After Black Lotus became a reborn person, he went completely crazy

When people here make a wish, they usually wish for a big red rooster.

A cock with an ugly comb won’t do, and a cock with an ugly tail won’t do either.

Therefore, that beautiful bright red rooster with a big red crown has always been very popular in this place, and its price remains high, much more expensive than old hens.

After all, it is used when fulfilling a wish, during funerals, and even when Yin-Yang masters perform rituals at home.

If someone has a big red rooster, they would be reluctant to sell it even if they don't need it for the time being and would keep it just in case.

If relatives need it, I will exchange it for them.

As for the flour lamp, when it’s night, put some cleaning oil (sesame oil) in it, and then insert your homemade cotton wick, and it’s done.

These flour lamps need to be lit. The number of lamps lit in a home generally depends on the age of a family member this year.

Sometimes I follow the adults, sometimes I follow the children, but rarely I follow the elders because there are too many and it is unnecessary.

After placing a fixed number of lamps on a large porcelain plate and lighting them all, family members will first choose two lamps for themselves that represent their luck for the year and put them aside.

Even family members would compare and compete with each other to see whose lamp has the bigger, more vigorous, or whose lamp burns the longest.

The bigger, brighter and longer the lantern burns, the better and brighter your luck will be throughout the year.

Everything will go smoothly and you will be successful in everything you do. For example, you will do well in school, have good fortune in working, and have a good harvest in farming.

This thing is very important to the people in this place, and they believe in this statement very much.

If the lanterns are big this year, he will be happy for a long time. If he is unlucky and the lanterns are small, he will be sad for a long time.

Even when chatting, I will use it to brag about it.

It can be regarded as a kind of beautiful wish in people's hearts and some expectations for future life.

After you have placed your own lamp, you can then start placing the remaining lanterns in other places in the house.

It is important to ensure that the lanterns on the fifteenth night illuminate every corner of the house.

It is said that this bright light can drive away all the haze and unhappiness, allowing the year to be good weather, peaceful and prosperous.

In addition to the usual places such as the table in front of the central hall, on the altar in the center of the courtyard, and in front of the statue of the Kitchen God.

Like on various cabinets in the house, on top of the water tank and noodle tank in the kitchen, in various places in the granary, in the donkey pen, and in the pigpen. All dark places must have a lamp.

You even have to put a few lamps on the door, not only inside the door, but also outside the door.

Of course, firecrackers have to be set off to tell all living beings that the ceremony at home has been completed.

Naturally, wealthy families would set off fireworks and put on a beautiful firework show.

Fireworks and firecrackers are like signals. Once they stop ringing, children in the whole village will start to take action.

Today is the only day where I can go out and steal things without being scolded or condemned. This opportunity only comes once a year.

At this time, every household would open the door and wait for other children to come and steal lanterns, and at the same time send their own children out to steal lanterns from other families.

They would even tie up the house guard dog separately to prevent it from becoming a hindrance to the children trying to steal the lamps.

Even the most stingy person will become extra generous today, and may even welcome others to steal from him.

Of course you can't deliberately give it to these children. It would be better if you can have a battle of wits and courage.

The emphasis is on the word "steal", and this action is required.

In other words, you can turn a blind eye but you cannot be completely blind.

It is said that the more lamps are stolen from a home, the better and more prosperous the family will be throughout the year.

Of course, the more that are stolen, the better the cooking skills of the women in the family are, and the more delicious and popular the steamed rice dumplings are.

Children’s mouths are like rulers. They know exactly which food is delicious and which is unpalatable.

This is a fun thing that only children can enjoy. Adults would like to do it, but they are too embarrassed to do it.

Whether traveling in groups or alone, the village is so small that everyone will eventually meet on the way to steal lanterns, and even exchange experiences with each other.

How to steal? Which house is easy to steal? Which house is delicious? Which house is unpalatable and you don't need to go there? All these are accounted for.

Some children even steal food while eating, as long as the food tastes good.

If you think something doesn’t taste good or you don’t want to eat it for the time being, just take it home with the front of your clothes.

Every year on the 16th day of the first lunar month, you can always hear the sound of parents beating their children. No need to ask why. It must be because the children at home are too naive and have no brains, so they took the oil lamp from their clothes pockets.

This stuff can't be washed off at all, so the beating is not unjust.

But everyone just laughed at each other and it was over. Everyone has gone through this silly age.

There are also those who taste the food and then throw it away. Of course, these are children from particularly well-off families.

Those who know how to live will take other people’s lanterns home to feed the chickens and pigs, even if they are not tasty.

Of course, some other interesting things will happen on this special day.

For example, when the children were stealing lanterns, they accidentally set their cotton coats on fire. The more they tried to put out the fire, the bigger it got, and several of them were burned.

Or some people accidentally burn their hair, scald their hands, or have holes in their shoes.

Some even burned their eyebrows in strange ways. There is nothing these kids can't do.

For these children, the New Year would be incomplete if a few holes were not burned on their clothes, so they would naturally be beaten.

The new clothes made for the Chinese New Year already have holes in them before the Chinese New Year is even over. My childhood would be incomplete without being beaten.

Fortunately, the fire in the lamp is not big, so there is usually no big problem and it can be put out with a few flicks.

The more wild children would even go to the next village in groups after stealing from their own village.

Of course, the harvest at this time was average, after all, it had been stolen once by people from the same village, so there was almost nothing left.

But what does it matter? For them, the process of stealing often makes them happier and more fascinated than the result.

To put it bluntly, I just love to join in the fun.

Do you think today's event is over? No, there is another big event waiting.

This big event is a carnival for adults or young men who are about to reach adulthood. In the local dialect of my hometown, it is called "Dian Gao Gao Shan".

They would go to the top of the highest mountain around the village, pick up a lot of firewood, and build a big bonfire with the firewood, the bigger the better.

Climb to the top of the mountain before midnight and light it. The bigger the fire, the better, which means a prosperous year.

The villages would also compare and compete with each other. They all burned the fire on the top of the mountain, so everyone knew clearly whether the fire in your village was strong or not.

This will be something to talk about for the entire year ahead.

Generally, women in the family do not participate in this activity, but it is not that women are not allowed to go.