Lu Jinxing, chief reporter of Peninsula All-Media
In the coastal fishing village of Jimo, the custom of making bean noodle lamps during the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month has been passed down for more than 300 years, and on February 14, Song Yufang of Nanlu Village was busy making bean noodle lamps at home. "Make a puppy in front of your home, put a pig in the yard, and put a goldfish in a water tank, this is a tradition that we have handed down for many years, and we have learned to do it with the elderly at home since childhood," Song Yufang said while busy.
Lit bean noodle lamp.
Song Yufang's wife laid the groundwork for her.
Song Yufang makes bean noodle lamps.
Nanlu Village has a long history and culture, and the village also maintains a family temple that was built more than 500 years ago, which was rebuilt in The Eighth Year of Xianfeng and has been repaired many times in recent years. Outside the gate, there is an "eight-character" shaped wall extending outwards, according to the feudal etiquette system, which represents the people who have made meritorious names in the clan, and the bean noodle lamps made by each family will be enshrined here. For the origin of the bean noodle lamp, 68-year-old Song Yufang can not say, the tradition left from childhood will be passed down from generation to generation, a few days ago when her daughter was not yet at work, the two women sat on the kangtou and began to make lamps. Today's bean noodle lamp has added new elements, crabs, prawns, eight belts, pipe fish, scallops and other seaside features are reflected in the works, this year is the Year of the Tiger, tiger elements are more essential. Part of the good bean noodle lamp is taken to the family temple, part is placed at home, lit on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the small bean noodle lamp carries people's hope for a prosperous life, and contains the family's yearning for a better life.
"In the past, almost every household in our village made bean noodle lamps before the Lantern Festival, and now there are a lot less, but many young people in their thirties have also begun to be interested in these old traditions, so inheritance is not a problem" Nanlu Village Yu secretary introduced, bean noodle lamp raw materials are simple, the production process is not complicated, mixed with cooking oil and soybean noodles kneaded into a glutended dough, and then formed, colored, in the lamp inserted a straw pole wrapped in a cotton wool made of wick, poured into the soybean oil, you can light the prayer on the night of the Lantern Festival.
Elements such as pigs, birds, and goldfish can all be made into bean noodle lamps.
knead.
Song Yufang used scissors to make lace on the lamp.
Song Yufang colored the bean-faced tiger.
Pig element bean noodle lamp is ready and put in the yard to light up.
Near the Lantern Festival, Song Yufang was busy on the kang.
The Year of the Tiger Tiger is mighty.
Some of Song Yufang's works.
Pomegranate, gourd and other auspicious elements made of bean noodles.
The villagers took the prepared bean noodle lamps to the family temple.
Two tigers made of bean noodles.
This year' Year of the Tiger, the elements of the tiger are also reflected in the bean noodle lamp.
The family temple in Nanlu Village has a long history, and the bean noodle lamps are enshrined here.