Literature of traditional Chinese festivals

Famous writers, right? I have one here by Wang Zengqi. There's also one by Feng Zikai, I can't seem to find it on the internet, look it up

The Lantern Festival in my hometown

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Author: Wang Zengqi

The New Year's Eve in my hometown is not very lively.

No lions, no dragon lanterns, no stilts, no dry-boats, no "big-headed monks playing Liu Cui", no flower tandems, no tea tandems. These are in the July 15 "meet" - race City God only when there, the Lantern is not. A lot of places Xing "haunted Lantern Festival", our Lantern Festival is quiet.

One year, there was a unicorn delivery. In the morning, three men from the countryside, one holding the unicorn - a long bench with a paper unicorn on the outside, a small gong, a cymbal, dong dong dang dong a gas, singing some auspicious songs in unison. " is very impressive. What does it mean? Is it a gerund? What is the gerund sound? There is no performance, no movement, and the tune is simple. There was no excitement at all when the unicorn was brought in, just a series of "gerbangbangs". "The grandmother gave them some money when they were finished.

There was no one at the gambling booth on the street where the dice were rolled to "drive the old sheep". The six dice were lying quietly at the bottom of a large bowl. The person who set up the gambling stall sat on a small bench and hugged his knees, staring blankly. The year is almost over, and the money we lost in preparation for New Year's Eve is almost gone, and there is still something to do tomorrow, so everyone is not excited about gambling.

There is a candy blower at the entrance of Grass Lane. Sun Monkey dances with a big sword and a mouse steals oil.

There is a noodle maker at the entrance of the North Market. Green Snake, White Snake and Old Fisherman. The old fisherman's straw raincoat is made of summer grass bought from a drugstore.

Watch the Tian Di Tan (Temple of Heaven and Earth) perform the "Tian Huzi" - a bamboo shaking performance, which is so loud that the Tian Huzi screams like a bull.

Went to the Taishan Temple to see old mothers burning incense. An old mom had cow shit on the bottom of her shoes and dried up.

The day was almost over.

But the Lantern Festival will not be counted until the evening, when the lights are on. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that. We don't call it the Lantern Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The festival of lights is a few days, thirteen on the lights, seventeen down lights. "The first day of the festival is the fifteenth day of the month.

The lamps in the houses were all lit up. In the house of the eldest mother, there were four glass square lamps. In my second mother's house, there were white glass lamps with red characters and a bead lamp. My stepmother's house was lit with red glazed bubbles. A room of lights, bright and gentle, looked auspicious.

Going up the street to see the horse lanterns. Lian Wanshun's house has a big lantern. "Country people don't know walking horse lanterns, - again." The lanterns are nothing more than shadows of carts, horses, and people (soldiers) turning back and forth, but you can watch it turn a few times. Later I did one myself, lit a candle, watched the inside of the paper wheel as much as turned, the outside of the paper screen as much as reflected in the shadow, very pleased. Qianlong and the lanterns and not "go", just a rectangular paper box, the front of the white paper with some colorful little people, little people connected to a hair, candle flame baked hot hair, little people's hands and feet will move up and down. Although it does not "walk", we still call it a walking lantern. Otherwise, call it what lamp? This outside the little man is the Tang Monk, the Monkey King, Piggy, Sha and the monk. The whole picture shows the Journey to the West where the Tang Monk fetches the scriptures.

Kids have their own lamps. Most of the rabbit lamps, hydrangea lamps, horse lamps ...... rabbit lamps are made by themselves. Four wheels are placed underneath and can be pulled around. Rabbit lamps are not really much like rabbits, with a round face, curved eyes, like human eyes, and two curved eyebrows! Hydrangea lamps and horse lamps were bought. The hydrangea lamp is a multi-faceted paper ball with a gimballed frame, a bamboo pole on the frame, and two wheels underneath the frame. Holding the bamboo pole in your hand, you push the ball forward, and the ball keeps rolling. Horse lanterns are two sections, a horse's head and a horse's ass, tied with a belt. Watermelon lamps, shrimp lamps, fish lamps, these hand-held lamps, is a child to play.

There is one custom that may not be found outside of the country: looking at the fence. Hardwood long square frame, about three feet high, feet and a half wide, inlaid with silk, painted on the story of a novel characters, before the festival of lights installed, a hall around the screen of about thirty, behind the screen light candles. This is actually illuminated comic strips. Look around the screen there are two places, one in the refining Yang Guan's side hall, one in the attached to the City God Temple in the Fire God Temple. The Refining Yang Guan was painted with the "Feng Shen Bang", and the Fire God Temple was painted with the "Three Kingdoms". How many years have I watched the circumference screen, but I still watch it every year. It's as if it's not a festival of lights if you don't look at the screen.

Some people put flowers on the street.

Some people set fire to the sky and then snuffed it out.

There is a red lantern in the sky. Bamboo gabion for the bone, outside the red paper, a rectangular tube, inside the lighted candles, put in the sky, the lantern is very good to put, even the brain line is not necessary, in a corner of the line on the line, you can fly up. Lanterns in the sky fluttering slightly, do not know why, see people have a little thin bleak.

The year is over, tomorrow 16, all the stores will be "open". I'm not sure if I'm a good person, but I'm a good person, and I'm a good person, and I'm a good person. On the sixth day of the month, we open two rows of doors to sell a little bit of the public's necessities, which is called "small open door". On the 16th, we remove all the doors, set off a firecracker and a few firecrackers, which is called "opening the big door", and start normal business. The year, so past.

February 12, 1993