Chapter 9: Interesting Facts about the Lantern Festival

Because Wang Xiaoyuan is a senior in high school, the study time is relatively tight, so he will start school on the seventh day of the first month, and Wang Xuechen is the director of the third grade of high school, so he needs to go to school on the sixth year of junior high school. And Murong Ce and they were far away, and after Liu Juexin's advice, he and his son also embarked on the journey back to Jinling on the fifth day of the new year. Wang Xuechen arrived at home at ten o'clock in the morning on the sixth day of junior high school, cleaned up briefly, had lunch, and waited for Murong Ce to go to school together.

Murong Ce arrived at home at nine o'clock at noon on the sixth day of junior high school, cleaned up after returning home, made up for a while, and went to the school with Wang Xuechen to attend the third-grade teachers' meeting after lunch. Arranged the teaching progress of the emphasis on the 19th of the first month, the first model of the examination questions, which is the most important thing of this meeting; Then they broke up and prepared to go. The 14th day of the first month of the third year of high school is closed and the 17th day of school begins.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, this night Wang Xuechen and Murong Ce's two families went out together to go to the Confucius Temple to see the Lantern Festival, this year's Lantern Festival can be described as unprecedented, and I regretted it a little after I came, because everyone and everyone were everywhere I saw, let us follow Wang Chuhan and Murong Han's eyes to appreciate the grand occasion of the Jinling Lantern Festival.

At around 4 p.m., the flow of people at the Confucius Temple subway station gradually entered the peak, and at the southeast gate of Confucius Temple on Pingjiangfu Road, the queue of tourists can be described by an idiom: "dense".

From the exit of the subway to the front of the ancient Qinhuai archway, the team is like a giant "swimming dragon" swimming slowly and leisurely, which makes people anxious.

What is Lantern Festival? Yuan, for the beginning, for the night, for the night.

There is a beginning, and there is hope for the renewal of Vientiane; There is a night, so that the fire tree and silver flowers will not sleep.

Murong Han and Wang Chuhan held hands in the Confucius Temple scenic area and saw that many tourists sat on roadside benches and sat quietly for several hours, waiting until night fell and the time of lighting came.

Those tourists who arrive early, but can't sit still, check in at well-known places such as Qinhuai Theater, Jiangnan Gongyuan, and major food streets, which are so lively.

Some of them entered the Xiaolongmen Food Street and it was a meal. Wang Chuhan, who saw it, was drooling, and then pulled Wang Xiaoyuan and Murong Han and the three of them into the food street is a meal, like what duck blood vermicelli, Tang character stinky tofu, Huang Qinji cold noodles, Gucheng Lake crab roe buns and bean paste buns, seeing the delicious Wang Chuhan always has to buy one, and she can eat it at first.

Later, he gave his brother Wang Xiaoyuan a bite to eat, and some also gave Murong Han to let him eat, and when they saw the roast chicken, Wang Xiaoyuan and Murong Han stopped Wang Chuhan, because the two of them were also a little unbearable, Wang Chuhan saw that he gave up and did not continue to buy food.

Seeing her reluctant expression, he hurriedly took her away.

At almost 6 o'clock in the evening, the scenic spot began to be lit up, and the tourists gradually began to gather, waiting for the highlight moment of tonight. Wang Xuechen and Murong Ce's families gathered together to welcome the moment of the lights.

Slowly, all kinds of lanterns hanging on the trees, restaurants and archways were all lit up, and the giant lotus flowers in front of the "Tianxia Hub" were dazzling, attracting tourists to check in and take pictures, and the indispensable Wang Chuhan got up again.

Wang Chuhan saw that some children who were not tall enough, sat on their father's shoulders, turned around to look at their fathers and looked at other people's fathers, Wang Xuechen was also speechless for a while when he saw this moment, helplessly, who let himself be a daughter slave, what other people's children have, we have to have it in our own family, and Murong Ce looked at each other and smiled, then squatted down and picked up Wang Chuhan and let her sit on his shoulder.

For people who do not live in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the Confucius Temple is high and low, the river hall and river house with white walls and tiles, and the song tower and dance pavilion are all novel and attractive existences. And for the old Jinling people, it is still the same thing.

Murong Ce saw the Zhuangyuan Post Pavilion and Wende Bridge, and then looked at the vermilion lacquer painting boat and Shili Qingbo under the wall of Shuanglong, and said with emotion:

"For example, Wei Zhuang's 'everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists only meet the old in Jiangnan' and 'who knows that Jiangnan is not drunk, smiling and watching the spring breeze and ten miles of fragrance', it is really a good scenery in Jiangnan"

"The Qinhuai Lantern Festival, also known as the Jinling Lantern Festival and the Confucius Temple Lantern Festival, is a folk cultural activity spread in the Jinling area, mainly held during the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival every year."

It is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, with the reputation of "the world's first lantern festival" and "Qinhuai lantern color armor in the world", is the only large-scale comprehensive lantern festival in China that integrates lantern exhibitions, lantern festivals and lantern markets, and is also the largest folk lantern festival in China. Murong Ce explained as he walked.

Dozens of lantern stalls are lively, rabbit lanterns, lotus lanterns, peacock lanterns, flower basket lights, carp lanterns, Chang'e lanterns, ······ Visitors hold delicate lanterns in their hands and smile.

Looking at these lanterns, Wang Chuhan came down and bought a rabbit lantern to walk on the road, each of the two families had a lantern, and then asked the staff to help us take a photo. Jacquard lantern, never night long street".

The glittering Confucius Temple scenic spot, compared with the previous three years, is a little more shining.

