Chapter 82 Lantern Festival I

I don't know when this day began to be regarded as an important festival, the Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty during the Ming Emperor period, the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, I heard that Buddhism has the fifteenth day of the first month of the monk to view the Buddha relics, light the lamp to worship the Buddha's practice, on the order to light the lamp in the palace and temple on this night to worship the Buddha, so that the common people of the scholar clan are hanging lamps. Later, this kind of Buddhist ritual festival gradually formed a folk grand festival. The festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, from the Central Plains to the whole country.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, it was decreed that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month should be designated as the Lantern Festival. In the original time and space, it is said that when it was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of the "Taiyi God" were set on the fifteenth day of the first month. (太一: The god who rules the universe is qiē). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a heavy festival.

Another theory is that the custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival originated from the "Three Yuan Theory" of Taoism; The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is the Midyear Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is the Lower Yuan Festival. The three elements in charge of the upper, middle and lower elements are the three officials of heaven, earth and man, and the heavenly officials are happy, so the Shangyuan Festival should be lit with lamps.

The festivals and customs of the Lantern Festival are extended and expanded with the development of history. It has been passed down to the present, and in some remote mountainous areas, even a more traditional way of celebrating the festival is retained, and every household puts up lanterns to spend the last day of the Spring Festival happily.

At the beginning of the hour, the city is lively during the day, and the lights are lit at night, which is magnificent. In particular, the delicate and colorful lights have added dragon dances, lion dances, dry boat running, stilt walking, Yangge twisting and other "hundred opera" contents.

Xin Ran was in a very good mood, the corners of her mouth kept tilting up, and the familiar festival gave her a sense of belonging, and the panic that had been suppressed in her heart suddenly dissipated.

She is a shallow dye and a sinister dye, not a shameless villain who occupies someone else's body, but a combination of two people, living with a new soul and a new body.

"Sister, are you leaving?" As soon as Xin Ran came back to his senses, he saw Xin Guo's little head poking in through the crack in the door, and his chubby little face was full of words, "Sister, let's go, let's go." ”

She beckoned, and the new guy scurried in and snuggled into her arms, "Guo'er, did you sleep well last night?" Is there any bedwetting? ”

As soon as Xin Guo heard the word bedwetting, she raised her eyebrows bitterly and looked at her pitifully, "Sister is so bad, Guo'er drank too much water that day to wet the bed, and it wasn't intentional, hum, Songzi wetted the bed." ’

puffing out his cheeks, unhappy, "Sister, bad ......" always makes fun of Guo'er.

The cute appearance of the child amused Xin Ran, and touched his fleshy little belly, "Are you hungry?" Go out and eat something delicious. ”

When a guy heard this, he knew that he was going out, and he jumped happily, oh, he was going out, and his mother said that there were a lot of delicious foods and fun things, and he had never seen them.

Holding my sister's hand, the two came to the yard, it seemed that my mother and aunt had been sitting for a while, let go of my sister's hand, and ran to the sleeping room.

"My mother and aunt are so good-looking today, the clothes are good-looking, the hairpins are also good-looking, and the people are even better-looking." Both of them changed into newly made clothes, pure cotton fabric, one dark purple and the other dark blue, looking a lot more energetic. It's just that they all have a silver hairpin on their heads, and the style is the same style. My mother's is a plum blossom, and my aunt's is a magnolia.

Aunt Xin touched the hairpin and said with a smile, "This is what your aunt gave me." "Before going to bed last night, her aunt suddenly took out two hairpins, saying that her son bought them, one for each of them. After pushing for a long time, her aunt was about to get angry.

After a while, the sound of the door opening sounded, Xin Guo put his arms around Zhao Mingcheng's neck and looked at everyone with a smile. "Guo'er, it's okay to come down and walk, the big brother will be tired."

The child is not young anymore, Xin Ran is not ready to be pampered all the time, hearing her sister's words, Xin Guo made a gesture to come down, Zhao Mingcheng hugged it, "I'm not tired, there are a lot of people outside today, I'll hold it." ”

After speaking, he took the lead out of the courtyard, and Xin Ran took his mother and Xia Wanru to follow behind. The store is inseparable from people, and the business at night is estimated to be better than during the day, but she also did not prepare an unlimited supply, only a hundred catties more than on weekdays. So that Daddy Li and they can rest and rest early.

Walking to the door, Xin Ran couldn't help but be speechless, I dripped, why are there so many people, the streets are deserted on weekdays and nights, crowded with people.

Guo'er nestled quietly in the arms of the eldest brother, with his small mouth open, many people, patted his chest carefully, fortunately the eldest brother hugged him, otherwise he couldn't see the road.

This is not the main road, see the lion dance procession on another road. At a glance, children are sitting on the shoulders of adults, otherwise they will be drowned in the crowd and will not see anything.

The well-to-do family is ready to go out early, why, of course, to taste all kinds of food!

If the family is a little worse, eat some at home, and then go out for a walk, look at the delicious food, and can't help but take out a few pennies to buy a solution to your cravings.

"It's so lively, let's go, let's see what's fun." The lively atmosphere infected everyone, and they couldn't wait to go out.

"Okay, okay, the fruit should be delicious." In order to have a stomach full of delicious food at night, the fruit didn't even eat dinner.

"I'll feed you enough tonight, little glutton. Mother, aunt, let's go eat too. "Three women walked in front, talking and laughing. Zhao Mingcheng consciously raised his legs to keep up.

The noisy scene only stays in the memory of childhood, and that is still a matter of the previous life. It's far!

"Mother, what is the hottest food today?" There are a lot of roadside stalls, most of them are for food, or listen to the opinions of the aborigines.

What does it mean to be hot, Aunt Xin didn't understand, and she guessed the general meaning when she heard the food. "Let's go eat a bowl of Lantern Festival first, according to the occasion."

A few years ago, wherever I came out to eat, I made some Lantern Festival at home, and then came out to see after eating. No wonder Xin Ran has too few memories of the Lantern Festival in his memory.

There are not many people who sell Lantern Festival along the way, although everyone can do it, but it is delicious and skillful, and it still takes effort.

Xin Ran smelled the smell and found a house, with a strong sesame fragrance, there were really a lot of people who ate it, so I found a place and sat down as a family.

"Guest, how many bowls? Our bowl of eight is full. "Four bowls, boss, what's the stuffing?" How do I smell a faint smell of osmanthus? ”

Xin Ran shrugged his nose, it was so fragrant, and he only smelled the faint fragrance when he sat down.

"Sesame, bean paste and sugar osmanthus, Miss is really amazing, this is my lady picked and dried last year, but the taste is scattered, only a little fragrance remains." The man said happily.