It's the New Year, so it's fun.
Everyone loves to watch dragon lanterns, adults and children alike. I grew up chasing the dragon tail. When I was a child, as long as there was a dragon lantern, I ran after it until the moment I turned it on, and the excitement could last for many days.
However, everything has its two sides, and the dragon lantern also has its disturbing Quan Yi side. The following are two accidents caused by the dragon lantern around me.
Accident (1)
1986, at that time, I was studying in a cram school more than ten miles away from Jinhua city and went back to school on the tenth day of the first month. On the Lantern Festival, it is said that Jinhua City will welcome dragon lanterns at night. Everyone talked excitedly about meeting in the city to see the dragon lantern, but I didn't follow for other reasons.
The traditional dragon lantern in Jinhua is a bench dragon, which consists of benches of one bridge and one bridge. Three lamp areas are fixed on the workbench, and there is a cover outside the lamp. The cover, also known as the lantern rack, is made of bamboo sticks, covered with cloth or paper, commonly known as the lantern shell, with candles inside.
The faucet is carved from wood, and many identical lights are fixed on the faucet. After being lit, it will form the outline of a faucet, which looks like a living faucet from a distance. The faucet has some weight and needs to be fixed on a special shelf. Under the shelf, there is a special object suitable for people to carry on their shoulders. When greeting the dragon lantern, two strong young people must walk on their shoulders in tandem, and 4~6 people are needed to help protect it, but only one person is enough for the dragon tail.
In addition to the faucet and the dragon tail, there is a bridge-by-bridge desk lamp in the middle. There are round holes at both ends of the bench, and wooden sticks are inserted in the round holes to connect the front and rear benches. When walking, the bench is carried on the shoulder and held in the hand. The length of the whole dragon lantern is determined by the number of desk lamps, which can be more than 300 bridges or more than 50 bridges.
That night, the students who went to the city to see the dragon lantern came back and said that something had happened to the dragon lantern. It was not until the next morning that they realized that it was really an accident.
At the entrance of Wuzhou Park, the people watching the lights were highly concentrated, causing people to trample on each other, causing many casualties, including my classmates.
He rested at home for more than a month before returning to school.
He said that Jinhua city was crowded with people who came to see the lights, and he was among the crowd. Somehow, the person in front suddenly gave a cry of surprise and hurried back. He was also forced to retreat, but fell on a person. Then someone fell on him. Like a pyramid, I was pinned down by many people, unable to move and unable to shout, but I didn't know what had happened.
Luckily, he only crushed his leg when he was rescued.
There is a saying in the dragon lantern called "opening a teahouse", which is not really opening a teahouse, but describing a dangerous situation when the dragon lantern is opened.
When the moving faucet stops for some reason (such as changing people or changing candles), because the whole faucet is hundreds of meters long, it takes some time to convey the stop message to everyone who welcomes the faucet until the whole faucet stops moving. In the meantime, people who meet the faucet behind it, including the dragon tail, still follow the original steps, which will form a joint force to push the faucet forward. At this time, the faucet has stopped moving. The bench dragons are connected with each other through a round hole, and suddenly they diverge to the side after being squeezed in the middle, which is beyond human control. Even the person who greets the dragon lantern has to dump it. If the crowd watching the lanterns is crowded, it will be very dangerous because of the strong inertia of the bench dragon. You can't return it if you want, because there are people behind you. It happened in a flash, and I guess I stumbled to the ground before I realized it.
That's how my classmate collapsed in the crowd. Someone is under him and someone is above him.
Accident (2)
The procedure of greeting dragon lanterns in rural areas is more complicated. In addition to two big gongs to clear the way, we need to find a good place to put spears on the road where the Dragon Lantern must pass (commonly known as Lantern Road) in advance. The sound of spears is soaring and echoing everywhere, accompanied by sparks flying everywhere.
I saw the spear at close range, and the deafening noise made people tremble. Later, when I heard that I was going to put a spear, I avoided it and covered my ears.
This spear is made of cast iron and has a sharp bottom. When discharging, most of it should be driven into the soil, filled with black powder, tamped with a wooden stick, sealed with a cork at the top, and struck with a hammer to make the cork tight and firm, and the ignition lead should be long enough.
There are strict rules for releasing spears, which must be held by two people, one for operation and one for guardianship. The selected site should be open, and a loud warning should be given before releasing the spear. It is forbidden to stand within 0/0 meter of Fiona Fang/KLOC.
That year's Lantern Festival was in the afternoon 1 1 later. I was so sleepy that I went to bed before the dragon lantern ended. At that time, the dragon lantern had not passed the road in front of my house, but my family was ready to pick it up.
"Bang", a violent explosion woke me up from my sleep, and I felt nearby. Then there was a loud cry, as if mixed with "help".
No, something happened.
"The gas bottle exploded" and the family ran out at once.
Judging from the crying, it should be next door to my house.
When I got dressed and arrived, a strong smell of gunpowder had not dispersed, and the scene was full of people. The scene was in chaos. Two people were lying on the ground groaning in pain. A big hole was blown out of the kitchen roof, and someone was making a phone call. Because of the panic, "120" was wrongly dialed as "1 10".
Before the ambulance arrived, too many cooks carried the injured two people back to back and took them to the hospital by private car.
Unexpectedly, what happened was not the explosion of the gas bottle, but the power of black powder, and two injured people were responsible for shooting.
They are waiting for the dragon lantern to stop at the neighbor's house (every household has to raise the lantern earlier, so the dragon lantern walks slowly). Neighbors are very hospitable, serving tea and cakes. They chatted while drinking, and there was a material needed for putting a spear into the laundry basket at their feet.
Explain that the shovel is temporarily loaded with gunpowder on site, so all the materials needed for the shovel are carried with you. The laundry list includes: cork, hammer, iron wire and black powder.
Chatting, I smoked a cigarette, and the ash accidentally shot fell into the laundry list. The unburned ashes melted through the tightly wrapped double-layer plastic bag in the laundry basket, detonating the black powder contained in the plastic bag.
reform
During the 20 18 Lantern Festival, Jinhua Sports Center held a grand dragon welcoming event. Four bench dragons participated in the performance in turn, and the citizens were seated free of charge.
Everyone sat in the high stands and watched the wonderful dragon lantern performance like a game. It is both civilized and safe.
Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 are respectively "faucet", "dish lamp" and "grinding lamp", all of which have strong local characteristics.