Where the lights are shining, the same dreamer-the breath of spring from the Lantern Festival in 2019
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 19th Title: Where the lights are bright, we are both dreamers — — The breath of spring from the Lantern Festival in 2019
Xinhua news agency reporter
Silver flowers as shining Lanterns on trees blaze, This very night the bridge towards bright stars opens.
The 19th is the Lantern Festival. At this moment when the moon is full, lanterns are flying everywhere in China, and countless families are happy to get together. There are still many people who have already returned to work, starting again with dreams, and the steps ahead are full of strength.
Lantern is like a day, and people and the moon are round.
On the evening of 19th, the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Red lanterns are dotted with ancient city walls, and gorgeous Chinese lanterns illuminate the magnificent posture … … On the Lantern Festival, the Palace Museum held its first night show in 94 years, which made this ancient palace glow with youthful brilliance. Tourists take photos while walking, enjoying the general surprise and fun of "crossing".
In Baibuting Community, Jiang ‘an District, Wuhan City, residents made 12,000 lanterns from old newspapers, waste oil drums, plastic stools, vegetable baskets and other daily waste items, which attracted citizens from three towns in Wuhan to enjoy the lanterns, and all parts of the community became a sea of colorful lanterns.
Wang Bo, director of the Baibuting Community Management Committee, said that this year is the 19th consecutive year that the community has held the Lantern Festival, which is not only a feast of folk culture, but also a platform for promoting harmony in the neighborhood.
Lantern Festival is much more than lanterns.
Born in Zhiju Village, Yongren County, weichu, Yunnan Province, Li Lifeng is a famous "embroidered mother" in Yongren County. The fifteenth day of the first month of each year is the busiest time in Zhiju Village, and tens of thousands of tourists come here to watch the national "costume" that has been passed down for more than 1000 years.
Early in the morning, Li Lifeng put on the "Chinese clothes" embroidered and sewn by himself — — "It took me more than a month to make this dress, embroidered with my favorite camellia and plum blossoms. I’m going to walk on the runway in this dress and let everyone see our Chuxiong ‘ Embroidered mother ’ The style. "
The moon is full in the sky, and the world is reunited.
"Dad, mom, eat more dumplings." On the night of Lantern Festival, Jiang Bin, a farmer from Zaotian Village, Xinhuang Office, Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province, had a better time than in previous years. When steaming dumplings are served on the table, the family is filled with deep happiness.
Nothing is difficult in the world. A few years ago, their family was still a poor household in the village. By participating in the county’s e-commerce training, Jiang Bin and his father gradually sold homemade bamboo handicrafts and brewed bamboo wine from Dashan to various places, and the income in 2018 reached 130,000 yuan.
"I plan to buy a commercial house in the county this year and live a happy life with my family." Jiang Bin said cheerfully.
All kinds of tastes in the world are not as good as reunion.
In qingtian county, Zhejiang, the hometown of overseas Chinese, going home and reunion have long been internalized as the emotional code of overseas Chinese.
These days, the cultural auditorium in Shankou Village, Shangshankou Town, the county is full of excitement. Lin Zhelu, an overseas Chinese who is nearly 70 years old, took a few villagers and directed a Lantern Festival party by himself, and he served as the host of the party.
"In those days for ‘ Make a living ’ I have gone abroad, but I have never forgotten the customs and culture of my hometown. As soon as the fish lantern dance in Qingtian jumped up, the memory of my hometown came back. " Lin Zhelu said that the development of the motherland is getting better and better, and I hope more overseas Chinese will "go home" to see and feel the warmth of "home".
Witness changes, harmony and integration.
Traditional lanterns witness the changes of the times.
Baotuquan Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Jinan, Quancheng, was held to the 40th session this year. The reform and opening up has brought about earth-shaking changes in the times. Walking in the Lantern Festival with the time ring as the main line, tourists seem to have entered just visiting, and the changes of the times are unfolding before people’s eyes.
Cai Jun, a 61-year-old citizen of Jinan, with his grandson, stopped at the lantern modeling of the "old three pieces" (old color TV sets, sewing machines and dual-card tape recorders) in the early days of reform and opening up. "I can recall the past days at a glance, and I am more impressed by the ever-changing changes in the motherland. I will tell these stories to the children and let them know that happiness depends on struggle. "
Ancient festivals are in harmony with the times.
"Walking around the zigzag bridge in the New Year will sweep away all the troubles in one year." Every year during the Lantern Festival, Shanghai resident Liu Shuangfeng will come to Shanghai Yuyuan Mall to enjoy the lanterns at the Yuyuan Spring Festival Folk Art Lantern Festival.
Walking along the Jiuqu Bridge, the lanterns in the lotus pond opened a long scroll showing the changes of Shanghai’s urban life in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, including the "Three Big Weddings in Shanghai" in the 1970s, the first domestic Santana car, the reconstructed Bund landscape, and the China Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo since the 21st century, which symbolizes the new height of Shanghai and the country’s development.
