After dinner, we came out of the hot pot restaurant and saw a sea of people on the street, bustling and very lively. On the roadside open space, many children are setting off fireworks, and colorful sparks roar across the sky from time to time, or emerge from the ground, making the night sky of the Lantern Festival more brilliant and gorgeous.
Walking, unconsciously, I have reached the square of the county seat, where a light show is being held. There are so many lights here! You see, there are all kinds of lights hanging in front of all the shops. There are paper, yarn, glass, plastic ... Some lamps are covered with pink coats, some lamps are wearing golden pants, some lamps are covered with pale blue shawls, and some lamps are lined with colorful color-changing clothes.
Today is the 15th day of the first month, the traditional festival of China people-Lantern Festival, and our family is very happy.
According to my mother, a long time ago, the weather was good, the crops were bumper, and the people were well-fed and lived in peace and contentment. Sudden disaster arrival, flooding in the city, drought in the fields outside the city, it turned out that the queen mother invited the jade emperor to dinner, and the jade emperor was as drunk as a fiddler. After the banquet, there was room to go back to the palace to do things, so Yu wrote it wrong. It should be five points of rain outside the city and three points of rain inside the city, but the Jade Emperor wrote it backwards. Knowing the reason, Qinglong sneaked into the Heavenly Palace, changed Colleen Chan, and slowly restored the world to its true colors. When the Jade Emperor woke up, he also found that he had written a mistake in Colleen Chan, and wanted to correct it, but he was afraid of etiquette saying that he was careless, so he had to correct it. Later, when the Jade Emperor found that his Colleen Chan had been changed, he was furious and sent the Prime Minister down to kill Qinglong. The prime minister did so. After being killed by the Prime Minister, Qinglong became a divine bird and cried outside the Jade Emperor's Hall. Feeling ashamed, the Jade Emperor wrote a book asking the Yellow Emperor to issue an order to the people to commemorate the Qinglong who saved them. Every Spring Festival, people beat gongs and drums, play with dragons and lions for several years and celebrate the Lantern Festival.
The custom of Lantern Festival is to eat dumplings to make everyone happy, so tonight my mother "delegated power" and gave me the responsibility of cooking dumplings. I regard it as a very important task, and I am afraid to cook it, so my heart seems to be pounding with a rabbit in my arms. I used to watch my mother cook jiaozi. I'll boil the water first, and then put jiaozi in carefully. I waited anxiously, waiting. Jiaozi, who was white and fat, surfaced and watched them swell up one by one. I shouted happily, "jiaozi is out of the pot." I'm glad jiaozi didn't cook it. Everyone happily tasted my jiaozi, and my "gourmet" mother gave me a hundred points, praising me for growing up and being sensible. The first time I made dumplings, I got such a high evaluation. I was so excited and my heart was full of joy.
At about seven o'clock in the evening, the family went downstairs together to set off fireworks. I happened to meet my good friend Liu Yifan, and we went to set off fireworks together. I took the biggest "Golden Coconut" fireworks, lit incense and saw the beautiful "Camellia" blooming in the sky. Liu Yifan and I applauded. I took another super-large "Scud", only to see it streaking across the sky like a meteor, emitting colorful light and flying away. Then I shook the flowers, baskets and parachutes. ...
Finally, our whole family sat on the sofa and watched the Lantern Festival with relish.
Today, I learned the common sense of cooking jiaozi and felt the joy of setting off fireworks. I dreamed that every day was Lantern Festival. I'm looking forward to the Lantern Festival next year. ...