Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

After drinking some tea and eating a few fruits, the old man left. For him, this was a rare holiday and he was very happy. However, he didn't know when the next time would be. distressed.

As soon as the old man left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Although they felt good, they still felt stressed.

Chapter 470

Traditionally, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the year is considered over.

In many areas of China, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the New Year.

All ethnic groups across the country have the custom of celebrating grandly on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In the south, there are many types of celebrations because of their ethnicity and regionality, but in the north, they are basically all festivities.

The Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month is also called the Lantern Festival, so there is a saying of making lanterns.

There will be grand lantern shows all over the north on this day. People wear new clothes against the cold and walk out of their homes in groups in the evening to enjoy the annual lantern festival.

Generally, the festival of lanterns is held in a relatively open park, where there are mountains and lakes. Large and small lanterns of various whimsical ideas are placed on the side of the road, and people enjoy them along the road while eating various snacks.

There are all kinds of lanterns, colorful, the themes are auspicious blessings, joy and harvest, and there are also legends of gods and ghosts. The big lanterns are as big as a house, and the small ones are only the size of a fist. Sound effects, music, fire-breathing, rotating, blooming, and so on.

Children will get a gift on this day, which is a small lantern in their hand.

The children in the countryside get hand-tied by adults, and a candle is lit inside. Although it is not very beautiful and it is very easy to extinguish, it also makes the children very happy and runs around the village with them.

The children in the city mostly buy plastic products with bright colors, a small light bulb inside, and the battery is hidden in the handle.

The common ones are lotus lamps or animal-shaped lamps, and there are also advanced ones, such as revolving lanterns or lamps with opening and closing functions, which are much more expensive.

Ordinary people are willing to spend a few dollars to buy one for their children during the Chinese New Year, but they will carefully pack the lights away, and when the festival is over, they will carefully repack and put away the lights behind their children's backs. In the second year, it is still a new lamp, or it can be exchanged between neighbors and colleagues, so as to prevent children from crying because of the same shape for several consecutive years.

There are also naughty children. It is good to take the lamp out, but it is broken when you take it back, and you can’t escape it if you beat it hard. But the good thing is that he will have a new lamp in the second year, so one thing is Whether it's good or bad, it's really not easy to say.

This year's Lantern Festival in Benxi is in Huayuan Mountain, also known as Wangxi Park.

In fact, the Lantern Festival in Benxi is here every year.

Some business units also have their own Lantern Festivals, but the scale is much smaller, and most of them are for internal employees to enjoy themselves and not for the public.All the factories and mines under Benxi Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. will operate, and they are all external, and the scale is not small. This is because the factories and mines under Benxi Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. are often a district or town with a large population base.

At that time, apart from the Spring Festival Gala, there were not so many galas, and ordinary people’s leisure life was very monotonous, so enterprises and the government were willing to hold some activities to enrich the lives of ordinary people.Later, the TV culture became more and more developed, and such activities became less and less. In the Internet age, even TV was abandoned, and people basically lived with their mobile phones. The couple talked on WeChat: dear, what do you eat?casual!Dear, it's been a few days, let me post today?The show I'm following has just been updated.Honey, look up at me. "Whoosh" came over to take a selfie.

At 04:30 in the afternoon, Zhang Xingming's family had dinner, packed up, and went out to Huayuan Mountain.

Grandma and grandpa don't want to go out. They are getting older, and it's a crime to suffer from the cold.

The little brother Mao Jun holds a lantern in his hand alone, the little brother holds Monkey King's, the handle is a golden cudgel, and Mao Jun holds a little tiger.

Along the way, my younger brother was always bumping into Mao Jun with his own lantern, shouting: "Wu Song fights the tiger." "Sun Wukong fights the tiger." Said: "Little soldier, can you be honest for a while? You are not tired, even Monkey King is tired."

Sister Xiaoying stayed with the second aunt in the hospital and didn't come back. Girls are more reliable than boys. Xiaobing has recovered emotionally these days, and his playful nature has returned.

Sister Mao Lan and brother walked side by side behind a few naughty boys, looking much more stable, followed by mother, father, uncle and aunt Mao, Zhang Xingming and Li Chun walking aside.

Uncle Mao and Aunt Mao spent this Spring Festival at Zhang Xingming's house except for going back to their hometown to visit the elderly.

The closer you are to the park, the more people there will be. The noises of children can be heard everywhere, and the adults are also in groups of three or five. Everyone has a smile on their faces. The neighborhood relationship in this era is unimaginable for future generations. , Even better than the relationship between most family relatives in later generations.

When we reached the gate of the park, the sky was completely dark, and the crowd merged into a crowd. At a glance, people's heads were all moving in the colorful lights.

Small business stalls run from the entrance of the park to the Lantern District. The park is open tonight free of charge, and the staff are maintaining order.

Sellers of small lanterns, masks, balloons, various snacks, rings, throwing sandbags, throwing mahjong tiles, and various small games are surrounded by a dense crowd, and they laugh from time to time, attracting more people Attract past.

There were too many people, so the girl ran to Sister Mao Lan, Xiao Bing and Zhang Xingming came together, only the younger brother and Mao Jun held the lanterns and squeezed here and there, looking at them, very busy and happy.

Li Chun stayed by Zhang Xingming's side forever, Tang Xin and the three of them dispersed, one took care of the younger brother and Mao Jun in the front, one followed Dad and the other four, and the other took care of the situation from afar and provided support at any time.

