Editor: Wang Wenbin qq8 1704420
Maybe I have been away from home for too long. I have seen many bright lights in the city and many neon flashes. Let me feel the moonlight at home with how bright! Water is the hometown of green.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is in two days. Standing on the balcony of the dormitory and looking up at the horizon, the bright moon is very special. Different from the past, today's moon is particularly round, so white and obvious against the dark night, which reminds me of the Mid-Autumn Festival when I was a child.
In the darkness, several figures are flashing, some like crawling, some like beating, which is exactly the picture of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers.
Here's one, and there's another. A few shadows ran away with the corner where the sound was made. Where can you feel fear? The withered vine field has been driven home by others a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because everyone knows that there is a custom of stealing melons and smashing doors on August 15, children will not be scolded by adults for stealing melons from other people's homes. This is also a custom handed down by adults, symbolizing the meaning of autumn harvest. Anyway, it's autumn, and your family can't collect it. Let's help collect it together! As for who will receive the pumpkin? That depends on which door we break. So when we heard the news of finding the pumpkin, everyone seemed a little excited, and seemed to forget that we came to steal the melon, not to rob it.
Although most people have taken all the melons home, there will always be some fish that slip through the net. If we can't find a few pumpkins, will we still celebrate this Mid-Autumn Festival? So we carried forward the spirit of digging three feet and not letting go of one, and finally found some pumpkins.
When the lights in the stockade go out, we should go home. As it was getting late, the adults all rested. But we still stole too few melons, not enough for one person. So we made a bold decision and stole some from Baba's melon shed. Because of his vast land, there are the most melons belonging to his family in Zhaili every year.
There is a clearing in front of his house to cultivate seedlings. Because it was not yet in season, his family set up a melon shed to grow pumpkins. Every year after the Mid-Autumn Festival, his family never picked it, as if it were kept as a seed until the pumpkin was bigger, and no one stole it at the door anyway.
August is a busy farming season. There are double harvests in the fields, and there are corn and rice in the fields. So people went to bed early, and it happened that his family didn't have a dog, so several friends went hand in hand and crept to his melon shed. In the dark, you can still see the big and ripe golden pumpkin by the bright moonlight. The next step is to follow the leader without hesitation. After some sweeping, we managed to steal some pumpkins, and everyone was delighted.
The field where rice is harvested is the best place to hide melons. Hide the melon in the straw pile, no one can take it away.
The next day, we finally looked forward to the long-awaited Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15. After dinner, everyone came to the stockade basketball court, and we discussed whose door to smash today. Maybe it's because of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival! It was not dark after dinner, because it was still early, so we didn't start smashing the gate at once. On the contrary, we are playing the game of the eagle catching the chicken. After playing for a while, everyone was tired. I don't know who proposed to steal oranges, but which one? After everyone finally decided to steal from my uncle's house. Because his orange field is on the roadside, if it is found, it is easy to escape. If it is found, we can pretend to pass by. In fact, the ultimate reason is that we all know that his family has a good temper, at least he won't scold us if he is found out. With the experience of stealing melons, stealing oranges is much bolder. Anyway, it doesn't matter that so many of us are found.
My uncle's orange field is at the door, so it's better to start near the road, because citrus reticulata is dense, so you can start with confidence. The orange fields are all surrounded by bamboo and thorns to prevent others from picking oranges casually. No, although the orange field was surrounded, it was not easy to start work, but it took us a short time to find a hole in the enclosed area, just enough for one person to go in. Because I was afraid that too many people would go in and the target would be too obvious to be found, I finally decided to let some older people in and we would meet them outside.
Climb the orange tree, whether yellow or green, mature or immature, pick the oranges when you catch them and throw them outside. Those who pick oranges outside put them into their pockets without looking. Because oranges are all late-ripening, and most of them are picked from his home, most of them can't be eaten. Because it was dark again, most of the oranges we stole were not ripe and were thrown into the ditch. There are only a few oranges that look big and yellow. After we peeled it off, everyone divided it into several petals. I was very excited to see our hard-won trophy, but after eating oranges, everyone's eyes narrowed into a black line. Even more exaggerated, I threw up there.
