Horse lantern production method

Walking horse lantern production method is as follows:

(1) the red paper cut into one side of a circle as shown in the picture, the square is 36 × 14CM, the diameter of the circle 12CM, the square for the cylinder, the round for the top (wind wheel). Cut one end of the cylinder into a number of small teeth, glue, in order to stick the lid. For the wind wheel on the top cover: cut out 8 small windows and doors in the center of the round paper, with each window and door half-open in the same direction.

(2) After making it, glue it on the cylinder. Use thin wire as a support, make a double ring on the lamp bulb, the tip of the top cover in the center of the circle, in order to be durable, the center of the circle embedded in the mother of pearl buckle as a bearing. Cut and paste a picture of a galloping horse. You can also use colored pencils to draw horse graphics.

Walking horse lanterns ancient name coiled chi dragon lamp (Qin and Han Dynasty), Xianyin candle and turn the heron lamp (Tang Dynasty), horse riding lamp (Song Dynasty), Han special crafts, but also one of the traditional festival toys, belongs to a kind of lanterns. Commonly used in the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. Because the lanterns seem to be several people chasing each other, they are also used as a metaphor for things that go back and forth. In traditional Japanese literature, the word "lantern" is the seasonal word for summer.

Candles are lit inside the lanterns, and the heat generated by the candles creates air currents that turn a wheel. There are paper cutouts on the wheel, and the candlelight projects the shadows of the paper cutouts onto the screen, and the image keeps moving. Because more on each side of the lamp drawings of ancient generals on horseback, and when the lamp rotates it looks as if a few people are chasing each other, so it is called the horse lamp.

Heating the air, resulting in airflow, and airflow to promote the rotation of the axle, according to this principle caused by the lamp is the horse lamp. The invention of the lantern, as late as the Song Dynasty. Song dynasty WuZiMu's work "dream sorghum record" about the southern song dynasty capital city of lin'an night market, has pointed out that there are trading horse lamp. Zhou Mi "old story of wulin" in the description of the Lin'an lamps also said: if the sand play shadow lights, horse riding characters, rotating as flying. Visible, walking horse lamp in the Southern Song Dynasty has been extremely popular.