The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is here in a blink of an eye, and when the New Year is approaching, the grass market will see the vendors who carry pink hand-tied lanterns to bundle along the street, and hundreds of lanterns are tied to a thick bamboo pole with a hemp rope, like a big grinding plate, and the live buckle tied with the hemp rope is sold with the solution. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Lantern Festival of later generations, it is not as grand as now, here is from the eighth to the seventeenth day of the first month of the whole ten days, every household is lit up, at least two or three lanterns must be hung on the door, Zhang Zhaohua and Zhang Qi Zhang Sheng went to Yongcheng County to play for a day on the thirteenth, when he came back at night, he could see the fireworks from both sides of the official road like a shower of stars, especially the lights at night, it was even more spectacular - a small county town is like this, it is conceivable that the capital Qinhuai River, must be as written in the poem" The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and it blows down, and the stars are like rain".

The lanterns in the city are exquisitely made, and there are many kinds, they can dazzle people, not to mention the yarn lanterns, flower blue lanterns, dragon and phoenix lanterns, angular lamps, tree lamps, ceremonial lanterns, etc., various shapes are round, square, cylindrical, polygonal, and the production materials are made of bamboo and wood, yarn silk, silk spikes, feathers, shells, etc., only said that the inscription on the lamp is paper-cutting, calligraphy and painting, poetry or something, and it is novel and interesting to look at.

The lamps in the countryside are also sold, they are rougher, and there are not so many new tricks, that is, the red and green look good, and most of them are made by themselves, and if they do more, they will be sold, and ten will only cost two pennies.

Zhang Qi can do it, and to make an octagonal lamp is to use reed rods, red paper, thread, scissors and glue. Fold the reed pole into four parts, put it together into a square, and tie the stitched place with thread, and a frame is made. Make five squares of the same size in a row, tie the four boxes diagonally together, and then tie the remaining two squares together like the previous four, and the lantern frame is formed.

The mold is out, and the next step is to paste paper beautification, which is also the last process to comb the waist and paste red paper on the waist of the lantern. Many auspicious patterns can be drawn on the red paper in advance, and after wrapping the waist, the two ends are wrapped with colored paper of other colors, and a hand-tied lantern lantern is done, which is also very beautiful.

"Nan," Wang's voice came, "go and pick a candle, the light of the lantern on the door is dim." ”

Zhang Zhaohua answered, walked to the door, and picked off the two lanterns hanging by the door with a long pole, and sure enough, it looked much darker, Zhang Zhaohua took the needle inserted in the stack, and inserted it through the hole, so that the specific position can be seen from the lamp surface, and the lamp next to the candle was peeled off, and it was really much brighter.

Zhang Zhaohua picked up the lamp, and saw a group of children passing by through the crack in the door, all carrying lamps in their hands, but not paper lamps, but radish lamps.

This kind of lamp is to coax children to play, find a big radish, cut a hole from the middle, pour some kerosene into it, put a wick, and then put a small stick, and then use a wire to penetrate into it, wrap a small stick on the wire, light the wick, it is a radish lamp, it is to pass the children, but the children like it very much.

Zhang Zhaohua returned to the house, listening to the voice from the big room next door, it seemed that Wang was talking to the bride, and both of them were laughing - Zhang Zhaohua sighed, this time it's okay, the person who can't be happy is her who has accumulated things in her heart.

Why is there something in my heart, that is, the wrench on the table in front of me is harmful.

Zhang Zhaohua sighed, stretched out his hand and lifted up the thing that caused her to not sleep well for two days, and put it under the light to take a closer look. Delicately like ivory, there are pure black stripes, like a galaxy, illuminated by candlelight, very bright and dazzling, and many and flourishing sunspots can be faintly seen inside, which is dizzying and fascinated every time.

She had laughed at the previous owner of the wrench, and now she felt that she was the one who should be laughed at.

