Traditionally, from the beginning of the new year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the year is not over.

There are many regions in China that call the fifteenth day of the first lunar month the Great Year.

All ethnic groups throughout the country have the custom of solemnly celebrating on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In the south, because of the ethnic and regional nature, there are many kinds of celebrations, but in the north, it is basically a lantern.

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the Lantern Festival, so there is a saying that there are lanterns.

All over the north there are grand lantern displays on this day, and people brave the cold and dress in new clothes and go out of their homes in droves in the evening to enjoy the annual lantern display.

Generally, the lantern festival is in a relatively open park, where there are mountains and lakes, and all kinds of whimsical lanterns of all sizes are placed on the roadside, and people enjoy them along the road while eating various snacks.

The lanterns are various, colorful, the theme is auspicious blessings, joy and harvest, there are also fairy and ghost legends, the big lanterns are as big as a house, the small ones are only the size of a fist, static, moving, with sound effects, with music, can breathe fire, rotate, bloom, and so on.

Children will receive a gift on this day, which is a small lantern in their hands.

The children in the countryside are hand-tied by adults, and a candle is lit inside, although it is not very beautiful and very easy to extinguish, but it also makes the children very happy, carrying it all over the village.

Most of the kids in the city are bought plastic, brightly colored, with a small light bulb inside and a battery hidden in the handle.

The common ones are lotus lamps or animal-shaped lamps, and there are also high-end ones, such as marquee lamps or lamps with open and closed functions, which are much more expensive.

Ordinary people's families, during the New Year, are also willing to spend a few dollars to buy one for their children, but they will carefully put away the packaging, and wait for the festival, and then carry the child to carefully re-wrap the lamp and put it away, and take it out in the second year or a new lamp, or exchange it between neighbors and colleagues, so as not to let the child cry because of a shape for several consecutive years.

There are also more naughty children, it is good to take the lamp out, and it will be broken when you take it back, and you can't escape from a beating, but the good thing is that he has a new lamp in the second year, so whether a thing is a good thing or a bad thing really can't be decided in a simple word.

This year's Lantern Festival in Benxi is in Garden Hill, which is Wangxi Park.

In fact, the Lantern Festival in Benxi is here.

Some enterprises also have their own lantern festivals, but the scale is much worse, most of them are for internal employees to enjoy themselves and not to the outside. The factories and mines under Benxi Iron and Steel will be opened, and they are all external, and the scale is not small, because the factories and mines under Benxi Iron and Steel are often a district and town with a large population base.

At that time, there were not so many parties except for the Spring Festival Gala, and the people's spare time life was very monotonous, so enterprises and the government were willing to hold some activities to enrich the lives of the people. Later, TV culture became more and more developed, and there were fewer and fewer such activities, and in the Internet era, even TV was abandoned, and people basically lived with mobile phones, and the two of them relied on WeChat to talk: Honey, what are you eating? Whatever! Honey, it's been a few days, and I'll post it today? The drama I'm chasing has just been updated. Look up at me, my dear. "Whoosh" over for a selfie.

At half past four in the afternoon, Zhang Xingming's family had dinner, packed up, and went out to Huayuan Mountain.

Grandpa doesn't want to go out, but when he gets older, he is cold.

The younger brother Mao Jun is holding a lantern in his hand, the younger brother is holding Sun Wukong's, the handle is a golden hoop stick, and Mao Jun is holding a little tiger.

Along the way, the younger brother was always using his own lanterns to hit Mao Jun, shouting: "Wu Song fights the tiger." "Sun Wukong fights tigers. "Come, come, sacrifice the tiger skin, spare your life." Mao Jun said: "Xiaobing, can you be honest for a while? You are not tired, Sun Wukong is tired." ”

Sister Xiaoying didn't come back with the second aunt in the hospital, the girl is more reliable than the boy, Xiaobing has eased emotionally these days, and the fun-loving characteristics are back, and they are together with the little brother Mao Junya.

Sister Mao Lan and her brother walked side by side behind a few naughty bags, looking much more stable, followed by Mom, Father, Uncle Mao, Aunt Mao, Zhang Xingming and Li Chun walking aside.

Uncle Mao and Aunt Mao, in addition to going back to their hometown to visit the old man during the Spring Festival, basically spent it at Zhang Xingming's house.

The closer you are to the park, the more people get up, the sounds of children laughing are everywhere, the adults are also in groups of threes and fives, everyone has a smile on their faces, and the neighborhood relationship in this era is unimaginable in later generations, and even better than the relationship between most families and relatives in later generations.

When we arrived at the entrance of the park, it was completely dark, and the crowd gathered into a crowd, and at a glance, the colorful lights were full of people's heads.

The stalls that do small business are from the entrance of the park to the lantern area, the park is open for free tonight, the staff are maintaining order, no one cares, and they don't want to care, just one day a year, let everyone be happy.

Selling small lanterns, selling masks, balloons, all kinds of snacks, rings, throwing sandbags, throwing mahjong tiles, all kinds of small games, all around the dense crowd, laughing from time to time, attracting more people to the past.

There were a lot of people, and the girl ran to Sister Mao Lan's side, Xiaobing and Zhang Xingming came together, only Xiaodi and Mao Jun took the lantern and squeezed it, and they were very busy and happy.

Li Chun couldn't move and followed Zhang Xingming's side, Tang Xin and the three of them dispersed, one took care of the younger brother and Mao Jun in front, the other followed his father and the four of them, and the other took charge of the overall situation from afar and supported him at any time.

Trouble lanterns are inseparable from lamp fans, regardless of size, each lantern has lantern fans for visitors to guess and play, large lantern fans more, small lanterns generally only one, all around a bunch of people there to discuss and guess, some have the answer in their hearts to remember the light number, go to the staff to report the bottom of the mystery, if the right will get a prize, and then the staff will come to replace the fan.

The prize is also some towels, handkerchiefs, basins, pens and so on, which are not valuable, but represent honor and happiness. There are also abundant ones, such as flashlights, radios, and kettles, but there are very few of them.

The flow of people into the lantern area slowed down, each large lantern in front of a lot of people are watching, from time to time to let out exclamations, people in this era really have not seen anything, a little bit of bad street tricks in the future can provoke a voice.

Except for a few static ones, large lanterns are actional, a cycle of about a few minutes to more than ten minutes, people always have to see the complete and then go forward, or particularly beautiful will even attract people to see a few cycles, more and more people gather.