I'm still new to learning about these things, but is the viewpoint that a particle is a field excitation sort of the thing about starting with a lattice in the

I'm still new to learning about these things, but is the viewpoint that a particle is a field excitation sort of the thing about starting with a lattice in the ground state with a field defined on the points of the lattice, then some excitations happen which cause the field to enter a particular "mode". This mode is the particle?