Chapter 9 Enter the city to enjoy the lights 2

This Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China. Naturally, you have to play with the lights and enjoy the lanterns. The custom of enjoying lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival was mostly concentrated in the south. Therefore, although people all over the country will enjoy lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival, if you want to talk about which side of the lanterns on the north and south sides are beautiful, it is naturally the lanterns in the south. After all, the north will spend more time thinking about ice lanterns.

The fish had heard about this for a long time, but when she saw this dazzling and colorful lanterns with her own eyes, she couldn't help admiring! A pair of eyes kept turning, aiming at the lanterns hanging on the long street, and I couldn't wait to take off the most beautiful one in my hand...

The more the fish and his party go in the most lively direction, the more colorful and dazzling the lanterns hanging on both sides - there are colorful lamps, sesame lamps, eggshell lamps, particle lanterns, straw lamps, fish scale lamps, grain shell lamps, melon seed lamps and bird and animal flower tree lamps.

Fish know that in Guangzhou, southern Fujian and other places, the Mid-Autumn Festival activities will be carried out on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. This "tree" is also "vertical", which means that the lights are erected high, which is also another pleasure for children on the Mid-Autumn Festival night.

Therefore, the fish and his party walked with the crowd for a while, and the fish saw many children, with the help of their parents, tie them into rabbit lamps, carambola lamps or square lamps with bamboo paper, first hung horizontally in the short pole, then erected on the high pole, and then raised them high to shine brightly, adding another scenery to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Whether it is children in the city or in the countryside, they like to compete with each other at this time. Along the way, the fish saw many children holding lamps vigorously and competing with each other, which is the highest and most exquisite than whose lamp is the most exquisite.

In addition to making children play with various lanterns with paper and bamboo, many adults will also make simple sleeve lanterns, pumpkin lanterns, orange lanterns, etc. for children to play. The most popular among children in southern Fujian is the "grapefruit lamp". The so-called grapefruit lamp is to hollow out the inside of the grapefruit, then carve a simple hollow pattern on the outer skin, and finally put on a rope and light a candle inside the grapefruit.

Pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns similar to grapefruit lanterns are also made by taking out the cup. Although such lamps are very simple and simple, they are better at making simple, elegant and without much money. Such lamps are very popular with children who are not very rich, and some children will float grapefruit lamps into the pool and river to play.

In addition, some adults will take their children to put skylights in empty places. The so-called "sky lantern" is "Kongming lantern", which is also a very interesting and popular game for children during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This Kongming lantern is also very simple to make. Many families will use bamboo paper to paste headlights a few days in advance as early as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The person who pastes the lamp will paste the top and surroundings of the headlight, leaving only an opening at the bottom, and then put grease-soaked rags, cotton wool, or a thick candle on the horizontal pole of the lamp... Such a simple Kongming lamp is made.

After the Kongming lamp is made, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the big guys will go to the empty place and use two benches to cushion their feet. Four people stand on the bench and pinch the four corners of the Kongming lamp, and the others will carefully lift the bottom frame of the Kongming lamp.

After everything was ready, a person slowly lit the things placed in the lamp, taking advantage of the burning heat and thick smoke to make Kong Ming lamp slowly expand, and finally became high * swollen and ready to fly, looking like a person pinched in his hand but Birds that spread their wings and want to fly and want to return to the vast sky.

And this Kongming lantern is a thing that only people in the city play with, so Li Erniu and others's faces are full of surprise when they see Kongming lantern flying in mid-air, as long as the fish still keeps calm.

The fish had played Kongming lantern several times in his previous life, so he smiled and explained the story related to Kongming lantern to Li Erniu, and told Li Erniu that they actually had to pay attention to skills to release Kongming lanterns - they must wait for the whole Kongming lantern to be full of smoke and become round and drum before letting go. At that time, let go of Kong Ming The lamp will rise slowly, and finally float to a certain height with the wind, compete with the bright moon, causing people to watch, laugh and chase...

And the fish also went to the city to enjoy the lights during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they couldn't take their eyes off and didn't want to miss the beautiful scenery in front of them. Of course, after seeing these lanterns, the fish will subconsciously compare them with modern lanterns...

After several comparisons, Yuer soon found that although these lanterns are not like modern lanterns and can make the lights brighter and more dazzling by electricity, the craftsmanship and ingenious design of these lanterns are far from comparable to modern lanterns. Even the fish, a time traveler, can only sigh and admire when he sees them. Son!