No matter how big or small a lantern is, every lantern has a fan for visitors to guess and play. Large lanterns have more fans, and small lanterns generally have only one fan. They are surrounded by a group of people discussing and guessing. If you have the answer in your heart, write down the light number and report the puzzle to the staff. If you get it right, you will get a prize, and then the staff will come and replace the puzzle.

The prizes are some towels, handkerchiefs, washbasins, pens, etc. They are not worth much, but they represent honor and happiness.There are also rich ones, such as flashlights, radios, and thermos pots, but the number is very small.

The flow of people slowed down when they entered the lantern area. Many people were watching in front of each large lantern, and they made exclamations from time to time. People in this era have really never seen anything. A little bit of tricks in the bad streets of later generations will Can provoke an uproar.

Except for a few static ones, large-scale lanterns are all moving. A cycle ranges from a few minutes to more than ten minutes. People always have to watch the whole thing before moving forward, or the particularly beautiful ones will even attract people to watch for several cycles. , more and more people gathered.

Chapter 471 Guessing the Light Fan (1)

Zhang Xingming and the others are standing in front of a large peony-shaped lantern that blooms once every 10 minutes. Inside the lantern is a beautiful woman in a palace costume. Every 10 minutes the flower blooms, and the noodles held by the beautiful lady in the palace costume are replaced once. The prize for this lantern It is quite unique, it is the shopping roll of Hexiang Shopping Mall, Zhang Xingming only saw it when he got close, and he does not know whose idea it was.

The lanterns in the park are all donated by various units and enterprises. There is a brand next to the lanterns, which has detailed instructions on the donating unit, lantern name, meaning, shape, etc., and also introduces the prizes for lantern fans and how to receive awards.

My mother said: "This lamp is beautiful, and it's still a real person inside. The little girl is also pretty, isn't it cold in this?" Zhang Xingming pointed to the lamp core and said: "There is a greenhouse inside. They come out for 10 minutes and stand for a while. It's over. Just keep warm there, and two or three people will change, so it won’t be cold.”

Mom looked at the sign on the side and said: "That's okay, you made it?"

Zhang Xingming shook his head and said, "I don't know, I guess it was Xiaohong and the others who made it, and I only knew about it." He waved to a person in the uniform of a security company next to the lantern, and said, "Huazi, come here."

Huazi is an old man from the security company. Zhang Xingming knew all the first batch of demobilized soldiers, but he didn't know all of the later batches.

"Er Ming, Uncle, Aunt, you are all here." Hua Zi walked over with a smile.

Zhang Xingming said, "Shall we make lights too?"

Huazi pointed to the park and said: "Many, there are eleven in total. Today we have the most lamps, all of which are large. The second is Bengang. There are nine of them, all of which are also large. The rest are lamps." It is other units, the government has the least, two, and one is a small lamp."

Zhang Xingming said: "How many people came? Whose idea was this prize? The government asked for it?"

Huazi said: "Our team is all here, and many people from the Black Bear team also came. The boss said that they are better than us in catching thieves and hooligans, because they have all done it with experience, haha. I don't know the prize. I was notified yesterday. We are here today, how about I ask for you?" In this era of large-scale gatherings, thieves and hooligans are indispensable, and fights are inevitable.

Zhang Xingming waved his hands and said, "No, no, it's okay. This is done well. It's an advertisement. You should be on duty. Let's take a walk."

Hua Zi beckoned, and ran over with two security guards. Now Zhang Xingming and his team had two more people, but it was also more convenient. The security guards had walkie-talkies, which could be used as mobile phones within a short distance, and also Dial the municipal program-controlled telephone.

Follow the route arranged by the organizer, walk slowly forward with the crowd, look at the tall or short lanterns on the side of the road, look at the children wearing new clothes and holding small lanterns in the crowd and laughing, Watching the lanterns amazed the onlookers from time to time, watching people gather together and rack their brains to guess the fans of the lights, this scene made Zhang Xingming, who was indifferent to the world after the experience, feel warm.

"Hey, this lamp is beautiful, where does the fire come from? Don't be afraid of catching fire, the dragon can still move, oh, spray it around a few times." My mother vomited at a dragon donated by Benxi Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. The large ball lanterns sighed.

In fact, this fire-breathing is very simple. There is a fire-breathing head hidden behind a petal. When the dragon-shaped lamp turns here, the faucet will have a downward movement, and the nozzle will enter the faucet from a small hole under the faucet, and then because The pressure of the faucet forces the natural gas below to spray out, which is ignited by the automatic ignition device at the dragon's teeth, forming a sprayed flame.

This is the same principle as the inflatable barrel of a natural gas lighter. When the faucet is lifted, the pressure disappears, the natural gas stops spraying, and the flame stops. The whole process is only two or three seconds, but because the distance of the fire is a little far, It seems that the momentum is relatively large.

After looking around and spraying fire three times, my mother said: "This is good, it's booming, guess this riddle, it's a good sign if you guess it right."

Everyone excitedly gathered around to guess the fans, and Zhang Xingming slandered his mother in his stomach: "It's a bad omen if you can't guess right?" But he didn't dare to say this sentence to death.

"Bright moon, when, empty, people are exhausted, look up, bright moon is empty, people are exhausted, what is the word?" The younger brother and Mao Jun went to the front of the crowd and read aloud, turning their heads to ask their mother.

Everyone was thinking, some looked up at the sky, hoping to find something, some looked down at the ground, as if they could find something, some closed their eyes and muttered something, some frowned and stared at the fascinated face, quietly, some people kept shaking their heads Walk away, people keep joining in.