The simplest and most beautiful way to make lanterns.

Simple and beautiful ways to make lanterns are as follows:

1. Material selection: iron wire, plastic tube (drinking straw), bamboo strips, colored paper or rice paper.

2. Cutting: Cut the straw or bamboo strips into the required length, depending on the size of the lantern. If you use iron wire, you can directly fold it into your favorite shape.

3. Binding the skeleton: Use single-sided adhesive tape to bind the intercepted materials to the skeleton of the lantern.

4. Making the lamp body: cut the length and width of the lantern skeleton with colored paper and rice paper or golden rice paper, and then you can design your own patterns. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting are all acceptable. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns.

If you are not good at calligraphy and painting, you can find some paper-cut patterns you like, draw them on the copybook with a piece of thin paper, carve them with scissors or a knife, use white rice paper as the lamp body, and then paste the paper-cut patterns, so that candlelight or light will be mapped out from the hollowed-out place, which is quite beautiful.

Lantern, also known as lantern. Lantern is a traditional folk handicraft of Han nationality which originated in China. In ancient times, its main function was lighting. The outer skin of lanterns is made of paper or silk, and the skeleton is usually made of bamboo strips or wooden strips, with candles or light bulbs inserted in the middle to become lighting tools. Influenced by the culture of China, lanterns are also quite common items in temples in Asian Chinese areas and many countries.

Lantern is a cultural product of Chinese traditional agricultural era, which has both life function and artistic characteristics. Lantern is an important entertainment culture of Han nationality for thousands of years. It rewards God and entertains the public. It not only has the function of "Nuo opera" to reward the gods, but also has the value of entertaining people. In modern society, it is hung more than festivals such as Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, adding luster to festive days and praying for peace.