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Comes with a beautiful short article: "Lights" (Xiaoxiao)

Once the black and oily kerosene lamp is lit by a match, it has a bright and flickering "life".

The meaning of "life" is that it reminds you of the time you spent with it. The simplest meaning of life can be one word: "move"! The tongue of fire of the dim kerosene lamp flickered like that, teased your eyes like that, and flashed the ancient dusk like that.

In Chaoxing Village, such kerosene lamps have lived with us for many years, and when we were young, we called it "Fanzi oil lamps". Fanzi oil, like Fanzai fire (matches), is passed down by foreigners. The smell of Fanzi oil is choking and unpleasant, and the oil is usually placed in an inconspicuous place in the corner of the wall, and the kerosene lamp is only proposed to be added when there is a shortage of oil, and it is cautious, on the one hand, it is afraid of staining the clothes and tables, and on the other hand, it is afraid that the flammable kerosene will attract Zhurong to wreak havoc and return to Lu arrogant (1).

The main body of the household kerosene lamp is a glass bottle about ten centimeters high, with an aluminum sheet as a sleeve on the periphery, the bottle mouth is a lead cover, a small hole is drilled in the middle, and the wick twisted into cotton yarn is inserted in this hole, the wick can be stretched all the way to the bottom of the bottle, and the kerosene is sucked up.

Late at night, in the face of such a flickering lamp, it seems that you can talk to the ancients, read a little poetry, Yaxing followed, if you can read a few "chats", maybe add some ancient fun, but unfortunately, at that time, I was young, I only knew Li Bai's iron pestle, the lotus of the crown!

The warmest thing is, of course, not the flickering and dim light, but the two opposite figures under the light, one old and one young, the grandparents and grandchildren from the "initial quiet", keeping the night deeper, guarding the eternal night, guarding the lights, guarding a long period of affectionate memories of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, that is the grandmother's uncomplaining love, endless heart, all the nostalgia from such a warm picture into, flooding......

When the wick burns black, we use a small piece of bamboo to light it, and the night battle of the lamp turns out to be like this! That scene is like cutting the candle in the west window, the wick burns longer and longer, and we have to use small scissors to cut off the small section of carbonization, and the light is even brighter!

The flame of the kerosene lamp can easily blacken the walls and beams, so the hanging place is always fixed in one place, and it is not changed casually, so as not to leave black oil smoke everywhere in the house.

There are only three kerosene lamps in our house, and when we are in the living room, the lamp follows us in the living room, and if it is in my grandmother's room at night, the lamp goes with me. Sometimes, when you are halfway through a book, you have to go to the living room to get something, and you have to carry the lamp with you, and you can't be too hasty, so as not to blow out the lamp by the wind of walking. I don't know if you remember that our house is a soil house (2)? The wind can come and go at will from between the broken bamboo strips at any time, and when the wind is strong, we have to hold the lamp with one hand and shelter the wind and fire with the other, step by step, as if the person who is in the depths of the thin walk, trembling.

It was as if the family property was being protected for generations.

Under that kind of light, everything is rippling and warm.

Although the effective brightness of the kerosene lamp is only one or two feet, that halo is an eternal flame that has always been lit in the hearts of childhood.

How many winds and clouds have blown past, we have grown up, the installation of electric lights at home, at the beginning, we only need five-candle light bulbs, the brightness of five candles just simulates the ancient meaning of kerosene lamps, but it is exempt from the smoke of fumigation, the flicker of the wind, so firm and restrained five-candle light bulbs, is the first step for us to use "electric fire".

Since then, the forty candle light, sixty candlelight bulbs have accompanied us to grow, as soon as the fluorescent lamp arrives, the yellow light has since become white light, and it has taken a step forward, at this time, the grandmother who accompanied the reading has already returned to the sky, and under the miserable white fluorescent lamp, I always feel that the warmth of the past is missing, and I always feel that the voice of the cold and warm around me has fallen silent, and I am sad to write under the good light.

The ensuing art lamps and neon lights will decorate our homes and our cities more beautifully, and the dazzling and flashing lights have added some enchantment, and every home, every place where everyone enters and exits, have installed countless and strange lights, and the city and countryside after nightfall are more novel and dazzling than during the day.

Once, I looked at Taipei from Huagang, which of the thousands of lights was turned on for me?

Forty years later, from the flickering kerosene lamp, we have come to a whole new world, sitting at the table that emphasizes the love of the eye, if my grandmother is still there, what kind of situation would it be? I often have a strange idea, on a night with ten thousand lights, to accompany my grandmother to quietly enjoy these colorful lights and shadows!

I can't say why I like kerosene lamps, but I know what lights mean in my heart.