How to make antique lanterns by hand

Handmade antique lanterns are as follows:

Raw materials: tripod, antique cardboard, glue, rope.

1, select the appropriate triangular frame.

2. Paste your favorite antique cardboard.

3. Glue between two triangular frames.

4. Fold all triangular frames in half to ensure that there are no gaps.

5. Add fixing ropes at the top and end of the three lucky boxes.

6. Such a beautiful antique lantern is ready.

The reason why the ancients liked to make lanterns on holidays.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Zhuang advocated Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, so he ordered that all the gentry and the people should hang lanterns in palaces and temples that night. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival of 1.

In ancient times, Taiyi was the noblest of the gods, even nobler than the Five Emperors. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed in gods very much. In order to pray for God Taiyi to bless the world, he ordered the construction of Taiyi altar in the southeast of Chang 'an and Taiyi temple altar in Ganquan Palace. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first month of every year, the court lights a large number of lanterns.

Various forms of lanterns set off Taiyi Temple, bright and mysterious. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty led hundreds of civil and military officials to bow down and pray. The whole court is filled with the breath of sincere prayer, which makes the custom of decoration on the fifteenth day of the first month deeply rooted in people's hearts and become a part of traditional folk festivals.