Eternal Street Lamp 800-word essay

A small town, an old man.

The town is very small, with only one main street.

The old man is already old enough, and the younger ones can’t even remember his name, “Seventh Master”, which is everyone’s official title for him.

The town has been very prosperous in recent years. Not only the population, but also the lives of every household are becoming more and more prosperous, so the town is very lively during the Chinese New Year. The town's lanterns are famous in Qili and Wuxiang, and they attract many people to watch the lanterns on every New Year's Eve. Some people say this is because the town has good feng shui, and this feng shui means that during the Chinese New Year, the main street is filled with street lights.

Street lights are a scene in the small town. On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the street lights are hung up high, row by row, string by string, illuminating the street all night long.

Master Qi himself can’t remember how many years he has been running the street lights, and the young people in the town can’t even tell. They just know that it is Master Qi who has been running the lights, as if he is the one who has been running the lights. It's a matter of course. When we were on the production team, someone would record work points, and some teams would provide materials for making lamps. Later, the production team disappeared, so Qi Ye hung up a box on the street. Whoever put some money in it would put some money in it, and Qi Ye would collect it. They are all used to make lamps. So this lamp belongs to everyone, and everyone takes good care of it.

As Master Qi gets older, there are more and more lanterns on the streets during the New Year in the town: lotus lanterns, watermelon lanterns, various animal lanterns, colorful bird lanterns, auspicious palace lanterns, and revolving lanterns. , pink reflects green, aqua blue reflects golden red. No one knows how many different kinds of lamps Master Qi has made, and no one knows why Master Qi has made lamps for everyone for so many years.

Master Qi is not a talkative person. He rarely talks except instructing people to hang up lights. People only know that after hanging up the lights, he walks back and forth on the street, talking to everyone. I looked at a lamp and looked at it again and again, looking at the people coming and going to look at the lamp, and looking at the brilliant lights on the street. He would occasionally squat down, wrap up his cotton-padded jacket tightly, take out the Hongtashan smoke he bought for two cents a box, and smoke one. As long as there was a person on the street, Master Qi would be there.

Suddenly one year, someone in the county knew about the lights in the town. During the Chinese New Year, a few people came and used a TV camera to take pictures of all the lights hung by Master Qi. They also said they would interview Master Qi , and another shot of how he makes these lights. The cadres in the town told people from the county that Master Qi's home was too chaotic because he had been a bachelor all his life and he was the only one who could live in his house. They called Master Qi to the mayor's office. The people in the county didn't ask anything from Master Qi, because Master Qi didn't like to talk much, and it would be useless if he did. Later, I heard that Master Qi was on the county TV station, along with his lanterns and the many people watching the lanterns.

The next year, a wealthy man in the town found Qi Ye and asked Qi Ye to pick up the money box on the street. He said that he would pay all the expenses for making the lamps and only asked Qi Ye to do so. Master Qi thought about adding his surname to all the lights, but actually refused such a good thing. In the end, the angry rich man said that he would turn off all the lights on that street on New Year's Day.

The stubborn Qi Ye still made his lanterns and directed the young people to hang lanterns on the street. When someone in the village found out about it, some people came to persuade Qi Ye and some went to give it to the rich man. say good things. However, no one could speak to the rich man, and no one could speak to Master Qi. Therefore, there was a secret layer of worry in the hearts of the people in the town. But Qi Ye still used the money collected by the villagers to buy things for making lamps.

The New Year has finally arrived, and the surface of the town is still full of auspiciousness. The streets are also full of lanterns hung by Master Qi. People see Master Qi, who has already bent his waist, walking back and forth on the street. As he walked, the grooves on his face appeared deeper and his brows became more furrowed. No one talked about it, but everyone was worried. More and more people were watching the lights, but the lights that had been lit for a while suddenly went out, and the crowd burst into curses.

I don’t know who suggested it, but people gathered together spontaneously and pooled their money to buy candles. The young people helped light the candles and put them into the lamps, and then, on the streets of the town, There was cheering and people began to watch the lights on the streets again.

However, this was the last time people in the town looked at the lights, because Master Qi left after a serious illness after the New Year. On the day he left, the streets of the town were full of The lamp he made himself. However, after that, the streets of the town became dark during the Chinese New Year. This darkness brought endless awkwardness to the people in the town, so they thought of Master Qi again and the street lights that once were immortal.