[News Page-Taiwan Straits Network]
On the 14th, in a shop on the street side of Guxi Road in Fuzhou, customers were shopping for flower lanterns. Southeast Network reporter Lin Xianchang photographed
According to the southeast network report on February 15, the fifteenth yen festival of the first month, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, whenever this time, Fuzhou folk lantern making, buying lamps, viewing lamps, sending lights and so on are particularly active.
On February 14, the reporter visited a number of flower lantern markets on the street side of Guxi Road in Fuzhou, and the citizens who came to buy were endless. In a shop, the clerk told reporters that there are handmade lotus lamps, palace lamps, traditional flower lamps, electronic flower lights, etc., which are very popular, and some of the shapes also cater to the current popular elements. The price of a flower lamp ranges from 20 yuan to 35 yuan, and the electronic flower lamp can not only sing children's songs, but also turn the lamp, which is welcomed by parents and children. The clerk said that every time around the fifteenth day of the first month, the elders in Fuzhou will buy flower lanterns to send children, which means peace and auspiciousness.
In the store, Zheng Laobo carefully selected a uniquely shaped flower lamp, held it in his hand and carefully examined it for a little while, his grandson was 10 years old, "bought for children, every year will buy." He said.
The reporter noted that in a flower lantern shop, in just 10 minutes, more than 20 customers entered the store to buy flower lanterns. And on Guxi Road, a stationery store also hung a lot of different shapes of the lanterns, the clerk said that these lanterns are just a few days ago into the goods, these two days to buy lanterns customers are quite a lot, the business is not bad, should be able to sell.
Many merchants also said that the Lantern Lantern has entered the peak sales period these days, and can sell at least dozens of them a day, and even hundreds of them can be sold when they are more.
An old man chose a satisfactory lantern to give to his grandson. Southeast Network reporter Lin Xianchang photographed
Fuzhou Lantern Lantern has been famous since ancient times, and the Ming Dynasty poet Xie Zhaochun said: "The grandeur of the Lantern Candle in the world is beyond the Middle of Fujian." "Lamp, Fuzhou dialect homophonous with Ding. Ding, ancient is the population. Therefore, the lamp symbolizes the prosperity of the people and the full hall of children and grandchildren. Ming Wang Yingshan's "Records of Minda" says: Fuzhou "hangs lights along the door, and travels all night to enjoy, which is called the lamp city".
Zheng Ziduan, an expert in folklore research in Fuzhou, said in a previous interview with reporters that Fuzhou has the custom of sending lanterns to Tianding in the first month of the lantern. For the daughter who is married, the mother's family will send a lamp, and the "lamp" and "Ding" are harmonized, taking the meaning of Ding. In the first year, if there is no childbirth, the "Heavenly Gift" lamp and the "child sitting basin" lamp are sent, and in the third and fourth years, if there is no childbirth, the "orange" lamp is sent, which means "anxiety". After childbirth, you can send "Yuanyuan Riding Horse" lamp, "Heavenly Qilin" lamp, etc., until the nephew is 16 years old. There is a nursery rhyme in the folk: the Lantern Lantern of the First Moon, the grandmother loves the nephew (grandson), sends the red orange lamp, and the auspicious is added to the Ding.
In recent years, traditional paper flower lanterns have also been favored by many customers. Southeast Network reporter Lin Xianchang photographed