Happy Chinese Latern Festival!

(Picture on the left is a pig latern photographed by my coun, Peny.)
Chinese Latern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first month on the lunar calendar. Usually Chinese New Year lasts for fifteen days from the first day of the first month ( on the lunar calendar) to Latern Festival. It is also the winter vacation for schools. I like the long holidays very much because it is a time to spend my holidays abroad and a time for family reunion.

This year in celebration of Latern Festival, the authority of Taipei City took 70 million to decorate these laterns in display for 4.5 kilometers along several main Taipei streets, offering an exhibition and display as well. But everyone knows after the festival, these laterns will be discarted as huge rubbish. What a tremendous waste! These laterns in exhibition will remind me of my happy memories for Latern Festival in my childhood. My older brothers would make a latern for me in honor of the special day. We children would gather together to have a nice walk along the roads in the village. Sometimes tragedy happened with the latern burnt down. If the fire got high, candles in the paper latern were always on fire as we had expected. So none of us would be sorrry for the burn-down. Tell you what........I would carry glutinous rice prepared by Mother in case that I would be hungry.