In a blink of an eye, the Chinese New Year came, and Lan Eucalyptus was not much excited except for collecting the New Year's money, and the fireworks that she liked to play with the most when she was a child were banned in the community where she lived, and suddenly the Spring Festival became boring. At this time, the blue eucalyptus has to envy those children who live in the countryside, I heard that the countryside has a strong New Year's flavor! On this day, she was taking a nap in the bedroom, and her mother suddenly woke her up: "You have a classmate named Xiuxiu, right?" She's calling you! Lan Yu had no choice but to rub her sleepy eyes and straighten up, kick and drag her cotton shoes to the living room to answer the phone.

Because of the transfer to the art class, Lan Yu didn't contact Xiuxiu for a long time. "I didn't expect my old table mate to think of me today, could it be that he was looking for me to hang out?" Lan Eucalyptus thought to herself......

Putting down the phone, she couldn't help laughing, sure enough, it turned out that the District Cultural Palace had a lantern riddle meeting on the day of the Lantern Festival, and Xiuxiu thought that the foundation of blue eucalyptus was better than her own, and friends who hadn't seen her for a long time could still get together by the way. Lan Eucalyptus talked about the lanterns on Liufang Street with great interest, which happened to be across the road from the District Cultural Palace, and simply played the two projects together. So the arrangement for that day was decided.

On the evening of the Lantern Festival, the sky was full of sunshine, and the blue eucalyptus ate a bowl of sweet and glutinous bean paste stuffed rice balls and hurriedly went out. She and Xiuxiu made an appointment to meet at the gate of the District Cultural Palace at 5 o'clock, so they didn't eat dinner out in order not to delay the time, and few snack bars opened during the Chinese New Year. The buses are not more relaxed than on weekends, and almost all the people in the city go to Liufang Street with relatives and friends to watch the lights that night, so most of the passenger flow is on the bus route to Liufang Street. Lan Yu finally squeezed off the bus, and at 4:50, she didn't walk a few steps before she saw Xiuxiu standing at the gate of the Cultural Palace waiting for her.

"What time did you come?" "It's just been a while, hurry up, the riddle is only until seven o'clock, and then it's too late to be guessed!" "Why didn't you say it earlier?" "The lanterns didn't start so early!" Both laughed.

From a distance, I saw a group of people inside and outside the hall of the Cultural Palace, a circle of red nylon rope tied to four pillars, and some empty spaces on the rope were glued with red, red, green and green colored paper, and there were traces of glue in the empty spaces. There were only two-thirds of the riddles left, and Lan Eucalyptus and Xiuxiu immediately guessed separately.

Lan Eucalyptus picked up a lantern riddle written on red paper, only to see that the paper was written in regular script: "Three or two o'clock behind the clean (type)". "This is simple, the combination of the words behind the three points of water and the two points of water is the word 'quiet'!" Lan Eucalyptus clapped his hands and laughed, happily taking this lantern riddle into his pocket. I saw the green strip of paper on the side and wrote: "The sky is angry like fire (type a 3-word environmental protection noun)." This went around in circles, and Lan Yu gently tapped his lips with his fingertips and thought carefully: if the sky is "sky", anger is "qi", and fire can be understood as "burning", ah! Isn't this "natural gas"? Lan Eucalyptus guessed one more correctly, pulled out the note and pulled it in his hand.

There was an old woman next to her who was also thinking about it: "Little sister, can you help me see what this will be?" Lan Eucalyptus came to the front and looked carefully: "Under mercy, Guanyin prays to heaven to understand people (playing an idiom)...... This is really hard, let me help you think about it...... Grandma, I got it! "Blue eucalyptus suddenly opened, "That's the case, 'under mercy', so there must be two heart 'words' in the riddle, because it is said to be the lower part of the word, 'Guanyin' here is the homonym of 'crown sound', which means that the 'sound' is placed in the upper part of the heart, which is combined into a word 'meaning', 'pray for heaven to solve people' is to disassemble the strokes in the word 'day' to remove 'people', then leave two 'one' words, so the riddle of this lantern riddle is 'one heart'. As he spoke, he respectfully took off the red paper and stuffed it into the old woman's hand. The old grandmother was naturally overjoyed, her smile overflowed from the wrinkles, and she praised the blue eucalyptus for being smart.

The blue eucalyptus then guessed in a clockwise direction, and after looking at several photos in a row, he didn't see it, and maybe the rest was more difficult. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, "This answer can't be Han Xin, right?" Lan Yu couldn't help but snicker, it just so happened that she had just finished reading a book on the history of the Han Dynasty a few days ago, and she could see it almost at a glance. Guess the lantern riddle really has a routine, most of the riddles are the mystery of the text of the text interpretation, there are also like this question is to describe the structure of the text: after the loss of the halberd of Dian Wei, the executor who is more forward (playing the name of a Han Dynasty character), "after the loss of the halberd" is to remove the "Ge" of the second half of the word "halberd", replaced with the "Wei" of Dian Wei, spelled into the word "Han", "despot" is to leave a single person next to it, "who is more forward" is to get the leftmost "Yan" of the word "who", so that is the word "letter". So the answer to the mystery is "Han Shin".

