The beautiful scenery of the Spring Festival is full of red lights. Feng Zikai
Someone labeled Mr. Wang Zengqi as a local writer, and he was unwilling to accept it; Some people say that he is a genre painter, so he is very happy and admits that it seems to be the case. He said that he likes to read genre paintings and books about customs, and said, "I am interested in customs because I think it is beautiful. ….. customs reflect a nation’s love for life and its joy in being alive. "
In his works, all kinds of customs are too thick to melt away. Sometimes I feel that he is not writing novels or people, but writing customs (such as Three Sisters Married). Those old-time street customs, seven lines and eight works of daily life, etc., all come out of his words, with the breath of the traditional farming era, slow, distant and subtle … as if that familiar old song left behind by the times, it makes people sweet and sad. With the arrival of the tide of modernization, there is no trace of "wild" in some industries and customs, so we can only seek the world of words. This is also the meaning of Wang Zengqi.
In Wang Zengqi’s view, customs mainly refer to ceremonies and festivals. Lantern Festival, as an important folk festival of China people, is also a continuation of the Lunar New Year, and it is natural that it appears in his works of various colors in different periods. What’s more, he was born on March 5, 1920, which happened to be the Lunar Lantern Festival. With such a reason, he seems to be more willing to express his feelings and express his feelings.
The article Yuanxiao in my hometown was written on February 12, 1993, just five or six days after the Lantern Festival. In his article, he recalled that the Lantern Festival in his hometown was quiet in the daytime, and Kirin was sent occasionally or in years-he was deeply impressed by the song that sent Kirin: "Let’s blow it up, let’s blow it up, let’s send it to your home …", and there were sugar blowers and dough kneaders in the alley mouth, or we went to the heaven and earth altar to watch people pull "Tian Om Zi" and went to Taishan Temple to watch the old mother burn incense. The day is almost over. Then he changed his pen: "But the Lantern Festival won’t count until the evening when the lights are on." Then write the lights-this is also the highlight of the article: "The lights in all the rooms are lit. Aunt, there are four square glass lamps in the room. In the second mother’s room, there is a glass lamp with a red birthday and a bead lamp. My stepmother ordered red glazed bulbs in her room. A room full of lights, bright and gentle, looks very auspicious. " He also wrote to go to the streets to see the lanterns-the lanterns of various families; Children have their own lanterns-rabbit lanterns, hydrangea lanterns, lantern lanterns, and small children have watermelon lanterns, frog lanterns, and fish lanterns … They also wrote a custom that is not found in other places: watching the screen; Write that there is a red lantern in the sky: "Bamboo sticks are bones, covered with red paper, a rectangular tube with candles lit inside and put in the sky." Lanterns are very easy to put. You don’t even need a brain thread. You can fly by tying a thread on one corner. Lanterns are fluttering slightly in the sky. I don’t know why, but it makes people feel a little thin and desolate. "
The ending is like this: "After the New Year, all the shops will be’ wide open’ on the 16th tomorrow. In our place, shops are closed from the first day to the fifth day. On the sixth day of the sixth day, two rows of doors are opened to sell something necessary for the citizens, which is called’ small opening the door’. 16. Remove all the rows of doors, put a whip and some firecrackers. It’s called’ open the door’ and starts normal business. Years, so it passed. "
It’s a lingering sound, and it won’t stop for three days. Like his teacher, Mr. Shen Congwen, Mr. Wang is good at ending.
In the autobiographical essay "My Father", he writes about his father’s skillful hands, always living with great interest and making all kinds of things. "On the Lantern Festival, he used medulla tetrapanacis as the petal, dyed the depth with western red painting peony, made a lotus lamp, lit a candle, and it was more beautiful than real flowers. He dyed cicada’s wing paper light green, and made a spinning maiden lamp with iron wire as the bone, and put a fine bamboo stick under it. My sister and I mentioned it, holding these two lamps to the streets and visiting our neighbors’ houses, and many people gathered around to watch. " What a rich and memorable childhood! Wang Zengqi once said emotionally: "My childhood was beautiful."
Reading Wang Wen, we can see that when he was a child, he wandered around freely, and the relaxed family and educational environment was amazing. The reason why he became the later Wang Zengqi is inseparable from his childhood experience. If you don’t indulge in this when you are young, and you don’t have years of infiltration and exposure, how can you have these vivid words later!
