What are the types of lanterns?

1, walking horse lantern

Walking horse lanterns ancient name coiled chi dragon lamp (Qin and Han), Xianyin candles and turn heron lamp (Tang), horse riding lamp (Song), Han Chinese characteristics of handicrafts, but also one of the traditional festival toys, belongs to a kind of lanterns. Commonly used in the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. Candles are lit inside the lanterns, and the heat generated by the candles creates air currents that cause the axle to rotate. There are paper cutouts on the axle, and the candlelight projects the shadow of the paper cutouts onto the screen, and the image keeps moving.

Because more on each side of the lamp drawings of ancient generals on horseback, and when the lamp rotates, it looks as if a few people are chasing each other, so the name of the horse lantern. The candles inside the lanterns need to be cut into small pieces, and when putting them into the lanterns, they should be placed correctly, not diagonally.

2, Guan knife lamp

Guan knife lamp is in accordance with the legend of the life of the Lord Guan used the blue dragon crescent knife and made. It and carry lamps, rabbit lamps together with the tour, there is a symbol of protection and peace. The custom of touring lanterns here has a history of four to five hundred years. From the night of the 13th to the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the tour starts from the village of Qianmen and travels to all the four villages.

3, rabbit lamp

Rabbit lamp for the three heads side by side **** one, the center of the head is very large, commonly known as the "rabbit woman", the two sides of the head is smaller, so called "fine rabbit". Bamboo gabions for the skeleton, to red, white and green paper paste, inserted in the wick, lit and carried away. Legend has it that this is someone looking forward to children eager to rabbit will give birth to children as a symbol of the meaning of more children and grandchildren, passed down to this day.

4, the palace lantern

Palace lanterns, is China's world-famous special handicrafts. Palace lanterns are mostly made and used by the Imperial Palace and the government, so it has this name. Palace lantern shape is very rich, there are four sides, hexagonal, octagonal, round beads, baskets, square victory, double fish, gourd, disk long, aiye, glasses, rings, and many other varieties, especially the hexagonal lantern as a representative.

Palace lanterns are also very complex production, mainly with carved wood, carved bamboo, copper skeleton, and then inlaid with gauze, glass or horn piece, painted landscape, flowers and birds, fish and insects, people and other auspicious and festive themes. Top quality lanterns are also embedded with jade or white jade.

5, dragon lantern

China is the hometown of the dragon, the Chinese people to the heir of the dragon. Dragon lanterns, also known as the "dragon dance", is one of the Chinese folk lights and dance forms, popular in many parts of China. The dragon is the first of the five mythical beasts, and dragon culture is the most important totem culture of the Chinese nation. The dragon lamp has a dragon head in front of it, and the number of sections in the middle of the body varies, but is usually singular, with a stick under each section in order to hold it up.

Candles burning in each section are called "dragon lanterns", and those without candles are called "cloth dragons". Dance, by a person holding a colorful bead play dragon, the dragon head with the bead rotation, the dragon body and the dragon tail of the person to raise a section of the same, up and down to lift, left and right dance and to drums and gongs to match, very spectacular. Since ancient times, the legend of the dragon is vast, the dragon has become a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese people's self-improvement.