The Lantern Festival is coming soon, there are many kinds of lanterns on the street, and our village is the main dragon lantern. It is said that there was no dragon lantern for a long time before I was born.

One year, the village secretary of the village dreamed that there were two dragons playing at the entrance of the village, but they didn't take it seriously. In the summer of that year, there was a big flood, and the river at the entrance of the village rushed over with the flow of a lot of bamboo weaving things, the villagers were curious to pick it up, but they didn't expect to piece together the skeleton of two dragons, and the village party secretary remembered that strange dream, so everyone felt that this was the will of heaven, so they built the dragon lantern ancestral hall. Every Lantern Festival, I ask the hexagram, look at the hexagram to decide whether to come out of the dragon lantern.

I remember when I was a child, the dragon lantern was filled with candles from beginning to end, and the lanterns were knotted together to form the dragon lantern, although it was a candle, but no matter how it danced, it just wouldn't happen. The grandmother said that this is the power of the magic lamp, and now the dragon lantern has been replaced with an electrified one, although it saves a lot of trouble, but it lacks the magical taste of the past.

I pulled the thick ink to look at the light, he didn't say he was happy, but his eyes had betrayed him, he hadn't seen this, he had been following the old-fashioned old man who had never seen this. Although it is said that the dragon lantern is unique to our village, it is still necessary to protect the surrounding villages and streets, because you can't play all the people in one night, so it will be divided into several nights. The route to be taken every night is predetermined, send someone to greet first, and the account that wants to receive the lamp into the house will first light the door lamp or hang a lantern at the door, and the dragon lantern will start to come out from the ancestral hall, and the arranged route can just go around a circle and return to the ancestral hall.

We children are very curious, and in the afternoon we went to the ancestral hall with many children to see the enshrined dragon lantern, and thick ink also asked curiously: "Isn't it a magic lamp?" Can you come in too? "Mocking me again.

I raised my head proudly and said, "The snake and dragon are said to be one family when Pangu opened the world, I don't know this!" As for me, I can't enter any temple, but I've been here many times, and I've been in contact with the dragon lantern and it's fine. "It's my nonsense, but it's really the only reason that makes sense, I've been following the lamp since I was a child, and I've never had an accident, and nothing strange has happened, so let's just say it in a bullish way.

"It's a legend, it's not necessarily true, I don't think it's that simple." What else did he think?

"Whatever, it's okay anyway." I say proudly.

The pair of dragon lanterns in the ancestral hall are very long, anyway, much longer than me, they are placed on a few benches, and the dragon head is facing the door, they are really decorated lifelike, and their eyes are bright, and they are particularly domineering. There is still incense in front of the faucet, but the candle in the skeleton has not yet been lit.

We watched it for a while in the afternoon, and then went again in the evening when the lights were almost out. At that time, when I went to the ancestral hall, it was already full of people on the inside and outside of the three layers, and I and the thick ink drilled in the cracks of the people, and finally got in, the candles in the dragon lantern had been lit, and there was fire in the eyes, which was particularly beautiful, and the people who specialized in playing the dragon lantern were ready, and the dragon lantern dancer had lifted the bracket, and the people who were lighting the lamp, beating the gongs and drums, putting the notice guns, and preparing to collect cigarettes and red cloths were all ready, and we all began to get excited.

First the notice outside the gun sounded, then the gongs and drums and tribute collectors went out, and when the drums, gongs and firecrackers sounded outside, the dragon lantern started. We cheered and followed out of the ancestral hall, and the people on the road automatically gave way to a way, and not far from the entrance of the ancestral hall, a fire had been lit. Why did the dragon lantern step over? I don't understand here, we followed behind and stepped over the fire. There are two kinds of lanterns, one is representative, holding a clan lantern and following behind, and the other is an unorganized like us. There are not many people in the clan and the lamp, and there are more people who are unorganized, and the randomness is also large, you can retreat at any time, you can also join at any time, and the team grows all the way along the way, and there are many people from other places who will come to see the style of the dragon lantern, and there will be a lot of passing vehicles on the road to stop and watch, and it is very lively.

Generally, it is the turn of the residents on the lantern line that night, and there are very few adults who come to follow the lanterns, because they have to prepare things at home to receive them. When I was very young, my uncle brought me to follow the lantern, and my uncle lovingly put me on his shoulder, pulled my little feet, supported my back, and watched the dragon lantern in the crowd. The reason is that on the one hand, it is very chaotic when looking at the lights, and the children are not at ease below, and the other is that the line of sight is not obstructed at all, so many extra-small children are taken by their families to watch the lights like this, and when they grow up, they can run together by themselves.

