Lighting has become an indispensable thing in our daily life. We need it everywhere, we can see it everywhere, street lamps, neon lights, searchlights ... without it, the night will be dark.

It was not until China entered the 2 1 century that bright electric lights were installed in every household of people of all ethnic groups in China.

When my grandfather lived, the lighting was far less than it is now. At that time, every household would light a small oil lamp every night. Actually, a small oil lamp is not a lamp. It just uses a small bowl, pours a little cooking oil, and then uses toilet paper to twist a wick to light it, giving off a little light. People do things and read books in dim light. When the breeze blows, the lights will shake and the figure will shake when it is reflected on the wall.

Grandpa was much better in those days, when there were foreign oil lamps. There is a cover on the foreign oil lamp and the bottom is glass, which can hold a lot of foreign oil. Insert a long wick into the hole of the cover and light it with a match. Foreign oil lamps are much brighter than small oil lamps, which can be said to be its upgraded products, but there are also some shortcomings. When it burns foreign oil, it will produce thick black smoke. When I got up the next day, my nostrils were all black and gray.

You must think that my father had electric lights when he was a child, but he didn't. Our village was electrified very late, and it was not electrified until 1992. The village next to us is an advanced demonstration village in the province. Electricity was connected as early as the 1960s, when my grandfather was a teenager.

In the era I live in, whenever night falls, all kinds of colorful lights light up one after another, and I feel that I have entered the fairy tale world. The flowing pattern on the wall, the jumping reflection by the lake and the rotating beam in the sky are the world of light and the ocean of light. We play games when we turn off the lights, read books under eye protection lights, and sing loudly under colorful lights ... childhood ideals fly and soar under the lights.

Great changes have taken place in the motherland. From the old man's small oil lamp to grandpa's foreign oil lamp, and then to the electric lamp that my father owned only when he was 20 years old, the upgrading of lighting also represents the great changes in China in the past 60 years, and the future of our motherland is brighter, brighter and more brilliant!