It's another year of Lantern Festival. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people not only have to eat Lantern Festival and set off fireworks, but also go out to enjoy the lanterns. Many children will carefully select auspicious lanterns and hang them at home or carry them in their hands to stroll through the streets and alleys. The gorgeous and colorful lanterns complement each other, presenting a moving picture of the night like a picture, the lights like the sea, and the people like the tide. It is really dazzling, and it pushes the joyful and peaceful atmosphere of the Spring Festival to a climax.
The lantern is a unique symbol in traditional Chinese culture, carrying people's yearning for a better life and inheriting the cultural genes of the Chinese nation. Chaozhou lantern is a major school of folk lantern art in China, which has always been popular, and the lantern has also become a traditional handicraft that Chaozhou folk like to see. In the traditional repertoire of Teochew opera "The Story of Lijing", there is a singing phrase of "three streets and six alleys are good lanterns", which proves the prosperity of Chaozhou lanterns. Chaoshan lanterns are divided into two categories: hanging lamps and screen lights, hanging lamps are made of bamboo strips, lead wires, wooden slats, etc. as raw materials, and are made into various lamp color skeletons, pasted on white paper, gauze silk, and then painted on them, and there are round lanterns, palace lamps and fruit lamps, fish lamps, horse lanterns, double happiness lamps and other animals, all kinds of fruit melons and other lights. The screen lamp is a kind of comprehensive modeling lamp screen integrating color tie, painting, embroidery, clay sculpture and cutting, which takes opera and historical figures and stories as the main performance theme, with pavilions, landscape gardens, animal images, etc., to make a screen of scenery, and then assemble lights to set off. With the development of science and technology, there are many styles of lanterns, which are novel and unique. On the basis of retaining the national style, aesthetic taste and paste, paper-cutting skills, the fusion of all kinds of light and sound as a whole, so that the ancient lantern art glows with new shine.
Our country has the traditional custom of "ten ** New Year's Eve is not finished", "the first month comes to the first month, and the red light is hung on the fifteenth day of the first month". During the annual Lantern Festival, when night falls, lanterns of different shapes light up every corner of the city, illuminating thousands of households, and under the background of fireworks, it seems that the entire night sky is dyed with colorful colors. The lantern is not only a lighting tool, but also a symbol of people's hope and prayer for peace, like a painting of sound and color, a witty poem, a vivid story, continuing a beautiful and warm memory, a joy of universal celebration.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the rejuvenation, the bright moon in the sky, big and round, and thousands of lanterns on the ground, like shining stars scattered on the earth. As the saying goes: the lights in front of the door are prosperous, and the back hall is not prosperous. The light of the lanterns is warm and soft, and under the reflection of the lanterns, people's faces are filled with happy smiles, and their hearts are filled with beautiful hopes for the future, as if they have been so bright for thousands of years.
Note: The ** in the link was previously taken at the lantern exhibition on the side of the Guangji Gate Tower in Chaozhou City. At the beginning of the lanterns, the inside and outside of Guangji Building are like weaving, bustling. On both sides of the city gate, while decorated with traditional lanterns, it also integrates phantom, strobe, laser and other scientific and technological expressions, and the theme lights such as "Fuyun Tiger Roaring New Tide Year", "Fengqi Chaozhou", "Tiger Shengwei" and "Tide People and Tide Art" flash in turn, bringing people the ultimate visual experience.