Yuanxiao in my hometown is a reminiscence essay by Wang Zengqi. The author takes "lights" as a clue, and then describes all kinds of lights during the Lantern Festival.
This paper describes a series of various folk festivals in the hometown of Lantern Festival, which creates a happy holiday atmosphere for us, from which we can appreciate the rich life interest and happy atmosphere of Wang Zengqi's prose, and show the nature and pure beauty of the countryside.
It is not difficult to see from the works that a wanderer who has been wandering in a foreign land for a long time is attached to the local culture and the author loves his hometown. At the same time, he also felt the author's regret for the past year.
About the author:
Wang Zengqi, 1920 was born in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province on March 5th, and he is a contemporary writer, essayist, dramatist and representative of Beijing School writers in China. Known as "lyrical humanist, the last pure scholar in China and the last scholar-bureaucrat in China." Wang Zengqi has made great achievements in the creation of short stories, and has also made in-depth research on drama and folk literature and art.
Excerpt from the original:
We don't usually call it Lantern Festival there, it's called Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival will last for several days, with lights turned on at 13 o'clock and lights turned off at 17 o'clock. "Zhengri" is the fifteenth.
The lights in all the rooms are on. There are four square glass lamps in aunt's room. In the second mother's room, there is a red birthday glass lamp and a pearl lamp. My stepmother lit a red glazed light bulb in her room. A room full of lights, bright and gentle, looks very auspicious.
Go to the streets to watch lanterns. Lian Wanshun's lanterns are very big. "Country people don't know how to play lanterns-here we go again." Lanterns are just shadows of cars, horses and people (soldiers) turning around, but you can also watch them turn several times. Later, I made one myself, lit a candle, and watched the paper inside turn around, and the shadow was reflected on the paper curtain outside. I was very happy.
The lanterns of the Ganlong River will not "walk", but a rectangular paper box with some colorful figures painted on the front white paper. The villain is attached to a hair, and the candle burns it, so the villain's hands and feet will move up and down. Although it doesn't walk, we still call it a lantern. Otherwise, what should we call it? The villains outside are Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand. The whole picture shows the journey to the west by Tang Priest.