Looking at this huge flow of people, you can understand why you need to make an appointment in advance to enjoy the lanterns, volunteers and armed police officers need to maintain order, and you need to create a one-way tour channel. There are just too many people.

They saw that at the crossings leading to the Confucius Temple, more than 10 judicial and administrative officers were selected to join the volunteer team to guide the flow of passengers, guide tourists to watch the lanterns in an orderly manner, answer questions for the majority of tourists, and help middle-aged and elderly tourists to make online reservations.

In front of the Dacheng Hall and next to the Wende Bridge, the officers and soldiers on duty of the Jinling Detachment of the Armed Police stood in a row, holding the belts of their comrades-in-arms tightly with both hands, and using their bodies to form a barrier so that the crowd could flow in an orderly manner.

The "human wall" composed of the people's children and soldiers has become a beautiful scenery for the Qinhuai Lantern Festival, and tourists have taken pictures.

Regards, loveliest people.

Stayed until ten o'clock at night, the tourists began to leave, Wang Chuhan and Murong Han went out to find a place to eat supper before going home to rest, on the way Wang Chuhan said with a tired face:

"I'm so tired, but there's a lot of delicious food in it, and it's really worth it this trip."

"Who said that I regretted it before, it seems to be you, sister, look at this day, you are about to become a fat man, your trip is really worth it, I am miserable, the New Year's money and pocket money have been spent by you" This is Wang Xiaoyuan thought about it and interjected.

"I said brother, you said that you said this about your sister, you are still not your own brother, and besides, you dare to say that you didn't eat a bite of the food I bought? Dad, look at my brother" Wang Chuhan said to Wang Xiaoyuan a little speechless at first, and then said to Wang Xuechen a little coquettishly.

"I beat him, okay, if you are an elder brother, you should let your sister go" Wang Xuechen said to Wang Chuhan in a doting tone, and then said to Wang Xiaoyuan.

At this time, everyone looked at each other and laughed, Wang Chuhan glared at Murong Han, Murong Han immediately stopped laughing, and the others laughed loudly again when they saw this. Wang Xiaoyuan glanced at Murong Han intentionally or unintentionally, and then the two families went home to rest together.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, at noon on this day, the two families had a reunion dinner together (only Liu Juexin was missing), and at the end of the day, Wang Xuechen asked Wang Chuhan to write a garden experience, which suddenly made Wang Chuhan's interest fall from the climax to the trough and came directly to a roller coaster, Murong Ce saw this and thought about it and said to Murong Han:

"Son, since your Uncle Wang has assigned this homework to your sister Chu Han, you see that you are in the same class, how can you let the girls write alone, you should also write a garden impression."

"Dad, this is not good," Murong Han said to Murong Ce with some pity.

"Uncle Murong is so good, someone is with me now," Wang Chuhan said with some joy.

"Dad, this ......" Before Murong Han finished speaking, he saw Wang Chuhan glaring at him, and then Murong Han said with some grievances:

"Okay"

Then Wang Chuhan happily went back to write an additional composition, everyone looked at Murong Han and chuckled again, and Murong Han also went back to the room to write an essay.

It's time for school to start again, and after half a year of adaptation, Murong Han and Wang Chuhan were also sent to school by their parents and started the campus life of living in the school.

As the first day of school in the New Year, there is no one who is sent to the school by their parents to live in the school, is it afraid that they will eat all the delicious food brought from their hometown in the New Year? Haha, I'm afraid that only Wang Chuhan, who is a foodie, will think so, no matter what he thinks, he was finally sent to school by his parents, after breakfast on the seventeenth day of the first month, the children were sent to school by their parents one after another, whether it was the first grade or the sixth grade, the children all lived in the school.

Of course, except for a few parents who spoil their children, they will eventually regret their doting, including a pair of brothers and sisters named Li Anyi and Li Manya, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the rich second generation, their father Li Zhixiong is fifty years old this year, which can be described as an old man. Originally a young man from the countryside, he later went out to work and broke out of the world, opened a real estate company, called the New Era Real Estate Company, and registered the company when he was thirty-five years old, but he didn't expect his company to become a typical enterprise in the city more than ten years later.

And his wife Yun Feifei is a few years older than him, she is the second largest shareholder of their company's board of directors, because of the coquettish indulgence on weekdays, divorced twice and has not been married yet, when Li Zhixiong was forty-two years old, because Yun Feifei often went to the company to send lunch to her father, he met and fell in love with Li Zhixiong as the boss, and finally two years later, they entered the palace of marriage with a difference of seven years.

The couple and their husband and wife are pampered to their children in every way, everything is the best, they can't see the rural people clearly, and once again when Li Manya was three years old, they went to the scenic spot to play, and happened to meet the elderly tour group organized by the township that also came to play, because it was the tourist season, there were a lot of people, so an old man accidentally bumped into Li Manya, and as a result, Yun Feifei did not relentlessly count at the old man, saying what hillbilly, I have never seen the world or anything, In the end, it was concluded under the persuasion of the staff of the scenic spot and Li Zhixiong, it may be that Li Zhixiong remembered his late parents when he saw these old people, so he participated in the persuasion, and when he left, he vaguely heard Yun Feifei talking about something.

And the old man's face was flushed, and he calmed down under the comfort of the tour guide and his companions, and this incident left a shadow in the old man's heart, causing the old man to never travel until he died.

Since then, Li Manya has also begun to be arrogant, and the seed of solipsism in her heart began to sprout for the first time, fortunately, her brother is more rational and knowledgeable, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no successor to their family.