The ancients called the night "night", and the first full moon night of the new year, the Yuan Night, is the "Lantern Festival". In the south, the Lantern Festival is celebrated, and the soup balls are eaten to announce the end of the Spring Festival feast.
People are diligent and spring comes early. In Baoshan, the Lantern Festival, eating glutinous rice balls, and catching up with the millennium "plough and rake meeting", the festival, the temple fair, and the preparation for spring ploughing are the same.
Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and the first day of February, two temple fairs are held on the slope of Ailao Temple in Daguanmiao Village, Hetu Town. In the old days, it was mainly used to sell agricultural production tools such as ploughs, rakes, hoes, and baskets, so it was called "plough and rake society", or "lamenting plough and rake society".
Now, the plough rake temple will rush from the hillside to the foot of the mountain, and the popularity is just as explosive. The streets are crowded with men, women and children, and there are a lot of people. The goods are dazzling, the production of farm tools and department stores are complete, there are all kinds of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty fragrances, and there is no shortage that cannot be bought.
They all came empty-handed and returned with their shoulders.
Everyone rushed to the streets hungry and drank to their fill.
People are crowded from person to person, lively and lively, sweating, feet are sore, and people are tired of shopping.
The peace table of the Ailao Temple was on, the incense and paper were burned, the lot was drawn, the head was kowtowed, and the wish was ......
The plough was bought, the hoe was bought, the dung basket was bought, the basket was bought, the sieve was bought, the retort was bought, the mortar was bought, the salt stick hammer was bought, the bamboo basket was bought, the broom was bought, the brush was bought, the wooden chopping board was bought, ...... was bought
Chicken bone candy was bought, walnut candy was bought, gourd was bought, rhubarb lotus root was bought, golden wheat (corn) sugar was bought, water chestnut was bought, and ...... was bought
I ate popsicles, a bowl of ice and snow soaked in brown sugar water, Xin Street Daciping fern was eaten, sweet white wine was eaten, sugar residue was drunk, Xiamura bean noodles were eaten, and Baoshan fire roasted meat was eaten ......
The lamentation plough rake meeting, the millennium temple fair, the temple fair for the millennium.
Reunion and reunion for the Lantern Festival, eat sweet rice balls, and be happy to catch the temple fair.
Rush to the temple fair to prepare for the shortage of stock, and busy with spring plowing after the Lantern Festival. Eat glutinous rice balls, go far away, pray for a good harvest of grains, prosperity of the six animals, and abundant wealth.
The Lantern Festival is joyful, and the stars are full of moon. (Chen Yongjun).