The Lantern Festival is coming, and the festive atmosphere in the Northeast is the strongest. Northeast people will get together as a family, and there is a custom of making "vegetable lanterns", eating Lantern Festival, and appreciating lanterns.
The Lantern Festival in my first year of high school was the most lively in my memory, and our family participated in it from top to bottom, happily shaking a lot of Lantern Festival, and started a small business selling Lantern Festival.
Grandma also made vegetable lanterns at home, and the days are like the flames in the lanterns, which are becoming more and more prosperous.
On this full moon night, the whole family will go out of the house to enjoy the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles.
Lively Lantern Festival
That year, my father was the manager of a state-run hotel, and my mother worked in a department store. My family had just built a new house, and my brother and I were both in school, so we didn't have a lot of money.
Before the Lantern Festival, the hard-working father organized the whole family to make the Lantern Festival, focusing on a filling that is full of delicious food, and sold to make money and supplement the family.
So, the whole family participated in the Lantern Festival. There are two kinds of Lantern Festival: bean paste filling and five-kernel filling.
Father, the peanuts I bought first, roasted them in the oven in the restaurant, and brought them home, and my grandmother and I rubbed off the skin of the peanuts by hand.
Mom and grandma chop them up, add oil and sugar to make a filling, and take them outside to refrigerate for a while.
Once the filling has solidified, you can take it back and cut it into squares of about two centimeters and place them on the table like mahjong blocks.
At this time, my brother and I would also steal a few pieces, and my grandmother and mother also pretended not to see it, and the sweet, fragrant filling slowly melted in my mouth, which was a delicious taste on the tip of my childhood tongue.
Next, it is the steps of wrapping the Lantern Festival, grandma and mother use boiling water to adjust the glutinous rice flour dough in advance, take a small piece of dough, put it in the palm of your hand, hollow it out, put in the filling, close the mouth, and knead it a few times, and it is made into a big Lantern Festival.
Then take the Lantern Festival outdoors with a large dustpan, freeze it naturally, and put it in a big bag.
The living room of the East House "has been transformed into a small Lantern Festival workshop, in which the family is shaking, shaking large and round Lantern Festivals. While doing, chatting, laughing, and enjoying the joy of labor.
More than 60 catties of glutinous rice flour were wrapped for several days. My mother's colleague heard that my family was making Lantern Festival, and they all wanted to buy it, so my mother sold Lantern Festival in the unit, three yuan a catty, cheaper than the market price, delicious, and sold out in two days.
The glutinous rice flour and stuffing that my father bought cost 60 yuan and sold for 180 yuan. In those days, they really made a lot of money, and now, when they mention it, their faces are also smiling.
That Lantern Festival, my family has enough materials and a large Lantern Festival with fragrant taste, and it was sold at a good price.
The hard-working family also gave me a deeper understanding of the Lantern Festival in my memory. As long as the family is together, as long as they are willing to endure hardships, the days will be as sweet as the Lantern Festival, and they will get better and better.
Make vegetable lanternsLots of fun
In the long river of history, there are countless splendid traditional festivals. They are like stars, illuminating the long history of our nation.
Among them, the Lantern Festival is the brightest and warmest one. It carries rich cultural connotations and entrusts people's yearning and pursuit of a better life.
The Lantern Festival is coming, and my grandmother will lead me to make vegetable lanterns. According to her, when she was in Shandong, she followed adults to make vegetable lanterns when she was a child, lighting vegetable lanterns, meaning that life is prosperous.
My father would lead me to the warehouse in front of the main house and go down to the cellar. Fresh carrots, green radish, carrots, and bok choy buried in the sand were removed from the cellar.
My father would also bring me a few green Guoguang apples, and I ran back to the house with the basket of vegetables in joy.
Grandma cut the washed radish into sections, and used a knife to cut the shape of the radish segment into a square and pentagonal shape. Cut some small mouths and scoop out the inner bowl with a spoon or coin.
Candle heads are inserted into small holes dug out, or vegetable oil is poured on them, and slender strips made of cotton thread are used as wicks to make "vegetable lanterns".
