source: Peninsular Intern Intern Anyan reporter Wang Meng Liu Peng
two old people pinched by Xie Yan Hua and Liu Yongchun. Left to right are dragon, flowerpot, kylin, Phoenix, and they are very cute.
knead the bean noodles, the prepared scissors, tweezers and other tools, two old people sitting on the Kang chat and sitting face light.
a regiment of hard bean noodles, two seventy man, a few scissors, brush, and then more than half a day, a lifelike dragon on the red column on the fourteen night of the first month, the dragon will be with dozens of different forms of "companion", to the big table, put into the ancestral hall, pour bean oil, plugged in. The light wick is ignited. On the 22 day, when reporters came to the village of Yang Zhuang village in Tian Heng Town, Jimo, Xie Yan Hua and Liu Yongchun, two old people were busy making the face lamp. In this small village, which still inherits hundreds of years of surface light custom, although the lantern has aroused many people's interest, the exquisite handicraft is in the face of the predicament of "broken generation".
[b] sends the memorial hall point face lamp to commemorate the ancestor [/b]
the face light popular in the northern area is the various forms of lanterns made of flour. The Lantern Festival is the light of auspiciousness, and it can drive the evil spirits to remove evil and remove the disease. In the village of Yang Zhuang village, Tian Heng Town, Jimo, there is still a custom of making lanterns on Lantern Festival today in the village of more than 800 families.
22 day, the reporter came to Yang Ge Zhuang village, 78 year old Liu Yongchun old man's home, she and Xie Yanhua, 70 year old this year, are sitting on the pit head kneading the face lamp. "From the beginning of my memory, the family was busy making these lights before the Lantern Festival after the end of the year." At the sight of reporters, two old people showed their skills to reporters very enthusiastically. Xie Yanhua said, from childhood to look at the family to make face lights, do not need to learn will also, from the age of 19 after marriage, she will make the face lamp every year.
"to make these lights, are lit in the ancestral hall." Liu Yongchun said, this is an old custom, in addition to the expression of commemoration, but also to the first people to report peace, and praying for the coming year peace, happiness, "before making face lights, point face lights, feeling more serious and solemn, now more is a kind of celebration, a new wife's first year in the first year in the family, also the light praying for blessing." .
[b] "the delicacies and delicacies" and the beast [/b]
in the West House of Liu Yongchun's old man, the table has already placed more than 20 large and small lamps. Among them, the most attractive ones are two lanterns of Xiang Longpan column, which are wrapped around a pillar about 40 centimeters tall. A dragon has Phoenix. A five colored Phoenix made by the old man is placed next to the dragon lantern. Besides the tail decoration, the whole modeling is basically made from the face. It is very vivid. The small face lamp is the unique "seafood" taste of the island city, the shellfish shell, lobster and other colorful miniature surface lamps have no palmar heart, only from the appearance, it is impossible to imagine that it is made of surface.
"small will be squeezed out in a few minutes, the most troublesome is the dragon." Liu Yongchun said with laughter that the two of them spent almost a day in coming out.
[b], on the first month of the
just turned black on the fourteen day of the first month, and all the lights were lit and lit for 3 days. Bi Yuansheng said that during these three days, both the day and night, the lights should be on. The ancestral hall was specially responsible for lighting up the lamp. On the sixteen day of the first lunar month, the soybean oil was no longer added. After waiting for the surface lamp to burn out, the natural lamp would extinguish naturally before the lamp would be removed.
[b] surface lamp can also be fried to eat [/b]
Xie Yan flower, the old man said with a smile, the face lamp material is bean noodles. Sometimes in order to look good or make the lamp seat, but also to use some radish to match, this year they prepared 20 jin bean noodles, still a little enough, already told the villagers and "reservation" some bean noodles.
after the Spring Festival, their old sisters began to make their own lights. They stopped working on the fourteen day of the first month, and made hundreds of large and small lights.
these lights are not just works of art, they can also be eaten. Xie Yanhua said that the surface lights are made from bean flour. The oil used for lighting is soybean oil. The color is also some food coloring, so it is still very hygienic. After the sixteen face lights were withdrawn on the first month, they cut the lantern into pieces and sent them to the neighbors after the sun dried. "It's all noodles, which can be thrown so, and the lamp needs to be brightened better if it is to be eaten."