His skills are "hidden" in his body, and he "shines" in different genres of works from time to time. Just mention the ones related to the Lantern Festival:
He wrote about the wheelwright: making gyroscopes and empty clocks for children in autumn. In summer, make a water gun. Spring, bamboo dragonfly. "Chinese New Year paste rabbit lamp, we go to buy wheels. The wheelwright watched a rabbit lantern being pulled from the street. In the street where there was a little ice, firecrackers smelled yellow and the shadows were heavy in the soft light of paper lamps amid the sound of gongs and drums. ….. "("The Rider "in 1947)
Miscellaneous Notes on Hometown Li San (1981): Li San is a temple blessing, and he usually has nothing to do. "During the Chinese New Year, find two’ lamp pairs’ and hang them on both sides of the temple gate. The lamp pair is a rectangular paper lamp, with a wooden frame nailed inside and white paper pasted outside, with the words "Good weather" on one side and "Peace for the country and the people" on the other. There is a horizontal partition in the lamp pair, so you can light candles. From the first day of the first month to the Lantern Festival. For more than half a month, the front of the land temple was bright and festive. "
The beginning of the novel Bead Lamp (1981):
The custom here is that the second year after a rich lady gets married, her family will send a lamp. The purpose of sending lanterns is to pray for many children. A few days before the Lantern Festival, you can often see teams delivering lanterns in the street. Several female servants, wearing clean clothes, with their hair combed bare, wearing double happiness red velvet flowers, each carrying a lamp; There are several trumpeters playing fine music in front. Far away, I heard the flute that sent the lights, and many people’s doors opened. The girl and daughter-in-law came out, leaned against the door and looked, pointing and commenting quietly. This is also the Lantern Festival scene of the year.
There are usually six lights in a hall. Four smaller ones, mostly dyed red or white, and painted with red flowers. One is a unicorn to send a child: a doll made of dyed glass horns rides on a unicorn. There is also a bead lamp: a big palace lantern made of green glass beads. The lamp body is made of eight glasses, painted with red characters of each body’s birthday, and the rest are beads. The phoenix head with eight beads protrudes from the top cover, and the phoenix has a small banner with beads in its mouth, and the tassels of the beads are embroidered under it. The weight of this lamp is quite heavy. When it is delivered, two people have to carry it with a pole. This is a main lamp, hanging in the middle of the room. Next to the Kirin Songzi, glazed bulbs are hung in the four corners.
On the night of the "Lantern Festival", red candles were inserted in these lamps and lit. From thirteen "lights on" to eighteen "lights off", several nights were lit in succession. Usually these lights are not lit.
When the lights are lit in the room, the atmosphere is very different. These lights are not very bright (the purpose of lighting is not for lighting), but they are very soft. Especially the bead lamp, shed a light green light. In the green light, the shadow of Zhufan is swaying gently, like a dream and water, which is extremely quiet. The lights of the Lantern Festival spread auspicious, happy and vague hopes.
At this beginning, knowledge, interest, atmosphere and foreshadowing are all available. Is it an idle pen?
Wang Zengqi also used birthdays and Lantern Festival to express his feelings. On his sixtieth birthday, he wrote a poem:
Frozen clouds want to wet the lantern,
The willow in chun yin is not green.
Walk along the road beside Yuyuantan,
Last year, the leaves were too clear.
On his seventieth birthday, he also wrote a poem-"seventy books are conceived and the law is not changed"
You’re 70 years old, drinking too much,
Only feel that climbing is late.
Painting and calligraphy are more than Su Mo,
The article faintly recalls childhood.
Write book reviews and preface,
Don’t be a teacher if you don’t open the atmosphere.
If I have been idle for ten years,
I don’t know how many poems I have left.
It is not difficult to read from the two poems that after ten years, the times, the situation and the mood have changed.
In Seventy Books, he recalled the Lantern Festival when he was a child: "With the light of the Lantern Festival, my birthday will never be forgotten. But when I was a child, I didn’t have a birthday. On that day, I always fiddled with a big rabbit lamp with four wheels under it. At night, I took a homemade rabbit lamp with candles in it, and I ran around the halls and aisles at home, sometimes taking it to familiar shops to visit. "
The Lantern Festival written by Wang Zengqi is beautiful and touching, and it often reminds me of the current children’s education. These articles can actually be used as examples of aesthetic education. Those who are engaged in education and parents should read Wang Zengqi well.
(Author: Duan Chunjuan, Shandong University of Finance and Economics)
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