Simple recipe for Lantern Festival lanterns

Method:

1. Before starting to make, you need to prepare some basic materials. The recommended materials here are bamboo sticks, paste, copy paper and crepe paper, double-sided. Adhesive tape and the like can also come in handy.

2. Prepare several bamboo sticks of equal length. Cut off the pointed ends of both ends of the bamboo skewers and tie them together with cotton thread as shown in the picture.

3. Then wrap and fix with paper tape.

4. Make four square frame structures. The structure of these frames is the basis for making Lantern Festival lanterns later.

5. Then use the four frames and continue to add more bamboo sticks, which are also fixed with paper tape to form a basic frame of the Lantern Festival lantern.

6. Then paste crepe paper or copy paper, so that the basic configuration of the Lantern Festival lantern has been revealed.

7. Color it and add a small candlestick inside, and your beautiful Lantern Festival lantern is complete.

The lanterns originated from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty setting up an altar in the palace to worship the sun god, the most noble of the gods at that time, on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Since it was held all night long, lanterns had to be lit all night long. This was the beginning of the Lantern Festival; After Buddhism was introduced to China from India, due to the combination of Taoist magic and the Buddhist piety of lighting lanterns to worship Buddha, every night on the 15th day of the first lunar month, urban and rural areas were brightly lit, and nobles and common people hung lanterns, forming a unique custom of combining Chinese and Western styles.