The easiest way to make your own lanterns.

The easiest way to make lanterns is as follows:

1, prepare scissors, candles, a piece of red paper, red rope, and a waste food packaging box (cups and plastic sugar cans are also acceptable).

2. Empty the box. Today is Valentine's Day. The reporter cut two hearts, which are beautiful and romantic (you can also design them into your favorite patterns).

3. Paste red paper, write the word "Fu", make a hole in the edge of the paper box, and put a small lantern on the red rope to basically take shape.

4. Light candles, stir up lanterns with chopsticks, and then hang pony ornaments.

Lanterns, also known as "colored lanterns" and "lanterns", are said to have originated in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It has a history of more than 2000 years. According to Sui Shu's Le Ji, "On the 15th day of the first month in the second year of the great cause of Yang Di the Great (AD 606), a torch was set outside the terminal gate of the capital, which was listed as a stage and a stone. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Xiao put on lights for three nights. In the Song Dynasty, five nights were brightly lit, and Jinghua was immersed in carnival.

For more than 2,000 years, lanterns, as a unique folk art, have been constantly developing and innovating, and become a beautiful landscape of China folk art. Lantern is a traditional folk handicraft 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 generally made of bamboo or wood strips, with candles or light bulbs inserted in the middle as lighting tools. Influenced by China culture, lanterns are also quite common in Chinese-speaking areas in Asia and temples in many countries.