Easy way to make colorful lights

The easy way to make colored lights is as follows:

1 Clean the outside of a white plastic bottle and remove its outer label and set aside.

2 Use windex to remove the glue mark.

3 Simply cut the bottle along the scribed line.

Colorful lanterns, also known as lanterns, lanterns are a kind of traditional Han Chinese folk crafts originated in China, in ancient times, its main role is lighting, by paper or silk as the outer skin of the lantern, the skeleton is usually made using bamboo or wood strips, and in the middle of the candles or bulbs, which become the lighting tools.

Chinese lanterns, renowned ancient and modern; Zigong Lantern Festival, renowned. The industrious and intelligent people of Zigong have not only dedicated the unparalleled well salt technology to the world, but also contributed the beautiful colored lanterns to mankind.

In the thousands of years widely spread annual festival lanterns on the land of China, Zigong lanterns will stand out, the collection of Chinese lamp culture style, won the "world's first light" reputation, so that the national historical and cultural city, with the "millennium salt capital", "Hometown of Dinosaurs", "South China Light City" is famous all over the world. Zigong region has a long history and distinctive characteristics of the annual festival of lights.

Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a New Year's custom of lighting, extended to the Qing Dynasty, that is, the "Lion Lights Market", "Lantern Festival"; to the early twentieth century, the gradual formation of festivals lanterns, and more sky lanterns, dragon lanterns, play lion lanterns, lanterns and other activities. Thus developed into a set of regional folklore and folklore of the festival reputation at home.

According to historical records, in the Tang and Song dynasties, Zigong area has gradually formed the New Year's lanterns, lanterns before and after the Lantern Festival. Zigong area in the Tang and Song dynasties, the New Year and Lantern Lantern, Lantern, folk acrobatics, juggling and other performances also appeared in the middle of it, y popular with the people watching the lights.

Southern Song Chunxi two years (1175), the famous patriotic poet Lu You had written in his "Qinyuanchun" wrote: "a goodbye to the Qin Lou, turn the eye of the new year, and close to the release of the lights," it can be seen that the Zigong area in the New Year's Eve, the release of the lights has been a customary folkloric activities. Of course, this is still a difference with the birth of the formation of the lanterns.

So, the Tang and Song dynasties should be the budding period or the initial stage of Zigong lanterns.