The fish and his party watched the lanterns along the street for a while. Li Erniu, who was walking in the front, began to be a little absent-minded, and her eyes no longer stopped on those dazzling and colorful lanterns, but began to look around as if they were looking for something.

Soon Li Erniu's eyes lit up, took the fish's hand and said, " fish, look! There is a small temple there. Let's go in and have a look!"

When the fish heard the words, she looked in the direction pointed by Li Erniu and saw that there was indeed a small but crowded temple not far away. However, Yuer felt that it was not the time to burn incense and worship Buddha in the temple, so she frowned and said to Li Erniu, "Erni, when can't you go to see the small temple? At present, we should enjoy the autumn lantern that we only look forward to this year. We should not go to the small temple to join in the fun.

Li Erniu was still a little absent-minded after listening to Yuer's words. While her eyes floated to the small temple, she hurriedly said annoy Yuer: "Ouch! Fish, you really don't know anything! Don't you know that people in the city come to the temple to listen to incense every August 15th?

The fish really didn't know that the city people had such a rule, and she didn't know what this "listening to incense" was doing, so she could only look at Li Erniu with a pair of innocent eyes, and her face was also full of eagerness for Li Erniu's answer.

Li Erniu first glanced at the little bolt, Yang Liulang and other kids uneasily when she heard the words, and then mysteriously pulled the fish and Ma Siniang aside and lowered her voice and said, "What I said before about the fun things in the city are listening to incense! This sounds amazing..."

It was not until Li Erniu mysteriously explained that the fish knew that the people in southern Fujian for thousands of years had the unique custom of "listening to the fragrance" on the Mid-Autumn Festival and in the middle of the night.

This so-called "listening to incense" is actually the people who go to the temple at night of the Mid-Autumn Festival to burn incense and pray to the "god" with their own thoughts. After burning incense and praying, the people must hold the incense and go to the noisy place of the crowd and listen to the first words.

The first sentence will be firmly remembered by the people who listen to the incense. Finally, based on this sentence, please calculate and answer the major events in the temple. As soon as Yuer listened to Li Erniu's words, she deeply felt that this "listening fragrance" and "word measurement" had similarities, which were the result of judging the meaning contained in a certain sentence or paragraph.

As soon as the fish understands the unique custom of listening to incense in southern Fujian, they understand that this "listening to incense" is superstitious, but the fish also knows that "listening to incense" is actually a spiritual sustenance of the people in southern Fujian who miss their relatives. After all, there are many men in southern Fujian who have crossed the sea to make a living overseas, and there will always be some families that are difficult to reunite and get together during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

As the saying goes, "I miss my relatives every festive season", so slowly there are such rumors in southern Fujian - it is rumored that every Mid-Autumn Festival and in the dead of night, the mother or wife and children left behind in their hometown will light three sticks of incense, hide in the alleys and walls to listen to what passers-by say, and then distinguish them carefully according to the words. When will your relatives write to you, whether you are healthy or not, etc., to comfort your loved ones.

Of course, there are also many young and little ladies in Huaichun who will ask themselves about their future marriage by listening to incense, and the first sentence they hear by holding incense to ask themselves if they can stay together for a lifetime, or when Bu Ruyi Langjun will appear, etc.

Therefore, after listening to Li Erniu's introduction of the custom of listening to incense, and seeing Li Erniu's absent-minded look, he guessed that he usually looked at Li Erniu, who was careless, and began to think about it in his heart. He even concluded that Li Erniu did not look at the beautiful lanterns and insisted on shoving into the small temple. I want to listen to incense to ask about the good fate in the future...

Since Li Erniu is thinking about this matter, the fish will complete her.

Therefore, Yuer quickly smiled at Li Erniu, and then turned around and said to Yang Liulang and Xiao Shuanzi, "We can't see a lot of this lamp. Why don't we go to the small temple together? After shopping, go out to look at the lights elsewhere, so as not to feel a little boring to look at the lights all the time.

When Yang Liulang and Xiao Shuanzi heard Yuer's words, they unexpectedly became a little unnatural together and agreed to Yuer's proposal in one bite. This made the fish guess that they must have known the custom of "listening to incense" early in the morning, and they also wanted to ask questions by listening to incense, otherwise they would not have responded quickly without asking a word.

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