When I was a kid, my hometown life is not rich, farmers are busy all year round, rarely have a few days of leisure time. In the winter, the adults in addition to the busy whole terraces, digging the river, is to the ground to transport farmyard fertilizer, accumulation of manure, every day there are things to do. Only after the New Year on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year can they really be free, and families start to busy themselves with the New Year. Pancakes, fried meatballs, chopping stuffing, sticking pairs, these adults busy things we children generally do not participate in our main task before and after the New Year is to play crazy. This is the time to go to school brother and sister are also on vacation, to the front of the year adults do not urge to write homework, brother with his brother, sister with his sister, we are from the production team on the wheat field, cowsheds, to the village outside the icy river, snow in the vegetable field, rolling iron ring, throwing sandbags, hide and seek, hopscotch, hit the boulder, play everywhere, everywhere, laugh, when the jokes of joy.
From the second day of the year, the children followed the adults to start walking relatives. On the narrow dirt road in the countryside, there were groups of people wearing new clothes, carrying newly steamed buns, newly fried deep-fried noodle cakes, newly wrapped peach cakes, and all kinds of gifts wrapped in different kinds of packages. With happy smiles on their faces, they led their naughty sons and beautiful daughters towards their relatives' houses. Although the gifts were not too expensive, the strong affection was very warm. At that time, usually only one day to go to a relative, to whose home to stay for dinner, the relatives of a busy, happy, drinking wine, pulling the gossip, inquiring about the crops, exchanging the experience of planting, asking about the children's achievements, so that people feel the weight of kinship. The children usually can receive grandpa, uncle, aunt and uncle to give a few pennies, that happy mood than now pick up a gold treasure is also happy.
After the relatives, we have to prepare for the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival in our hometown is also called the small year, visible to the importance of this festival. Only after the small year, the first month 16 married daughter back to her mother's home to go through the "hundred diseases", the entire Spring Festival is officially over, when the adults began to go down to the ground, the students began to go to school, the village to restore the peace of the past. Therefore, the Lantern Festival was the last carnival of the year for us. Although life was difficult and materials were scarce at that time, fireworks and lantern races were a must at the Lantern Festival. At that time, we did not have large fireworks, there was only a long tail with a "gas fire", "day" drilled into the sky before the sound of the "Cannon in the sky", constantly circling the ground, "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog", "groundhog". The "Jigoku" (ground mouse), and the "Tiroujiru" (chicken), which sparked when you lit it in your hand, were the most popular. Of course, the proudest thing is the various kinds of small lanterns made by adults, including noodle lanterns, paper lanterns, wind lanterns with glass frames, and slightly luxurious silk lanterns, which are also various, but usually handmade. Hand sorghum straw to make the frame, can be made into a round, square, but also made into a six-pronged, octagonal, the outside of the paste paste on the red, yellow, green flower paper. Although this kind of lamp is simple, but also need to spend money to buy paper to buy candles, this kind of lamp not only can show the adults' craftsmanship, but also show the standard of living of each family. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know what to do, but I'd like to know what to do, and I'd like to know what I'm doing.
The turnip lamps were affordable and beautiful, and they were a sight to behold in our village. Every year, after the radish harvest in early winter, my dad would pick out different shapes of radishes suitable for making lanterns and put them in a single place, burying them in the soil to prevent them from sprouting or being hollowed out. On the day of the Lantern Festival, he would peel them out, wash them, remove their heads and tails, and then use a fruit knife to carve out a variety of small animal shapes such as rabbits, puppies, bears, pigs, and so on; there are some that directly utilize the cylindrical shapes, and in the middle of the radish flesh is hollowed out, and around it are carefully carved out chrysanthemums, lotuses, and other different flower shapes, and it is a lot of work to carve out the flowers, and the skin breaks when you exert yourself a little bit; and you don't have to buy candles, so you can just pour soybean oil into the middle of the radish in different shapes and insert a twist of thin wire. twist, with a thin wire for the system, a long bamboo pole to lift, is a beautiful lantern. Turnip lamps lighted crystal clear, lovely shape, especially the middle of the hollow kind, the middle of the translucent, around the various colors of flowers, grass is reflected as if alive in general. Radish lamps also have a variety of colors, green radish lamps verdant, white radish lamps crystal clear, red radish lamps festive and beautiful, radish lamps, although cheap, but to the village killed a lot of paper lanterns.
The sky is slowly dark, we do not eat the Lantern Festival, not eat dumplings, only eat dumplings, this custom has been continued to the present. After eating dumplings, we wear thick cotton clothes, wearing thick gloves, hand carrying a variety of turnip lamps, to the village of the most lively place to race lamps. The night of the Lantern Festival is a time of revelry in the countryside, with red lanterns hanging in front of every house, bonfires burning on the ground, and children carrying lanterns of various colors, running around, shouting and playing, and occasionally someone would set off a "groundhog", which would spark in the crowd. Crowds of people in the circle, the sky from time to time "bang" sounded a "diamond cannon" explosion, will cause a group of little girls screaming. Little boys with their right hands ahead of the lanterns, the left hand pointing "Tillo chicken", this door shouted a brother, that door about the companions, then the whole family came out to catch up with the fun. Children's hands are carrying different lanterns, flickering fire reflected the village, the village simply into a sea of lights, near the lights reflected in people's faces, the distant lights are hidden, like the Grand View Garden in the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. This a different shape of the lanterns, both the children play with the lamps, but also adults craft show, in these lanterns, my father did the turnip lamp the most money, but I think the turnip lamp is the most beautiful in the village.
A small radish lamp, so that we are full of future life, illuminating the direction of our new life, I miss the childhood radish lamp.
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