What is the concept of lantern culture?

Lanterns are China's traditional handicrafts, in China has been two thousand years of development history, nowadays lanterns are not only a beautiful decorations, more is the inheritance of our country's cultural concepts, for the development of China's traditional culture provides a great help.

Chinese lanterns are a combination of: the art of painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, sewing and other crafts, in the ancient Chinese production of lanterns, to the palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous. Lanterns are closely linked to Chinese life, and there are lanterns everywhere in temples and in living rooms. Carefully projected, China has lamps after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns were invented after the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Chinese lanterns, not only for lighting, it is often also a symbol, Wu Dunhou said, he used to do the bride lamp (i.e., palace lanterns) on behalf of the wedding festivities; gabion lamps on behalf of this is a funeral occasion; umbrella lamps (the word lamp), because the "lamp" and the "ding" phonetically the same, implying that the population is thriving. Therefore, in the past, every family had lamps hanging under the eaves of the house and in the living room. The fact that there are still two large lanterns in front of the deity's ding-tao at today's welcome ceremony is a continuation of this custom.