"40 years ago, the material was poor, not to mention any cultural activities. Looking at this lantern now, I feel that life is getting better and better. " Liu Shuangfeng said.
"Watching lanterns is not only watching the excitement, but also watching history and changes. Fewer and more lanterns ‘ Chao ’ It is the embodiment of the current national development and progress and the improvement of people’s quality of life. " Liang Jiangang, the person in charge of the lantern festival curation, said.
A thousand-year-old tradition is passed down through integration.
"Drawing Lantern Festival lanterns, I understand the traditional folk custom of enjoying lanterns in the Lantern Festival, and also express my idea that I must be filial to my parents and respect the elderly." Li Chengrui’s children are particularly happy to see their cartoon lanterns that wash their parents’ feet with crayons. This winter vacation, more than 60 children in the neighborhood committee of Baibuting Community Modern City in Jiang ‘an District of Wuhan completed the production of lanterns by painting and calligraphy with brush or hand-drawing with animation, and the good deeds and family precepts in the community were painted on the lanterns and kept in mind.
On this Lantern Festival, Lai Xin, a 32-year-old Shanghai white-collar worker, and her husband decided to make glutinous rice balls by themselves. They learned the steps of stir-frying black sesame seeds and mixing noodles from the menu. Outside the kitchen, my son, who just turned 2, curiously waited for his first bowl of glutinous rice balls.
"I hope that when the child grows up, he will make these festival foods or decorations with us and let him remember these traditional Chinese folk customs." Lai Xin said, "More importantly, we want him to know from an early age that a family should be round and loving."
Give up homesickness for a while and start again in the spring.
Parting, in order to get together again.
Since then, it has been a good night. The horn urges people to give up their homesickness for the sake of a more prosperous day and will once again embark on a journey of struggle.
"This year is a crucial year for the construction of the Datengxia project. My wife and I agreed to return to the construction site immediately after the Lantern Festival." On January 27th, Deng Zhaoyu, the builder of Datengxia Project, held a wedding with his wife in his hometown of Mianyang, Sichuan. Before the wedding leave was over, he thought of rushing back to the construction site early.
The Datengxia Water Control Project under construction is located in the Qianjiang reach of the upper reaches of the Xijiang River in Guiping City, Guangxi Province. It is a landmark project of 172 major water saving and water supply projects established by the State Council.
Deng Zhaoyu calculated that in the more than two years from falling in love with his wife to getting married, the time they spent together was less than 100 days. "But I think that only by continuing to do a good job can I repay my wife’s understanding and support."
Strugglers are never alone, and industrious people never stop.
On the lonely ocean, the same machine roared. The deep middle passage under construction is another super project after the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. It is 24 kilometers long and is expected to be completed and opened to traffic in 2024. By then, the journey from Zhongshan to Shenzhen will be shortened from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
Liu Shuai, the builder, is a post-90s generation. He entered the construction project after graduating from university last year. This year, he spent the Lantern Festival on the construction site. "It’s very ‘ to be able to spend your youth in Lingdingyang and achieve self-growth in major projects; Cool ’ Things. "
Reunion tastes the sweetest, and thousands of families make concerted efforts to draw greater unity.
Huang Champion, 35, is the platform manager of DQ1205 drilling team in the market management center of Drilling Company No.2 of anniversary Drilling Engineering Company. This year is his 10th year in Iraq.
"I have a phone call and voice chat with my family during the Lantern Festival. I feel much closer to my family." Huang Champion said.
Overcoming construction problems again and again, refreshing production records again and again, there are still new goals waiting for his team to break through. "We will continue to carry forward the spirit of Daqing and Iron Man and win the trust and respect of the international market for our motherland." Champion Huang’s ambition is just like his name.
After the festival, we are about to embark on a journey, and a new starting point breeds new gains.
Looking at a table of good wine and good food, Zhang Shoupu of Gezhi Village, Huohong Township, Huize County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, was in a trance. The scene in front of him was something he dared not think of many years ago — — Spacious three-bedroom, bright lights reflected on the French windows, children playing in the living room.
"My hometown is halfway up the mountain by the river of the Nitrate Factory. I can’t find a flat land, so people live on the cliff." Zhang Shoupu recalled the place where his ancestors lived.
Zhang Shoupu and many people in the village used to travel outside, leaving behind women and children, making it difficult to travel, go to school and seek medical treatment.
The times have changed in the reform and opening up. As a member of 100,000 ex-situ poverty-stricken relocated people, his family moved into a new home in the county this Spring Festival. "A big house of more than 100 square meters, seven people have settled down."
Zhang Shoupu decided that instead of going out to work, he would work hard in the county and let the children go to school in the county.
With the firecrackers on the Lantern Festival night, the prelude to the new life of the whole family has been opened. (Reporter Wu Zhendong, Chen Aiping, Yang Siqi, Li Jinfeng, Cao Yiming, Shao Luwen, Liu Yuqi, Tang Tao, Tian Jianchuan)