What does the lantern mean?

Carousel means that when people are dying, they usually look back on their life as quickly as watching a movie. At the same time, lanterns are one of the traditional holiday toys and belong to a kind of lanterns.

Lantern, also known as lanterns and fairy candles, is a characteristic handicraft in China and one of the traditional holiday toys. Common in Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. It is made of bamboo, braided with horse's head and ponytail, covered with brightly colored paper or silk, and lighted with candles. When the candle burns, the airflow makes the paper-cut of the axle rotate, and the paper-cut image is projected onto the screen by candlelight, and the image is constantly changing.

15 Lantern Festival in the first month, hanging lanterns is a folk custom, and lanterns are one of them. Most of them are in the shape of palace lanterns, with paper-cutting sticks inside, and the patterns drawn immediately are pasted on them. After burning the lamp, the hot air smoked, the paper spoke turned, and the image of people chasing things for a change appeared on the lamp screen. There were lanterns in Song Dynasty, which were called "riding lanterns" at that time.

Production principle:

The heated air causes airflow, which drives the axle to rotate. A lamp made according to this principle is a lantern. The invention of lanterns was in the Song Dynasty at the latest. When Wu's Meng Lianglu mentioned the night market in Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, he pointed out that some of them bought and sold lanterns.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Xie Zongke said in a poem: "The soaring wheel rides around the city that never sleeps, the wind blows over the idol, and the frost hoofs are silent." Night defeated Xianyang fire, Wu Chong Chibi soldiers; I also remember that when the saddle was carved, the platform broke the moon. " Because there are many pictures of ancient military commanders riding horses on all sides of the lamp, it seems that several people are chasing it when the lamp rotates, so it is named lantern.