow on the moon, the person is about after dusk", and there is also the small joy of "the crowd looks for him for thousands of degrees, but the man is in the light of the lights". Judging from these verses, the Lantern Festival seems to be more of a carnival festival, a festival of release, and a "Valentine's Day".
As modern people, although we cannot immerse ourselves in the lively atmosphere of the ancient festival, we are bathed in the blessings of the festival under the influence of traditional culture. Even in the early 1980s, when conditions were more difficult, the people of Anyang, located in the northern Henan Plain, did not pull down this important festival at all. At that time, the country's economic foundation was still relatively weak, and there were grain stamps to buy grain, meat tickets to buy meat, cloth tickets to buy cloth, and coal tickets to buy coal. Children usually can't eat delicious food, and naturally look forward to the New Year, so they can eat sugar, eat meat, and wear new clothes and shoes. My family is in a remote rural area, and the conditions are not good. New clothes and shoes could not afford to buy, my mother bought cloth for us to make; and then cut two pounds of meat, fat meat for frying oil, lean meat for dumplings, for my family is already a good life.
On the night of the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, it was the time when the sunset rested and fell asleep, but at the time of the Lantern Festival, people had a sleepless interest. It was just dark, and the front street backyard was filled with the laughter of children playing "lantern clubs". Confined to the poverty of the family, my mother also bought a very cheap paper lantern twice, and when our sisters grew up a little, the lantern was not related to us. At that time, I was probably in the second grade of elementary school, and I was particularly envious of the beautiful colorful lanterns owned by the little sisters in the neighborhood. But the poor family has no money to buy, what to do? I had to pick the largest cabbage root from a pile of cabbage, cut it and hollow out the middle part of the root. First, you have to find a thick cotton thread to put it in the middle of the wax oil as the wick, and then slowly drip eight full candle oil. Subsequently, he found a thick iron wire from the corner of the horn, hung it on both sides of the cabbage root, and selected a half-meter-long small wooden stick, which could be tied with a thin wire to light a cotton wick as a lantern. On the main street of the village, I picked up my own DIY works, and ran behind the colorful lanterns of my friends, although it was not the best looking, but the joy was the same. Small partners also have a heart of comparison, whose lantern is beautiful, will also envy half a day. Some naughty children even deliberately used their own lanterns and other children's lanterns to "single out" and "coax" a sound, and the two lanterns were ignited, leaving a group of children laughing in the night ocean. "Lanterns will lanterns will be lanterns, lanterns will go out and go home to sleep." Until the oil ran out, the friends reluctantly went home.
A little bigger, many factories were built in the city. There are paper mills, flashlight factories, yarn mills, weaving and dyeing factories, breweries, match factories, tobacco factories, carpet factories and so on. The days are better, and the lantern festival of the common people is more than just playing with children's "lantern party". In my impression, I also deliberately ran to the road of Nanguan Sports Factory with my mother to see the "lantern exhibition" carefully prepared by various enterprises and units in the city: there were those who ran dry boats, some played the rural old men and women's anti-string programs, some played the Eight Precepts of pigs, some carried flower palanquins, some lifted pavilions, and some back pavilions. The most eye-catching thing is the large lanterns of different shapes made by each factory. Lanterns are installed on wooden cars, which are covered with red, red, green and green silk, and the lanterns are full of styles that are refreshing. Many years have passed, and I have passed forty years, and when I think of the unprecedented scene at that time, my heart is surging with excitement, and the lights will be like yesterday. Almost all the people of the city went out of their way to see the lanterns, and it was not an exaggeration to use the metaphor of rubbing shoulders and leaking water.
Many years later, under the wave of market economy, many factories have closed down. Instead, there is the rapid rise of e-commerce and micro-business. A few years ago, during the Lantern Festival, I bought a variety of lanterns for my niece, in addition to the traditional square lanterns and round lanterns, I also added Barbie lanterns, electronic music lanterns and so on. As living conditions improve, the lanterns are dazzling. What kind of lanterns you want to buy, you can order them online if you can't buy them in the downtown area. There are more and more lantern styles, but the "lantern club" in life is missing. Today's children are more likely to experience the fun of the Lantern Festival "Lantern Festival" after turning off the lights at home. It is gratifying that the trees on the main roads of the city and the net red streets will always hang a lot of quaint and elegant big red lanterns, which are always so sultry in the cold and silent winter night. Because of these heart-shaped and circular lanterns that "do not forget the original heart" and "Chinese dream", the practitioners feel warm and feel the strong New Year flavor of the Lantern Festival.
The changes in lanterns at the Lantern Festival are a microcosm of the development of the times, reflecting the pace and context of economic development and changes in people's lives. Although the taste of the year has faded, the living conditions have really improved. Previously, the desired items, as small as a paper lantern, could only be fulfilled until the New Year, but with the rapid development of the Internet and the express delivery industry, the dream became within reach.
I remember that Chen Zhifan said in "Cambridge Reflection": "Only by cultivating a little tradition can a little tradition be cultivated, and only by many traditions can we cultivate a little culture." "I really want to thank the traditional culture, so that the warmth of the world that we miss can not only be appreciated in ancient poetry, but also realized in the world of fireworks." I also have to thank the lanterns and lantern exhibitions, which make the dark night have light and hope, make the traditional festivals more colorful, make life more vivid, and also let our memories and love have sustenance.
At this moment, the steaming Lantern is boiling in the pot, the sound of the Lantern Festival on radio and television is constantly coming, I am infected by the festive atmosphere, by the speed at which people can resume work and production after the epidemic dissipated, and rejoice at the changes of the lantern meeting. I am fortunate to be born in the era of peace and prosperity, to experience this hard-won happiness, although the taste of the year is light, but it is warm in the heart...