Turning another pillar, Lan Yu almost collided with Xiuxiu, who only cared about guessing riddles and didn't look at people, Xiuxiu looked up and saw Lan Yu, and hurriedly pulled her wrist and pointed out a lantern riddle not far away to her, "Help me take a look at this, it feels very simple, but I just can't think of it." The riddle is indeed simple, with only five words: "One rain and many mountains and greens (playing an idiom)". Lan Yu stared at the paper and thought about it for a long time and was at a loss, and suddenly she felt that she usually said "it rains all the time", but she didn't write the word "world", and the riddle was "the world". The two couldn't help but clap their hands. "Blue Eucalyptus, you are amazing!" "Maybe we were lucky...... Hey, there's such a long riddle over here...... Hmm~ I guessed it, you can take a look too. ”

"Why don't you wait for the Qing to think about flesh and blood, and the secretary is important to the soldier (play the name of a foreign writer), the riddle comes from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" ......" Xiuxiu suddenly looked at Lan Yu and smiled, "I also know what the answer is, although this riddle is long, it is not difficult to guess." "Otherwise, let's not talk about it, write it all down, and see who is right and who is wrong." The two of them each took out a pen from their bags and wrote quickly in the palm of their hands. "One...... Two...... Three ......" Lan Eucalyptus and Xiuxiu revealed the mystery at the same time: "Tolstoy! ”

Xiuxiu saw that it was getting late outside the window, so she proposed to redeem the prize, and the others couldn't guess. Lan Yu followed Xiuxiu slowly, and took the few lantern riddles she took off in her hand and figured them out one by one, these riddles were: the text of the book with Fang Xian (the name of an ancient book); The rest of the white expanse (2 words environmental noun); Asking the voice secretly who the talker is (2 words environmental noun); Moving mountains to make paddy fields, in the blink of an eye and another day (typing a newspaper style). Xiuxiu walked to the prize redemption office and reported the riddle one by one: vanilla notes, self-purification, sound quality, and comics, and the staff checked the answers and told her that they were all right. Lan Eucalyptus also exchanged the lantern riddles in his hand for prizes, and the two walked out of the District Cultural Palace happily with a bunch of snacks and drinks.

The streets were full of traffic, and from a distance, I could see a crowd of people across the road. A tall archway carved by bluestone stands at the entrance of the ancient street, with three big characters on the book 'Liufang Street', the bluestone is mottled and mottled, and it has been quite a few years to be examined. On both sides, the white walls of Daiwa, the eaves flow corners, the pavilions are staggered, and the antique color is ancient. The uneven stone road stretches to the depths of the alley, and all kinds of lanterns are particularly psychedelic and colorful against the backdrop of the night.

"Oops, that panda lantern moves!" Xiuxiu went straight over and stared at her curiously. Originally, the lantern is also divided into "enterprise lantern" and "live lamp", this live lamp is installed at each joint of the "panda" place, so that the head and foot of the "panda" can rotate, and there are dark green bamboo lamps and panda lamps next to each other, which is really ingenious and vivid.

Next to the panda lantern is a 4-meter-high golden crab basket wood carving lantern, in which 26 crabs come to life, interspersed with aquatic plants and water splash textures, at first glance it seems to be a traditional wood carving. After reading the introduction below the modeling, Lan Eucalyptus knew that this crab basket lantern was made of paper. The inside of the crab basket is lit with light bulbs, and with the surrounding atmosphere lights, the whole lamp group presents a transparent and brilliant effect inside and outside, which is breathtaking.

"It's too exquisite!" A little girl with braids couldn't help but scream. Not really! The 100-meter-long row of screens with the theme of the Three Kingdoms in front of the little girl integrates coloring, painting, embroidery, and clay sculptures, and the characters are vivid and varied. Each screen and one lamp are based on the characters and stories in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as their main theme and content, with pavilions and pavilions, landscape gardens to form a screen of scenery, and then equipped with lights to set off. The scenery of the screen lamps and the costumes of the characters are closely related to sculpture and painting. Several of these figures, such as Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Diao Chan, Xiao Qiao, etc., also used silk, silk, gold and silver, and embroidery in their costumes. The colors are coordinated, quite aesthetic, and the principles of anatomy and perspective are also integrated. Screen lamps are divided into two categories: "hot lamp" and "plain lamp". "Heat lamps" are also called "war lamps"; "Plain lamp" is also known as "Wen lantern". Zhao Zilong's character modeling belongs to the former, and his posture is very exquisite; Zhuge Liang's character modeling belongs to the latter, and he focuses more on delicate expressions and movements. All the facial representations of the characters are depicted in the form of facial makeup, and the details are also drawn to pay attention to joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, good, evil, beauty and ugliness. Facebook is divided into four categories: raw, dan, ugly, and net. There are also civil and military students, civil and military veterans, as well as white-bearded civil and military veterans, two junior students, etc.; Ugly is the ducktail beard ugly, the flower drum ugly, the female ugly, the monk ugly, the fat ugly, the son ugly, the housekeeper ugly and the idler ugly, etc.; Dan has Wenwu Dan, short Dan, etc.; There are more than 40 kinds of "net". There are so many names that are more elaborate than stage performing arts!