When the dragon lantern walked on the road, the gun holder in front of him had already let go of the gun in a certain house, so the lantern guide and the tribute collector also arrived one after another, and the residents knew that the dragon lantern was coming, and enthusiastically took out the fruit bowl and fragrant tea to greet the guests, and then offered tribute: cigarettes and red cloth, and quickly put firecrackers in front of the door to welcome the dragon lantern. The dragon lantern stops at the door, with the sound of firecrackers and all kinds of music danced by the people, then the gun shooter and the lantern guide will continue to go to the next house, and this side is dancing to the fullest, if the house is big enough, will also go into the house to play a game, then the adults will say to the children: "Go and drill the dragon's belly, drill good luck!" "The children scrambled to drill, and I also pulled the thick ink to drill together, and the cold face of the thick ink was finally red, and the eyes were shining. After dancing for a while, the family will light the firecrackers again. The town was the most lively when it played with dragon lanterns last year, and there were more firecrackers and fireworks released at night than during the New Year, and the most beautiful fireworks I have ever seen were during the Lantern Festival.

This dragon lantern is very effective, and it must be accurate to ask God for hexagrams. Everyone is still quite cautious about this matter, and no one wants anything to happen. The route runs from the village to the streets. The streets are already full of people, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as crowded. All the way along the street to play to a door, this family is our rich here, especially rich, the family is running a bus station in the town, the dragon lantern has not passed, their family lit firecrackers, how to light can not be lit, I and thick ink followed the dragon lantern, the firecrackers are hung vertically on the pillar, hung for a long time and dragged to the ground is still very long, from the door to the road has been dragged to the road. I looked at it and was anxious, the dragon lantern was about to pass, and I couldn't light the firecrackers and temporarily replaced the hanging firecrackers, and then lit them, but still couldn't light them, this is not a good omen, if the magic lamp is on fire, it will be unfortunate. In the end, the man took out a box of firecrackers from inside and prepared to apologize to the magic lamp, but the magic lamp had already arrived, and there was still no firecracker that could be lit, and the family was in a hurry, and the whole audience was very quiet at this time, even the sound of gongs and drums stopped.

I tugged at the sleeve of my coat and whispered, "What's going on?" ”

"Don't meddle with things. "I nunu mouth, suddenly the dragon lantern next to me emitted a chaotic light, I fell to the ground in fright, I sat on the ground, my hands fumbled back, my ass moved back.

Thick Ink hurriedly came to pull me, "Why are you so careless?" Hurry up, everybody's watching you. ”

I pointed to the pair of dragon lanterns and said, "Look, look at the dragon lanterns!" The light on the dragon lantern separated into two lights, one yellow and one white, which were in the form of a dragon, intersecting and intertwining and flying out of the lamp in the direction of the village. My eyes widened, if there was anything to describe it now, it was incredible! I saw a real dragon!

"What's wrong with the dragon lantern? Don't talk nonsense! "Thick ink came to pull me again.

The people around were already discussing, "This little girl is so disrespectful, so rude to the magic lamp!" ”

"Whose child?"

Didn't you see it? Didn't see the thick ink? The real dragon is gone, so ......

"Look! The dragon lamp is on fire! It's burning! The dragon lantern has appeared! "Before I could react, I was dragged back by the thick ink for a distance, the dragon lantern in front of me had been scattered, everyone was so frightened that they ran away, the child cried, the woman screamed, the man scolded, it became a pot of porridge, I was almost stepped on, fortunately, the thick ink has been dragging me up and running, is this family going to be unlucky? The magic lamp is not willing to bless them?

Back in the village, Nongmo and I informed my uncle and grandmother respectively, and when I saw that my grandmother was making fragrant tea, I said breathlessly: "Grandma, something happened to the dragon lantern!" ”

As soon as the grandmother covered the pot, "Bah, baba, hurry up and spit, children can't say such unlucky things." ”

I was anxious when I heard it, "It's true!" The dragon lamp burned! You don't have to make fragrant tea, the lamp can't be played! ”

The grandmother was shocked, "How is this possible!" The magic lamp has never burned! Now something big is going to happen! ”

When I heard this, I almost cried, "What's the big deal?" Is it flooded? Don't! If the dragon doesn't bless us, what will we do? ”

The grandmother touched my ear and said, "First of all, tell the grandmother, what happened to the magic lamp?" ”

"The restaurant next door, what's that called? Their family is very rich, what is it called? "I'm anxious to scratch my hair, it's like this in a hurry, whether it's doing things or exams since I was a child, I'm incoherent when I'm in a hurry, and the exams always go wrong." That ...... Bus stop! Very rich...... That guy is so fat, so fat......"

"You mean the Zhao family passenger transport?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" I nodded like garlic, but I was dying! At first, the firecrackers didn't go off, and then ......, "I saw the real dragon...... This can't be said, let's not say whether it's good or bad to see it, and the grandmother should be worried when she knows it. "Then I accidentally fell, and those two dragons ...... The two dragon lanterns burned. ”

The grandmother went to put out the stove, "That should be the Zhao family's business!" The manifestation of the magic lamp is either an omen or something wrong with the Zhao family. "So it's either going to happen or it's already happening......