Baicai lamp, a cabbage lamp made of cabbage head,Vegetable head homophonic color headThere are also good intentions to pray for blessings and good fortune! It means that wealth comes from all directions, and the days are prosperous.
When my grandmother made the lamp, I watched happily from the side, watching her use a small spoon to dig out small carrot balls, small carrot balls, some of which I stuffed into my mouth, and the radishes buried in the sand were well hydrated and sweet.
On the afternoon of the Lantern Festival, vegetable lamps are placed on the high place on the cabinet or door at home, and when it gets dark, my grandmother leads me to light these lamps, put one outside the door, and put lights in the low corners of the walls and windowsills in the house.
The lantern must be placed at home to attract wealth from all directions.
At home, some pasta dishes of various shapes will be made in advance to pray for blessings, pig's heads, star insects, noodle fish, housekeepers, and toto with money in their mouths.
The pig's head and the fish are placed on the cabinet, and the housekeeper is placed on the windowsill. Starworms are placed in rice bags or granaries, which means that the rice noodles cannot be eaten and the days are rich.
Toto placed it on the windowsill and prayed for happiness, good luck, and peace.
Now, after her grandmother passed away, she will be happy to see in heaven that many years later, her sons and daughters will really live as she wishes, and they will become more and more prosperous.
My mother and I will also make all kinds of vegetable lanterns on the eve of the Lantern Festival.
Tonight, we will also light vegetable lamps in our respective homes in the Great Northeast and other towns to symbolize happiness and peace. This candle flame will also illuminate the future life and future of children and grandchildren.
LanternsGuess the lantern riddles
The lantern is the most symbolic item of the Lantern Festival. It represents light and hope, implying that people are looking for direction in the darkness and pursuing a better life.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, in the Northeast, the town will organize a lantern exhibition, and hang the beautiful lanterns selected by various units and grassroots villages in the courtyard of the town.
When I was a child, the lanterns were mostly made of bamboo, and the outside was made of silk in various shapes, and the lanterns were lit up in various shapes, and they were colorful at night.
They also make lanterns and hang them in front of their doors, in the treetops, and under the eaves, and they illuminate their homes against the snow.
My family also has a big red lantern, and years ago, my father would cut the red paper into strips, and then paste it on the lantern, screwed a red light bulb into it, hung it in the yard, and turned it on.
From the Spring Festival to the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the red lanterns in my house are lit, and they are very bright. Under the red lantern, in the snow, my father led us to set off firecrackers was also the happiest scene.
When we were children, the Lantern Festival in the countryside was more lively, and the friends would also carry lanterns made of glass bottles, go to the villages and alleys to set off firecrackers, enjoy the lanterns, and then run to each house from house to house to make Lantern Festival.
Write at the end
No matter how time changes, no matter where I am, the Lantern Festival will always be the brightest and warmest star in my heart.
On weekdays, I like the process of cooking Lantern Festival or rice balls, in the hot water, tumbling up and down, ups and downs, but the result is sweet after all, and the ending is always happy.
Our life is just like this Lantern Festival, after hardships, ups and downs, before it can be completed.
Only when you are round and kind, positive and promising, can you embrace the sunshine and lay the cornerstone of your career;
Middle-aged people can be self-consistent and self-focused, so that they can reconcile positively and embrace a new life;
When the elderly are round and open-minded and learn to be relieved, they will look down on impermanence and enjoy the blessings of longevity.
In the spring night, sheng songs welcome the festival, and thousands of lights make Lantern Festival; Spend a good moon and reunite, and be safe every year.
Today is the Lantern Festival, let us feel the strong family affection in laughter and blessings, and celebrate this festival that symbolizes reunion and happiness together.
May this first full moon night of the Year of the Dragon be an eternal memory and precious treasure in our hearts.
I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival!
May everything you ask for be fulfilled, and happiness will always be with you!
May the winter be gone, the lights will be bright, and the Shangyuan will be healthy.