The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival that Chinese attaches great importance to, and on this day, the indispensable way for children to celebrate the festival is to pull a rabbit lamp. These days, the rabbit lights in Yuyuan Mall are particularly hot.
In Yu Garden, many citizens come to help children purchase rabbit lamps, and some even bring their children to choose together. This year's rabbit lights are varied, this plastic rabbit lights have a variety of cartoon shapes, can be pulled on the ground, can also be carried on the hand, press the button can also sound music. In addition, some semi-finished products are simple to make and can exercise children's hands-on ability, which is also very popular.
Since last year, a kind of fabric material rabbit lamp into everyone's vision, a variety of floral cloth, with ruby eyes, and then inlaid with a circle of "golden edge", some also installed four "golden wheels", and the flower cloth is also constantly updated, this year is more out of the lace, embroidery, colorful, dazzling.
According to the store, plastic, inflatable rabbit lights are sold well because of their cheap prices, and these fabric rabbit lights are moderately priced, fashionable and good-looking, and they also sell well. However, to say that I must most admire the "ancient method" rabbit lamp that the old craftsmen spend time and energy to carefully make.
This oldest rabbit lamp is already a very strange thing for many young people, but in fact, for people who are a little older, such a rabbit lamp is the best memory of childhood. At that time, every child will receive a rabbit lamp made by the elderly at home at the Lantern Festival, carefully selected bamboo skewers need to be scalded with boiling water, after processing to maintain toughness, and then put out the original shape of the rabbit lamp, and then paste the white paper, cut out the eyes and ears with red paper, cutting rabbit hair is a particularly time-consuming step, patient people cut out rabbit hair neatly and meticulously, some in order to save time, will be cut relatively coarse.
After all is done, carefully put on a small candle, and then full of sacred light candles, pull the rabbit lamp, look at the flickering candlelight inside, that happiness, not only belongs to the Lantern Festival, but also extends to a year, derived to a lifetime, so that many people still reminisce.
Gu Jia'er told reporters that now the people who can concentrate on making this kind of rabbit lamp are already seventy-year-old people facing upwards, because it is time-consuming and laborious, few young people can sink their temperament to do it, but with the emergence of more and more cheap and beautiful rabbit lights, the advantages of old-fashioned rabbit lamps are getting smaller and smaller, and maybe two or three years later it will really become a memory. However, with a little selfishness, Gu Jia'er insisted that as long as the old people continue to make rabbit lights, the store will definitely reserve space for them, so that the old-fashioned rabbit lights are hung in the most eye-catching position, even if young people may not necessarily buy, they must let them know that there are such rabbit lights, so that they know how their parents and grandparents spent the Lantern Festival.
Reporter / Shao Linfeng Qu Huangjun
Editor / Sun Chaohui
Photo / Qu Huangjun
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