It is also a festive lantern festival. The Spring Festival is that it declared once a year to draw a dot, called to a tail. It is also a day to eat, although the Spring Festival has enough, but enough, another round Glutinous Rice Balls, has a good tradition. So far, all to the satisfaction of all. The third and more important, the Lantern Festival lights, flowers, people's Mardi Gras, is taking advantage of the enthusiasm, the hustle and bustle of the scene, to you in my appointment in close, deduce a romantic Valentine's day "".
This year's Spring Festival came a little earlier, leading to the original should be in the school after the Lantern Festival, during the winter holidays and Spring Festival, as a child can not help but some disappointed, but this should be the meaning of the Lantern Festival as the end of the Spring Festival, so that students who go to school, Ann heart school.
In recent years, there are always the article said, now the young people only remember the western festival, and forget the traditional Chinese festival, take the festival for the festival, not many people will remember, and in February 14th the Valentine's day, many people remember. This is no way, because the traditional and the west is difficult to rub out what kind of spark. This year is very clever, the Lantern Festival and Valentine's day hit the same day, the lantern festival itself also has the elements of Valentine's day. It is said that in this year's Lantern Festival, the Civil Affairs Bureau tumbled shed, the marriage registration, because the two Valentine's day on the same day is rare for thousands of years, many couples are on a good sign, the day of registration, the wedding night, just let the family together for the Lantern festival.
Our house is the classic "south" family, even don't often go back in the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival is usually the night before go to the supermarket to buy a bag of frozen Glutinous Rice Balls, in the morning to eat a bowl of Glutinous Rice Balls even had a section. Lantern Festival this year, some of the different, mom and dad and a few friends about to go to a friend's house to eat, which makes me have a little hope.
More than 6 in the morning I woke up, this is my holiday to wake up the first time, I was wearing a pink pajamas, dressed in a white jacket, reaching across the living room, open the balcony door, with balcony door creak open, I had a cold the messy hair blowing more chaos at the same time, also blew still remain in my mind a trace of weariness, I went to the balcony and saw the sun rises from the East, but was a little gray clouds part, with emotion: "it is the end of the year the spring festival!" I went back to the room, change your clothes, my mother had finished breakfast, breakfast really is Glutinous Rice Balls, make me feel like a poet, back to the real world.
Not easy to wait until the afternoon, my mother and I went to the home of friends, when I got there at three in the afternoon to eat dinner, we seem to be too early, but early than late. People go to the kitchen, I am a person occupying the entire TV and all the snacks, nobody told me to grab, nobody said I. I watched the program of the Lantern Festival in Hunan TV station in previous years.
At 6 o'clock, the other guests had come, eat dinner, aunt do a whole braised bream, a pot of lamb, a bowl of Hunan Braised Pork...... There are other delicacies, are Hunan with authentic spicy dishes, people are full of praise, but for the fourteen year old me, they are too spicy, every mouthful to drink a mouthful of drink, I only boiled chicken and vegetables of interest, possibly because I was two years old Mom and dad settled in Guangdong life light taste, the taste of home early in my heart become blurred, ready to accept either course. I was one of the earliest fangxiawankuai, although there are Glutinous Rice Balls aunt said, but I have been heart a wisp of inexplicable sadness wrap up, to watch tv. The ego's two year old son Xin soon also come and I watched TV, he was the TV comedy funny laugh, but I can not laugh. Uncle suddenly raised a red notebook and said: "you see me and Xiao Fang's wedding, five years ago today, is our wedding day!" You are to be congratulated, festive atmosphere infected me, I began to have the TV show laugh.
Who can change the pace of life, because he is too fast, too bad, so many people can not return home, but the festival was able to keep him, although it can not stop him, but let him slow down, give us the rest of the time. This year's Lantern Festival is not the same Lantern Festival, gave me a lot of sentiment.