[b] embarrassed old skills face "broken generation", and the apprentice is looking forward to new [/b]
with many other traditional folklore, the custom of Lantern Festival is facing the predicament of "broken generation". Xie Yan Hua, 70 years old, and Liu Yongchun, 78 years old, made two old men make their own lamps. Xie Yanhua has two daughters and a son, but only his son knows how to make a face lamp. The two daughters are not at all. Neither of Liu Yongchun's 4 sons can make a face lamp. "Today's young people do not even have a dumpling, let alone make a face lamp." Xie Yanhua sighed.
Bi Yuansheng said that there are about more than 400 families in the village of Yang and Zhuang village only with a family name, and fifteen of the face lights are done on the first month of the year, but on the whole, people who do face lights, especially those who do well, are getting less and less. One of the lights is done before the Lantern Festival. Many people do not love to learn. Many young people have already left the village to work outside. They don't get in touch with them at ordinary times. And it takes time to make face lights.
from production to eating, the Lantern Festival lasts about a week or so before and after the Lantern Festival. This folklore, which is popular in the Jiaodong area and now is small, is becoming less and more uncommon, but it still attracts people's eyes for more than one week. "Every year, people from other villages pay for our help." Xie Yanhua said that such "orders" they have been in contact with a lot, but few, to get too old to do too much, second to their own "output" is also limited, to the family with enough busy, they do not take this to make money.
two old men and women are also very eager to pass on their skills, but few people want to learn. But Xie Yanhua is now getting a female apprentice, which makes her happier. Xie Yanhua said that their craft was not confidential, and she would prefer to have more people to learn to make face lights.
[b] made light from the heart, no model [/b]
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Xie Yan Hua and Liu Yongchun did not go to school, no special study of art, the two of their handicraft is the real art of life. No need for any reference, pinch what you want to pinch.
now that we have entered the "studio" of two old people, we have to learn this five hundred or six hundred year old technology. At the beginning, the Kung Fu is on and on the face. Xie Yanhua said that the bean noodle made of noodles should be boiled with water, but the water should not be too large. Another essential material is soya bean oil. After the face is good, it is necessary to put some bean oil on the dough, and also put oil on the hand, so that it has better ductility and no sticky hands. A dough with a suitable hardness must have a hand tool. Knives, scissors, tweezers, toothpicks, "V" type iron plates and brushes are also indispensable.
the dough tools are in place, and two old people begin to teach journalists to make a simple lotus shape lamp. This lamp is used to fill the lamp and add it to the face lamp. And no matter how the handicraft is, it is the lotus shape that makes reporters unable to start. Despite repeated attempts, the reporters pinched out the more regular cuboid, or simply a cake.
while the two dough of two hands is forming, only two old men knead and knead right-hand, pressing on the pinch, a lotus shaped appearance will soon come out. Not only that, before the prepared scissors, tweezers, V type iron sheet "greeting", only about 5 minutes, a very delicate lotus lamp holder placed in front of the reporters.
lamp holder, you have to try it. The old man, Xie Yanhua, curled cotton with straw sticks, twisted into a light core into the lamp holder, and poured the sticky soybean oil into the lamp holder, and poured the lamp through the bean oil. "Soybean oil is not easy to spot, but it is not easy to extinguish after it is struck, unless there is a lot of wind." Xie Yanhua watered the wick of the soybean oil with a lighter, and after a dozen seconds, the wick burst out a slight crackling sound, and then a light smoke came out of the wick. After two times, the fire began to burn steadily. After the old man placed the lamp holder on a lamp, he was still studying it again and again. "Do you think it is better to put it here?"