Worth 100,000 dollars - this sentence may be a little exaggerated, but it is true that it is worth a lot of money, and it is indeed rare and rare. I still remember that she showed it to the grain chief, who looked at the material and said that it looked like antlers.

"The horns of Qiandahan," Zhang Zhaohua said, "what is this?"

"Oh, it's the horns of this thing," said the grain chief, "and he is also a deer, but it is a rare bird, like a yak, with a body very similar to a camel, and four long legs similar to a camel, and a shoulder as high as a hump." And only the male beast has horns on his head, and the female beast does not. ”

"Where is this thing?" Zhang Zhaohua asked, "Is it an animal outside the gate?"

"I don't remember that exactly," said the grain chief, standing up and beginning to flip through the book, "I need to look for it." ”

The two of them flipped through the book for an afternoon, and finally found it in the illustrated book, Zhang Zhaohua looked at the dense text on it, and asked: "Say that this kind of deer is in the Buxian Mountain - where is the Buxian Mountain?"

"Buxian Mountain is the ancient name of Baitou Mountain," the grain chief said: "It is far away in the northeast, farther than the Heihe River." ”

Zhang Zhaohua exclaimed, Baitou Mountain should be Changbai Mountain, I didn't expect that this thing is actually a rare bird in Changbai Mountain, and listening to Gao Xu's words, it is only among more than 100 heads that you can find one with black literature and science, wouldn't it be more precious.

"Didn't you say that it was just an ordinary eunuch's family," Zhang Zhaohua muttered: "As a vassal king's long history, can the family be so rich?"

As he spoke, he picked it up and looked at it carefully, and asked, "Why is it slope-shaped, not round?"

The shape of this wrench is very strange, it is not round, it is actually a ladder with one side high and one low, which is completely different from what she saw in later life, and she wants to know what the truth is.

Hearing her ask this, the grain chief was surprised, and asked, "Why is it not that the slope is round, have you ever seen a round one?"

Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly said: "Isn't there a round wrench?"

"I haven't seen a round wrench so far," the grain chief shook his head and said: "Zheng, first seen in the Shang Dynasty, was frequently used after the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, it is used to buckle the bowstring, and it can also prevent the bowstring from scratching the fingers." This thing is only high on one side and low on the other side, so it can hold down the bowstring - I haven't thought about this if you say round, I don't know if it will slip, or if it has something to do with the shape of the bow. ”

Zhang Zhaohua suddenly remembered that there was such an article in later generations that studied the last years of the Qing Dynasty, saying that there was a saying in old Beijing, called "three treasures in Baylor's hand, a wrench, a walnut, and a caged bird", and said that the children of the Eight Banners competed to make wrenches with precious materials such as rhino horn and ivory jade, and compared them with each other to show off.

Zhang Zhaohua remembered that the round wrench he saw seemed to be indeed handed down from the Qing Dynasty, does that mean that in the dynasties before the Qing Dynasty, the style of the wrench was only slope--then this is the difference between the regional customs of the Han and the Manchus, and it is not a problem with the bowstring.

The grain chief asked where he came from, and Zhang Zhaohua also came from 1510, and said: "That Gao Xu's family is in Tongzhou in the north, maybe Tongzhou City is prosperous, and he can pick such good things." ”

The grain chief said thoughtfully: "Tongzhou is greatly influenced by Jin and Yuan, and it is different from the south. ”

"He also has a white jade wrench," Zhang Zhaohua said, "The price must be higher than this one, otherwise he will give me that one." ”

"And a white jade wrench?" this time the grain chief shook his head and said, "It won't be more valuable than this one." Folks mostly use horse bones and sheep bones as wrenches, and those who are richer use deer bones or jade - even if it is mutton fat jade, it is not worth this one. ”

"How much can it be worth?" Zhang Zhaohua looked at him with sparkling eyes.

"Sell ten of you," the grain chief laughed, "It's just worth the price." ”