Foreword
In the afternoon, when I went to deliver lamps to my grandparents, I met Brother Nan who was going to the ancestral hall, so I followed his car to the ancestral hall. Brother Nan said, "Today we will organize young people to dance the dragon lantern", and while speaking, I saw that the descendants of the village put the dragon lantern in the corner of the ancestral hall, from the dragon head front play beads to the dragon tail, a total of 14 positions. The dragon's head horns are facing the sky, the dragon's eyes are fiery and round, the dragon's body is red and yellow, it still looks quite energetic, and the dragon lantern dance in the Year of the Dragon is a good folk entertainment program. Looking at this long dragon, I have a little little thing I want to realize him - let my son Xixi also be a "dragon hand"!
The New Year is in full swing
The once of the "straw dragon".
For as long as I can remember, the "New Year's Ceremony" about the dragon lantern has been dancing the dragon lantern every year. Tianbu Wei, as a typical village of Zhuanghu, has continued the traditional farming of farming and farming in this village for at least 200 years. From the record of the genealogy, Tianbu Wei is about the Qing Dynasty Daoguang period from Zhangshu Wei moved here, the feudal era here is mostly owned by the big landlord surnamed Pan, and the big pond in front of the door is still called "Panjiatang".
When the new China redivided the land policy, the tenant farmers who moved here turned over one after another to become masters, and they were busy farming and farming, and a village called "Tianbu Wei" was officially born. Why does Long Lantern mention my village, it is because the imprint of "Tianbu Wei" on my life can be said to be innate, ubiquitous, like consciousness engraved in DNA. The dragon lantern of the early years of the "straw dragon" because of rice is also relatively simple to make, and it is made from straw and is inexhaustible. At that time, because the family was farming, the most important thing was rice straw. Every day before the Lantern Festival, the old people prepare some straw with the best texture, and start to compile it with a pot of firewood. First weave the upper jaw of the dragon's head, then weave the lower jaw, and finally weave the dragon body like a twist braid, after the braid, it will be knotted and rolled up into a multi-layer "dog tail" shape, a straw dragon lantern is made, just plug in a hand-held bamboo stick the next day, you can "straw dragon spring".
Before the Lantern Festival dinner, every family has to go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and after the ancestors, they will go home to eat the last "New Year's dinner" of the year. After the meal, it is necessary to start preparing the dragon lantern. Every household will bring a "straw dragon lantern" to the ancestral hall to gather, light incense, and insert three on the "straw dragon" first. After everyone arrives, it is to begin to sound the gongs and drums, and the representatives of the clansmen begin to "sing color", to the effect that they hope that the wind and rain in the village of Shangcang Fuyou will be smooth, every family will have a bumper harvest, and every household will be full, and then everyone will sing with the singers, and this link generally has about 25 minutes of singing. After the singing is over, the dragon lantern begins.
The dragon lantern is in front, the gong and drum team is in the middle, and the people watching the dragon lantern are behind, so it goes from the first house at the head of the village to the last household in the village house. When each household arrived, the head of the household lit a pair of red candles in advance to put incense on the table, lit fireworks and firecrackers to welcome the "dragon", and then inserted an incense stick on the "straw dragon". When you want to go to the end of the village, each "straw dragon" is connected into a "dragon smoke", and at the end of a "straw dragon", everyone is either incense ash or "incense hole" on their clothes, and they will inevitably be beaten by their families when they go home. The most wonderful time is to go to the "Shegongye" (the temple of the temple in charge of the five grains) under a big camphor tree, burn the "straw dragon", when one by one "straw dragon" put on the pine pile,——, the fire immediately began to pull up more than a zhang high on the spot, the higher the burn, the more vigorous, it means that the village is more prosperous this year. Everyone stared intently at this year-old fire, their faces were flushed, I didn't understand what this ritual meant at that time, I only felt that the fire was soaring, the heat wave hit people, and no matter how cold the spring cold was, in front of this fire, it was also iced out.
At this time, I believe that everyone's heart is warm. I also believe that the ancestors of Tianbu may have been able to drive away evil gods and pray for blessings from heaven and earth from this fire, from the blue wisps of the road when exploring the road, and from the thorns and thorns, so that the families of Fuyou Village will have a good harvest and be safe every year. Such a simple wish can only be penetrated by a bunch of heavenly fire, and it can be crisp, even the gods on the stars should be able to see and warm it....
The rebirth of the "Lantern Dragon".
If the "straw dragon" originates from the masterpiece of farming, it represents the yearning of the "Tianbu Wei" people for a bumper harvest; Then the appearance of "Lantern Dragon" represents the pursuit of "prosperity and strength" by the people of Tianbu New Village in the new era. The harvest that once depended on for a living is now just a small episode of life. With the rise of the garment industry and curtain industry in recent years, the young people of "Tianbu Wei" village have bought houses and cars in the city. Mechanized farming has already been realized, and only an old man needs to take care of it occasionally and plant it for one season. Farming is no longer a family's pursuit for a year, and farming is no longer a profession for most young people.
If a flat pole and a hoe are the work portrayals of the young people of the generation: the sunrise and sunset rest, but often hungry; So now, an ipone, a car, and a set of sewing machine production lines represent the daily work of the new generation of young people: easy and comfortable, stepping on the machine, taking goods, running orders, and getting 180,000 yuan a year. Today's young people have not only lost the raw materials for tying "straw dragons", but also lost the skills of tying "straw dragons". A "lantern dragon" composed of cloth and photoelectric will inevitably become the inevitable choice of the new generation of dragon lanterns.
The process of walking the dragon lantern is still the inheritance of the past, and there is not much difference, but the "content" of dry goods is also incomparable to the past. The head of the household will prepare a cigarette, as well as candy and pastries, or a red envelope, and hand it over to the "blessing" person, followed by a car to collect the "welfare", and then return to the ancestral hall after visiting all the homes, and distribute the "welfare" to the men, women and children of the whole village, and the "donation" cash will be confiscated as the funds for the follow-up activities of the clan, and the list will be made on time. When my son Xi got half a "Jinsheng" cigarette and two bottles of milk, as a young man who took on the "dragon hand" for the first time, he was excited and joyful, and when I went home to sleep, Xi said, "Dad, I'll play for a while", obviously this traditional atmosphere also attracted the interest of later generations. I think: Perhaps, from such traditional customs, the post-05 generation will have a different experience and responsibility. Such a inheritance of the power will drive these more than ten descendants, two hours a night, more than 20,000 steps, they are not only a dragon lantern, but also a kind of spirit, is the source of the ancestors for the "Tianbu Wei" new village to add bricks and tiles, is the successor force of the construction of a beautiful new countryside.
The history of changes is accompanied by a microcosm of the history of reform and opening up. Starting from the dragon lantern, the baton of history will be danced from generation to generation through the interpretation of the dragon lantern in Tianbu Wei Village, and they will be brave to hold the baton and write a new brilliant and brilliant in the struggle of the new era!