The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and it is also the most important festival of the entire Chinese nation, including overseas Chinese. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and it also becomes the first month. The ancients called the night night, so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the Lantern Festival.

In ancient times, there were three sections, collectively known as the three elements. They are the Shangyuan Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Middle Yuan Festival, the Obon Festival, and the Xiayuan Water-saving Official Festival. According to research, the Lantern Festival originally began in the Qin Dynasty, and when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was known, it was officially established, and it was one of the important festivals of the famous Sima Qian.

The traditional customs of the Lantern Festival vary from place to place, but eating Lantern Festival is available everywhere. For example, other things such as going out to admire the moon, lighting lights and setting off fireworks, guessing lantern riddles, playing lions, playing dragon lanterns and so on are completely local characteristics.

In Wangjiazhuang, the Lantern Festival is very deserted. In addition to eating Lantern Festival, which is a reserved item in various places, at most, two large lanterns are lit at the gate of each house, and then the lights in the courtyard are not extinguished until the time of sleep.

As for fireworks or something, it's nothing, it's all done everywhere, and it's not distinctive at all.

Most of the Lantern Festival every year is like this, honestly sitting at home watching the party, or going to the neighbors and villagers to chat, that's it. But the children, who have that fun, will make a small lantern. An ordinary glass jar with a candle inside.

Of course, you have to light a candle first, keep dripping the wax oil, and when it's almost time to quickly squat down on the wax oil that has not yet solidified, a simple lantern is ready.

A bunch of little kids would crawl out into the streets with these little lanterns, and the bear kids would take some firewood from someone's firewood pile, find an open spot, and light a bonfire and shout as they roasted it.

Even if you are seen by the owner's family, you don't have to worry about being scolded and reprimanded on this day. Because the host will also see it, and will only come forward to roast the fire. According to the old man, roasting the fire on this day, roasting there and there for a year will not hurt, and there will be no illness! (The house was convinced when I was a child!) ）

However, as people get richer and higher, and all kinds of entertainment activities and facilities become more and more available, many old traditions have disappeared. On a cold day, who wants to run outside in the cold and shiver? Isn't it uncomfortable to be idle at home without any fun and delicious food?

Now, every house has air conditioning, heating, color TV, DVD, and even VCD has been eliminated in Wangjiazhuang! More than half of the people have already bought a computer, oh, everyone is more accustomed to calling it a microcomputer.

The access of cable TV makes almost everyone reluctant to run out on a cold night to engage in customs and traditions, and they all hide in the warm home and eat all kinds of snacks and snacks, and quarrel about which station to watch. The relationship between people has become more and more indifferent in such quarrels!

However, the old secretary soon couldn't stay idle and came out to meddle in his affairs. Since the beginning of this year, there has been an additional Lantern Festival project in the village. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy all kinds of lanterns, and they were already lit up as soon as it got dark.

Not only in front of every house, but also on the street lamps on both sides of the street were forced to hang two big red guys who were robbing them of business, provoking their little faces to be sallow, for fear that they would no longer be useful in the future.

The most lively is the village square, where the various ice sculptures and ice lanterns made by splashing water into ice are the most attractive to the big girls and little daughters-in-law, and then naturally a group of swinging boys will follow up to offer their hospitality.

This was made by the extremely old master who spent a lot of money to go to the ice city for a week, and the whole village was condensed into the ice sculpture by these skilled masters, and it was presented to everyone very intuitively.

Amazing! Absolutely stunning!

Even people who have lived in the village all their lives have never imagined that their village would be so beautiful and so desirable.

Green vegetables, purple and red flowers, white greenhouses, neatly arranged small buildings in the new district, straight streets, huge farmers' markets, small puddles dotted around the village, and the small river that flows quietly from the middle of the village are all clearly displayed.

"I didn't expect these things to be so beautiful together?"

"Yes! You said that we have lived in the village all our lives, and I really don't feel that the village is so beautiful. ”

"This money is not in vain! Good! ”

"Beautiful! It's so pretty! ”

"Hey, second sister, do you see that one in black?"

"Where? Where? ”

"I'll see, I'll see?"

"The second sister is so beautiful, it must be that someone among those masters has taken a fancy to the second sister!"

"Whoa! See if I don't tear that mouth of yours! ”

At the end of the street, there is also a 42-inch large plasma TV in the square, which was specially customized from a Korean manufacturer at a large price. It began to open in the afternoon and lock the CCTV channel.

The Lantern Festival party is eight o'clock in the evening, in order not to delay everyone to watch the party, the first ******** of Wangjiazhuang was specially arranged after the end of the news broadcast at half past seven.

When the familiar music sounded, the professional ******** team that spent more than one million yuan began to light fireworks of different shapes, lighting up the entire night sky.

