The Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival. On this day of each year, I go to my hometown in the country with my parents. It’s not that we regard it as a celebration, but because of a custom-to eat rice dumplings. The rice dumplings made by my mother are not as delicious as those made by grandma, so I don’t bother to make them.
The rice dumplings made by grandma are stuffed with leeks, diced meat and chili, and are supplemented with onion, garlic and ginger as a seasoning. They are fragrant and spicy, with a layer of outer shell. Deep fried, it tastes crispy. Because I have to go to school on weekdays, I rarely go back to my hometown, and I can hardly eat it. So every year I look forward to the Zhongyuan Festival and taste delicious rice dumplings.
In the evening, my grandma took a few white lotus river lanterns to the river, and I followed with a match. There are a lot of people by the river. Everyone holds river lanterns in their hands, one after another. Our lotus river lantern is not big, there is a small candle in the middle. After grandma lit the candle on the river lantern, she slowly put it down, whispered a name and said: “Come back, eat dumplings!” One after another , Put a total of four. I saw a lot of river lanterns floating on the river, but beside the small bridge, I saw a black lotus river lantern. I don’t know who put it on, or how different it is from others. Before I had time to ask, my grandma took me home. Grandpa set off a loud firecracker. When I entered the kitchen, I saw four rice dumplings in a large bowl on the stove. Grandma filled hot dumplings from the pot, and we started to eat. Grandma made a lot of rice dumplings. Everyone swept them away. The belly was round and big and satisfied. Although it was uncomfortable, the adults never allowed me to go out this evening, so I could only sway in the house obediently and then sleep.
Suddenly, a question popped up in my heart, so I pulled my grandma’s hand and asked, “Grandma, how did the Chinese New Year Festival come about?” Grandma is the best, it’s in my mind. She will help me answer some weird questions, whether it is right or wrong, she is willing to tell me.
“The Zhongyuan Festival is also called the Ghost Festival. It is said that a long time ago, the Lord Yan’s mother passed away and went to the Yin Cao Jifu, so it is indispensable to suffer from the torture of the eighteen layers of hell. The filial son couldn’t see his mother suffer, so on July 15 he actually let the kid who guards the cell secretly open the cell door and let his mother out. Unexpectedly, the kid in the cell took the opportunity to sneak out. , Ran to the world to harm the people. Some ghosts ran home and asked their relatives to ask for some money to go back to live or get the joints to be reborn as soon as possible. In this way, people call this day the Zhongyuan Festival. To commemorate, every household makes some rice Dumplings, wait until the ancestors come back to taste.” After grandma said, I laughed.
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“How can they taste, we eat all the rice dumplings you make.”
“You are wrong, the four lotus river lamps that grandma just put on are for ancestorsWe lead the way. If they come to the world in the underworld, it is difficult to find the way home without the river lantern. They will find the way back when they put the river lantern. Grandpa puts off firecrackers and they know the specific location of the house. The ancestors tasted rice dumplings without using their mouths, as long as they smelled them, they were full. “
I understand when grandma said that, but why do people still put black river lamps? “Grandma, why did you put the white river lamps, and there were people on the bridge just now. The river lamp, what is it for? “My questions are really one after another. Fortunately, my grandma is so temperamental, I was impatient to let me go to sleep when I was replaced by my mother. Grandma suddenly took the cup in her hand and slammed it to the ground with a tense expression. He turned his head and looked at me: “You really see the black river lamp. Go, hurry, get it up quickly, don’t go at home. “Grandma greeted my dad, and took a net bag and ran to the river.
After a while, grandma and dad came back in sweat. There was a black river lamp that went out in the net bag.” Why did you get back the river lantern from others? “I asked in a puzzled way.
“Oh, I don’t know who it is, it’s really vicious, I actually put a black river lamp. “Grandma scolded angrily.
“What’s the matter?” grandmother. “
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“Black river lanterns are not allowed on the Zhongyuan Festival.” Many ghosts can go home on this day, because the white river lamp guides them. The black river lamp is terrible. It guides those horrible evil spirits. It takes about an hour to attract evil spirits after the black river lamp is placed. Then it burns a lot of gold ingots and dark coins at home to buy them, and then sells itself The name of the person who wants revenge is written on the paper and burned together with the paper money. Money can make the ghost grind, and if the evil spirit takes the money, it will kill for the owner. If it is later, it is estimated that someone will die tomorrow. I don’t know who is so cruel and wants to kill people. After the grandma finished speaking, she sighed.
“Did we prevent this from happening?” I asked.
“Well, the river lantern has to be put on after seven o’clock, because the sky will get dark and the ghost gate will open. It’s less than eight o’clock now! “Grandma said.
“Is it really so scary?” “I was frightened by this kind of thing.
“Do you know how your uncle died?” A few days before the Mid-Year Festival that year, your uncle went to the vegetable garden to weed the weeds. Unexpectedly, he saw that the pigs next door ran out, and all the Chinese cabbage planted by his uncle was dropped. When my uncle got angry, he went to judge with the neighbors. Not only did they not apologize, they also said that the uncle was caressing. My uncle was angry, and the next day he saw several chickens from the neighbor’s house running to the door of the house, giggling and eating grains dried in the yard, so he took a hoe and killed the chickens, which happened to be seen. So the neighbor ran over to make a noise, and then moved his hand. Midyear Festival is here in two days, some peopleWhen I set the river lantern at night, I saw the black lotus river lantern floating on the river. That night your uncle slept well on the bed, and then suddenly jumped up and jumped on the bed and frightened your aunt. Then he ran to the top floor of the third floor and jumped down. “I didn’t know what was going on at the time. After a few years, a fairy aunt came to the village, and she would invite immortals. If a family member misses their loved ones, they can ask fairy aunt for help and ask her to do so. Your aunt I missed your uncle, so I found Xiangu. Your uncle’s soul is attached to Xiangu’s body to tell all this. But the neighbor’s family has already moved away.”
Grandma When we stopped, we all looked at the river lantern, and we didn’t know who wanted to do this terrible ghost-inviting thing.
“Grandma, that person hasn’t been invited this time, can he still be invited?” I asked.
“Yes, but I have to wait until the Zhongyuan Festival next year. I haven’t fished such a river lantern for several years. I don’t know the time of a year. Can you let go of the grievances. I will save a snack for the Mid-year Festival next year! “Grandma is a little tired and doesn’t speak anymore. Just washing his feet and grandpa went back to the room to rest, parents also went back to their rooms. I can’t sleep. Next year, I will look at the lanterns on the river with my grandmother, hoping to stop the things that hinder the happiness of the world.