说起来元宵节也是个大节。一来它宣告一年一度的春节到此画个句点，所谓好好的收个尾。二来也是个吃节，虽然春节已经吃饱了撑的，但是意犹未尽，再来点圆圆的汤圆，有着一份传统的美意。到此为止，大家皆大欢喜。第三个更重要，闹元宵、赏花灯，民众恣意狂欢，有情人更是趁着热乎劲，喧嚣的场面，来个你依我依的约会亲密，演绎一个浪漫的“情人节”。
今年的春节来得稍微早些，导致原本应该在开学后才过的元宵节，在寒假期间就与春节一起过了，作为小孩子不免有些失望，不过这也应正了元宵节作为春节的句号的意义，让上学的学子们“安心”开学。
近几年总有文章说，现在的年轻人只记得西方的节日，而忘却了中国的传统节日，拿七夕节来说吧，没有多少人会记得过，而2月14日的情人节却有很多人记得。这也是没办法的，因为传统与西方实在是难以擦出什么样的火花。今年却非常巧，元宵节与情人节撞在了同一天，元宵节本身也有情人节的成份。据说在今年的元宵节，民政局挤爆了棚，来的都是婚姻登记的，因为两个情人节在同一天是千年难得一遇，许多夫妇都踩着好兆头，白天登记，晚上办婚礼，正好让家族的人聚到了一起过元宵节。
我们家是经典的“南漂”一族，即使是在春节也不常回去，而元宵节通常都是前一天晚上去超市买一袋速冻汤圆，当天早上吃一碗汤圆就算过了节。今年的元宵节有些不同，爸爸妈妈和几个朋友约好了去一个朋友家吃饭，这让我有了些许的期望。
早上6点多我就醒了，这是我假期里醒得最早的一次，我穿着一套粉色的睡衣，披着白色的羽绒服，走过客厅，伸手推开阳台门，随着阳台门吱吱推开，一阵冷风把我本来就凌乱的头发吹得更乱了，同时也吹走了还残留在我脑海里的一丝倦意，我走到阳台上，看见太阳从东边升起，但被些许灰色的云遮住了一部分，感慨万分：“又是一年春节的结束！”我回到房间，换好衣服，妈妈已经做好了早餐，早餐果然又是汤圆，让我诗人般的感觉，一下子拉回了现实世界。
好不容易挨到了下午，我和妈妈动身去了那个朋友家，到那里时才下午三点，对于要吃晚饭的我们来说好像太早了点，不过早到总比晚到好。大人们去厨房里忙活了，我一个人霸占了整个电视机和所有的零食，没人跟我抢，也没人说我。我看着往年湖南电视台元宵节晚会的节目，度过了一整个的下午。
下午6点多钟，其他的客人陆陆续续都来了，晚饭开吃了，阿姨做了一整条烩鳊鱼，一大锅羊肉，一大碗湖南扣肉……还有其他的美味佳肴，都是湖南带着辣味的地道菜色，大人们都赞不绝口，可是对于十四岁的我来说，它们都太辣了，每吃一口都要喝一大口饮料，我只对白切鸡和青菜感兴趣，其中的原因可能是我两岁就和爸爸妈妈定居在食味清淡的广东生活，家乡的味道早就在我心中变得模糊不清，模棱两可了。我是最早放下碗筷的，虽然阿姨说后面还有汤圆，但我已经被心中一缕莫名的悲伤包裹住了，起身去看电视。小我两岁的子鑫不久也过来和我看电视，他被电视里的小品逗得哈哈大笑，可我却怎么也笑不起来。叔叔突然间举起一本红色的本本说：“你们来看我和小芳的结婚照，五年前的今天，是我们结婚日子！”大家都予以祝贺，喜庆的气氛感染了我，我开始被电视里的节目逗笑了。
谁也改变不了生活的节奏，因为他太快了，太坏了，让很多人无法回到家乡，可是节日却能拖住他，虽然不能让他停下来，但能让他慢下来，给我们休息的时间。今年的元宵节是不一样的元宵节，给了我很多的感悟。
