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The feeling of making lanterns

Lantern, also known as lantern, is a traditional folk handicraft originating from China, which has both life function and artistic characteristics. It usually takes paper or silk as the outer skin, bamboo or wooden strips as the skeleton, and candles or light bulbs are inserted in the middle. In ancient times, it was mainly used for lighting. In modern society, it is hung more than the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other festivals, adding luster to festivals and praying for peace.

How to create a bustling holiday landscape in an era without electricity? This can not beat our clever ancient people in China. China's intangible cultural heritage-Lantern color is the representative of traditional holiday landscape. On the occasion of the holidays, Beijing can't help the night market, and the streets and alleys are brightly lit. "There are endless lights in the four miles." Jade floor lamp, lotus lamp, hydrangea lamp, fish lamp, rabbit lamp ... Firewood and silver flowers are everywhere. If you enter the city that never sleeps, this is ancient times. People treat the romance of festivals. When I was a child, it was the happiest thing in children's memory to go to the Confucius Temple for the Lantern Festival, buy a rabbit lamp and drag it down the street proudly. Due to the epidemic, the Lantern Festival has not been celebrated for many years, and there is no festive atmosphere in the Lantern Festival.

Do you want to have a ceremonial Lantern Festival this year and make a beautiful lantern yourself?

With this small, delicate and lovely rabbit lantern,

You are the cleverest boy in the alley.