Suddenly, the Liufang Street entrance was full of people, drum music, and the blue eucalyptus, who came to watch the lanterns almost every year, knew that it was the beginning of the lantern tour. Walking in the front of the team is the dragon lantern that dances up and down, the teeth and claws, followed by the gong and drum team that the citizens spontaneously organize and rehearse, a group of innocent and lovely children carry lanterns of different shapes under the leadership of adults, they have no shortage of hanging lamps of different shapes in their hands, there are round, square, plum, ridge, drum, hexagonal, octagonal, etc., as well as string lights, flower basket lights, lotus lights, unicorn lights, plum blossom lights, carp lights, horse lanterns, ceramic palace lights, fruit lamps, etc., most of them hold a lantern in one hand, The number of lanterns in the mighty procession reached hundreds. The materials of the lantern are very exquisite, with bamboo strips, wire frames, silk, silk as clothing and fabrics, and the inner surface is bright and transparent, which appears transparent and exquisite.

And the live lamp in the back team is even more ingenious, with a real person in costume placed between the lantern screens, with the real fake, through the light, looming in the hazy room, if it is about to leave, it is better than a fairyland, so that the viewer is like falling into the fog for five miles. These shapes are skillfully used in the production, and they are good at changing, forming a thousand strange characters. The lantern craftsmanship is meticulous and lifelike, and all the lanterns are the most colorful phoenix at the end. I saw the flowing gold like the "phoenix" with rattan, bamboo, wood and metal strips as the internal frame, covered with silk paper silk glass, and then painted with delicate patterns, the whole body inlaid with tassels, luodian, beads, copper sheets, extremely elegant and gorgeous.

At this time, the shops, courtyards, ancestral halls, etc. of the whole street are all lit up, and a large group of people called "Caizapu" inside and outside the door, Xiuxiu led the blue eucalyptus and squeezed into the crowd lively, and a row of small and exquisite gauze lamps reflected into Xiuxiu's eyes from the gap in the crowd. Xiuxiu couldn't help but widen her eyes to observe these wonderful gauze lights, and Lan Eucalyptus also squeezed forward: "Pretty, right?" Caizapu is a time-honored brand in Liufang Street, the yarn lantern is actually a pocket-sized lantern, you see these are generally only more than three inches, the highest is only one foot, but also use the "embroidery", "color", "cut", "embellishment" skills, such as this "flying" yarn lamp, the fold and wrinkle of the character's clothes is also very natural, right? Xiuxiu? Xiuxiu was overwhelmed by the yarn lantern at this time, and she didn't care about answering Lan Eucalyptus at all. Lan Eucalyptus was immediately amused by her, and she also watched it seriously, only to see that the gestures of "Feitian" were very dynamic in dance, and the rest of the gauze lanterns were also gorgeous, competing up and down.

"Eucalyptus, lo and behold—there's an old man here putting up a lantern!" Following Xiuxiu's gaze, a gray-haired old man was flexibly using his fingers to tie a lantern frame with bamboo chips. This craftsman has been running the "Caiza Shop" for 46 years, and his 19th generation ancestors were royal craftsmen of the court, and the founding year of the Caiza Shop dates back more than 400 years. Passed to him, the craft has undergone countless innovations, not only retaining the key skills of traditional craftsmanship, but also constantly absorbing embroidery, tailoring, clay sculpture and other handicrafts in appearance, in order to renovate the pattern of lantern shape.

Waves of people stopped at the door of the store, dozens of pairs of eyes staring at the old man's skillful hands. The hands have long been carved by time, full of rough wrinkles, but they are rare as if they are more flexible than machines. He is concentrating on tying bamboo pieces of the same size and thickness into a round frame, and then rolling the silk paper into strips into paper ropes, using the flexibility of the silk paper to tie into a firm joint. A finished lantern has to go through several processes of conception, embryonic piercing, mounting, decoration and assembly, and this handicraft has formed a unique folk art characteristics.

Lan Eucalyptus and Xiuxiu couldn't stop praising on the side, and there was a happy and peaceful atmosphere everywhere on Liufang Street, where people laughed and laughed, lingering and forgetting to return, and the city was drunk.