Method for make Mid-Autumn Festival handmade lanterns

The manufacturing method is as follows:

1. Prepare a square piece of colored paper or red paper and fold the diagonal pairs into triangles.

2. Starting from the diagonal folded side, use scissors to cut out some patterns along the edge, which can be flowers, stars, the moon, etc. Be careful not to cut to the diagonal edge.

3. Open the paper, fold the other diagonal line in half, flatten it by hand along the cut pattern line, and let it unfold naturally.

4. Glue or tape the intersecting parts of the diagonal lines of two triangles together to form a cylinder.

5. Cut a small hole at the top and bottom of the cylinder for threading or inserting rope.

6. Insert a bunch of candles or LED lights at the bottom of the lantern to light the lantern.

7. Pass the string or silk thread through the small hole at the top of the lantern and tie a knot to fix it.

What are handicrafts?

Manual refers to the mass production of non-mechanical equipment but manual production. In the early stage of industrialization, handicraft industry once became synonymous with low productivity and uneven quality. However, in the highly developed era of contemporary industrial production, people are increasingly tired of undifferentiated and distinctive products produced by factory assembly lines, and handmade products have regained their vitality.

The word handcraft comes from the biography of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi and Sun Xiuchuan: "First, thousands of workers in Ke County were sent to Jianye."