Around ten o'clock, it is estimated that many people should have finished their meals. Now it's time for everyone to get together and eat moon cakes. Next, it's time for us to stage a good show on August 15.
We can't wait to hide the haystack of pumpkins. We smashed several big pumpkins into pumpkin slices, so that more people could be assigned to the pumpkins and more doors could be smashed. After you gave me the stolen pumpkins one by one, everyone was discussing which one to smash first. Finally, Wang Xiaoer suggested going to my house first, but of course, my sister and I didn't raise any objections. Because today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is also a habit at home that the door is not locked and there is no bolt. Several people together, the door opened and many people smashed all the melons in their hands. Of course, I didn't throw away the pumpkins in my hand, because I wanted to leave more pumpkins in my hand and hit others' homes, which was more meaningful. Soon pumpkins were scattered all over the floor and my grandmother came out of the room. We shared some moon cakes. Because there were so many of us at that time, no one handed out moon cakes, so we had to dress up as two pieces and send them to one of us. Then everyone shared a few pieces of sugar, and my mother also shared some sunflower seeds, fried pumpkin seeds and some biscuits for everyone. The first scene of the opening ceremony was quite successful and we were all full of joy.
Next, we went directly to Wang Huan's home, because his house is closer to mine. There was another burst of cheers and shouts, and the pumpkin ran into the upper door like crazy. I don't know if Qin and Weichi Gong, the gatekeepers at the gate, will be angry, but none of us will pay attention to him as two heroes of the Tang Dynasty. His dog heard the door banging and barked around the house. His grandfather knew that we were coming to smash the gate and stopped rhubarb dog who was screaming. Then he called us all in and brought us moon cakes and candy provided on the big table in the center of the room. His grandfather also asked us to come again next year, and then wait until next year to earn more money and buy us more moon cakes. After thanking his family for the food, we went back to the hiding place of pumpkin and continued our activities with pumpkin.
This time, we chose to smash my uncle's door. When we got to his door, there was another pumpkin fight. At that time, I was still holding a big pumpkin that was not smashed. I went straight to the door and threw the pumpkin out with great strength. I just broke the door open a little, and my friends made up some pumpkins to break the door open. Of course, there are also technical problems that are not aimed at and directly hit the wall. Some pumpkins that hit the door bounced too much. Seeing that there were not many melons in my hand, I had to pick them up and smash them. My aunt and my fifth grandmother came out from the left wing, and the other came out from the right wing to pick up pumpkins. Later we learned that he seemed to block the door with something, and we finally got up. In fact, the main thing is to let us smash more pumpkins in the past, and we will not attack if we understand it. It is estimated that his family got the most from throwing melons, and this time we greatly weakened it. His family today because our activities are very lively, the host family naturally sent us a lot of things when they were happy. Because chestnuts are planted in front of and behind his house, not only moon cakes and melon seeds were given to us this time, but also a handful of chestnuts were given to everyone, which made us very happy.
After this time, there are not many pumpkins left. We will definitely smash the door of Master Luo's house with the last pumpkin. If the last activity was called fun, the next activity should be called excitement! After we took out the rest of the melons, Brother Fei had a whim and said, Let's have a more exciting time this time! Then let's pick up the stones, then dig a hole in the pumpkin with a knife, take out some pulp and stuff the stones we picked up. We understood his meaning at once. The purpose of this method is to increase the strength of the pumpkin itself, so as to ensure that the effect of a pumpkin is to open itself. Oh, I have to say that this idea is a wonderful move! At this time, Wang put forward a more creative idea, that is, playing pranks at home, and I still admire it secretly until now! He said, "What do you think will happen if we put cow dung and stones together?" As soon as the idea came out, everyone laughed and burst into tears. Maybe it's youth and ignorance! At that time, no one opposed such a cruel prank, so everyone found tiles, shoveled cow dung from the roadside into the hollowed-out pumpkin, and filled in some melon pulp and stones. In a short time, many of us processed a lot of pumpkins, because pumpkin processing is relatively heavy. This time, several big shots came to smash it, and Brother Fei began to open the first pumpkin. I don't know if his brain is short-circuited or just a prank. This time, instead of smashing master Luo's door, they threw the evil pumpkin at his door, which was quite accurate! The pumpkin weighing a few pounds ten meters away flew out of his hand very accurately and hit the middle of the door impartially. There was a bang when the door opened before the second melon came. Maybe the door was not only opened, but also broken because of excessive force and fire. He also smashed his tauren lock. At that time, many people in rural areas only used padlocks, and a cow head lock was not cheap. Next, obviously, the host family didn't send us moon cakes, but directly escalated into madness. Seeing stones and cow dung all over the ground, I began to curse. Shit! ! ! When I turned around and everyone ran a few meters away, I had to say that these people were really witty and flexible. At that time, I could tolerate that my first reaction was to run with them.
