很多地方把腊月二十三叫做小年,石家庄把三十叫做小年,而在我老家——豫北一带,称元宵节为小年。过完大年没有几天小年就到了,对于孩子来说,小年比大年更热闹。小时候的豫北农村,电灯还没有普及,就是安了电灯也经常是没有电。一到晚上农村的街道漆黑一片,所以孩子们对灯是非常渴望的。由于当时比较贫穷,过元宵节父母一般不给买灯笼和烟花,孩子们为此想了很多的办法。刚到正月 In many places, the twelfth lunar month is called the small year, Shijiazhuang thirty is called the small year, and in my hometown of Yubei, it is called the Lantern Festival. After a few years Eve is over, and for children, the small year is more lively than the New Year. As a child in northern Henan Province, the lights have not yet spread, that is, the safety lights are often no electricity. The streets of rural areas were dark at night, so children were desperate for the lights. Because of the poorer people at that time, the parents of the Lantern Festival did not usually buy lanterns and fireworks, and the children thought a lot of ways to do so. Just arrived in the first month