Nowadays, technology has been very developed, and all the fireworks used in fireworks displays are no longer the kind that need to be lit by people coming to them with incense. With a control platform and piles of wires of different thicknesses, one person can handle the entire fireworks display process.

The half-hour fireworks show ended at the last minute of the hour, with the reluctant eyes of the people who looked up and their necks stiffened.

"Professional in the end! I don't know how these people did it? ”

"That's it, that's it, I'll have a whole set of this stuff when I celebrate the New Year next year, it's so enjoyable!"

Wang Yongyin rolled his eyes when he heard it in the crowd, but he also knew that there were probably not only one or two people who had this kind of thought. Especially for those young people who have just started a family and are in charge of power, if they don't get one of such a trendy thing back, how can they appear to be mavericks, how can they seem to be unusual?

Merchants never let go of this opportunity to make money, for them, the more everyone pays attention to the festival, the more they make money.

Originally, the mutton skewers were five cents a string on weekdays, but now no one scolds the profiteers for a string of dollars, and some people tell the boss that he is really doing business! Hearing this, Wang Yong's head was full of sweat, and he couldn't bother to wipe it, so he quickly fled.

However, for these merchants who give up reuniting with their families and serving the public during the festival, as long as they are not profiteers who do not compromise their means, it is not too tolerant.

(The house has been in the service industry for four or five years, and it has been the turn of duty twice during the Spring Festival.) On the night of the Spring Festival, I led my brothers to guard the empty room, and I vividly listened to the radio! ）

A large number of bonfires were lit in the square where the village had just been put into use, and the high-end audio equipment imported from abroad in the villagers' activity center was moved out, causing everyone to perform on stage.

Most of them are this kind of people who focus on participation, and even if they are coaxed out of power by the villagers, no one is angry. It's been a year of hard work, so it's just a matter of having fun.

After a round of spare, Wang Yong looked at the lively street, with a smile on his face, holding a white and tender little hand, and just wanted to hide in a hidden place to complain to each other and make love, he was angered by a ridiculous voice.

"Yo? Isn't this Wang Yong? ”

"Oops! What are you yelling about? Don't you see people accompanying your little daughter-in-law? ”

"That's it, both of them have tender faces, isn't it a good thing for you to shout like this?"

"You have to be careful, you have been remembered by Wang Yong for a whole year, you are miserable!"

"Damn, Yang Hui! I said, what are you hiding? So you're waiting here? ”

"Daddy! Li Qiang, why are you so pitiful! ”

"What are you doing? It's okay to be idle, right? All for Lao Tzu to patrol! If there's one person left, you bastards are going to have to be honest with me! ”

The old secretary roared, and the group of guys immediately scattered and fled. It's just that the old secretary didn't give it for nothing, he had already guarded against them, and before he could run into the crowd, a few men in police uniforms rushed out, grabbed a few people who were left behind, and slipped to the old secretary.

As a result, the brothers were quiet in the dead of night at one o'clock in the evening, and they still bent down to beg Wang Yong, who wore a cotton coat, wrapped himself tightly, and drank a little wine from time to time.

"Shall we go home quickly?"

"Big brother, can't I be wrong?"

"Why don't we kneel down for you?"

"If you don't leave, you're really going to die!"

These guys who want to take advantage of this opportunity to attract the attention of the opposite sex, but want to be demeanor and not warm up, trembling around Wang Yong and begging, with a declining face, no longer the hippie smile that he used to tease Wang Yong before.

"Oops! The night is long, and under the moonlight, I have no intention of sleeping! ”

Wang Yong raised a glass to invite the bright moon, raised a glass to the moon with one hand, held his forehead with the other, and was about to recite Su Daxian's famous poems with one hand to let them go, and when he went back to sleep with a good mood, an angry voice sounded behind him.

"Really? Do you want me to have a drink with you? ”

As soon as Wang Yong heard this voice, he didn't say a word, and immediately jumped up and ran like a frightened rabbit. Disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye, without a trace.

Only a compliment was left in the empty and silent square.

"It's still Brother Chen who is powerful, and a word scared this kid out of the wilderness and fled."

"That's it, that's it!"

"Admire, admire!"

"Cow!"

"What a! Do you have nothing to do with him? Fight him, do you have that head? ”

"Why don't you go back to sleep, and want to freeze into an ice sculpture for everyone to admire tomorrow?"

As a rush of footsteps gradually disappeared into the distance, and then a dog barked one after another, slowly, the whole village finally quieted down, only a few police cars silently flashed police lights under the gaze of the full moon overhead, vigilantly guarding this peaceful, happy village. (To be continued.) )