Fourth Master Luo saw that we not only refused to admit our mistakes and apologize, but also ran faster than rabbits. He chased us and scolded us as he ran. Because I ran behind, I didn't forget to turn my head to see if the people behind me had caught up, but I didn't dare to stop.
Because it is easy to catch up with the road, so we choose to run to the ridge, so we can hide in the ridge ditch. At that time, when I was running behind, I didn't care about the road. The stalks were narrow and I accidentally plunged into the ground. Fortunately, the soil in the field is not very hard, and I am not injured, but it is depressing that there is water in the field. The next consequence is that I not only got wet shoes, but also got wet.
At that time, Master Luo chased us because he was angry and wanted to get rid of the Japanese. Because he knew that we were all children and had a big holiday, he didn't want to catch up with us, so he didn't try his best to catch up with us, otherwise he would have caught up with us at the speed of our children. He was funny and angry when he mentioned the matter of smashing the door again. In the end, he didn't ask our parents to blame us. He is a carpenter himself, so when he breaks the door, he repairs it himself.
Although we made a big mistake in the Mid-Autumn Festival, our childhood still left a deep impression, because at that time, we were honest teenagers. Who had an innocent and naughty childhood?
I still remember spending the Mid-Autumn Festival with my cousin's family one year. Unlike us, we don't steal melons and smash doors, but put pumpkin lanterns by the river. A few of our friends went to the river with pumpkins. We dig a round cover on the pumpkin with a knife, then hollow out the pulp inside, and then dig a five-pointed star and a simple favorite figure around the pumpkin with a knife. Then cut the bottom of a small candle with a knife, leaving only the wick inside. Finally, put the torpedo in the pumpkin and light the prepared candle on it, and the pumpkin lantern is simply born.
When everything is ready, you can put the pumpkin in the upper reaches of the river, and the pumpkin lantern will slowly flow to the middle of the river with the current. At this time, the pumpkin lantern is not as obvious as the moon, but the breeze blows the wick through the hole of the pumpkin lantern, and the light flashes inside the pumpkin, making the whole calm lake full of vitality and more special. When the candle burns to the last wick, it ignites the torpedo below, and the torpedo emits a flame, and then the pumpkins are arranged in five rows with a bang like Mars hitting the earth. The aunts who washed vegetables picked up the fried pumpkins and fed them to the pigs. Although the poor pumpkin passed through like this, it left us with infinite joy. When Zhu Gekongming invented the Kongming lantern that could fly in the sky, I think his only regret was that he didn't see the exploding pumpkin lantern!
When I was a child, the moon cakes were not as luxurious as they are now packaged. They were just wrapped in a layer of white paper and some lard oozed out. The stuffing inside is five kernels, including melon seeds, walnuts, peanuts and sesame seeds. Although the mooncakes when I was a child were not as delicious as they are now, and there were not so many styles, they brought us endless aftertaste, and so far we haven't had a chance to taste that simple taste.
Nowadays, with the progress of society, legal holidays have gradually become a business model, which is shrouded in layers of money. Everyone is comparing the preciousness of gifts with the richness of food. Although they look colorful, they don't have the original festive atmosphere. Perhaps many people will have unspeakable feelings in their hearts, and they can't tell us what the festival can interest us. Even if there is, it is only a general idea, and traditional festivals are gradually blurred in our hearts. The question of our remaining holidays is how many days off? Or something to eat? When future children ask about the origin of festivals, they may only get answers in books or on TV. I am glad that I know the Mid-Autumn Festival in my childhood memory, perhaps because of my personal experience, although my memory is still clear after many years.
20 13 lunar August