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How to install red lanterns

Large red lantern installation method is as follows:

1, the first lantern from the top to the bottom of the pressure, hear the sound of the snap is fixed.

2, then turn the lantern over, press the tassel base, look at the snap position, rotate.

3, the last turn to install a lantern on the top, then rotate into place, on the base is installed, to ensure that the yellow spike is natural down, do not install the opposite.

4, and then press the light bulb hanging in the front door can be.

The origin of lanterns:

Lanterns, also known as lantern color, is an ancient Chinese traditional Han crafts, originated more than 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty. Chinese lanterns synthesize: the art of painting, paper-cutting, paper tying, stabbing and sewing, etc. Among the lanterns made in ancient China, palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous. Lanterns are closely linked to Chinese people's lives, and there are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms.

From the stylistic point of view, there are figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc., and there are also horse lanterns designed for enjoyment. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang up red lanterns to symbolize the meaning of reunion, to create a festive atmosphere. Carefully projected, China has a light is after the Qin and Han Dynasty, there are paper lanterns and paper invention in the Eastern Han Dynasty.