Methods and steps of making paper lanterns

There are many ways to make handmade lanterns. Of course, I won't talk about paper-cutting art here. From my personal experience, a simple square lantern. I was born in rural Shandong. I remember when I was a child, we used to eat Yuanxiao and carry lanterns every year. In the 1980s and 1990s, the economy was not so good. I would make lanterns with my father every New Year. Let's briefly talk about how we make rectangular lanterns:

1, looking for materials, rural areas? In fact, the materials are very simple and easy to find. We are all carpenters at home, so we choose battens as lamp posts, find four small battens, recruit two thinner upper and lower timbers to do up and down, and then use tools such as wires, nails and hammers.

2. About making: First, we take care of four battens, then connect the upper and lower sides of the four pillars with small battens and jack them up with nails, thus becoming a cube; Then nail thin sawdust up and down on the newly made cuboid, so that the whole rectangular lantern frame comes out. Fix a hook on the sawdust above the lantern with iron wire, and it is convenient to jump with a long stick. Finally, stick it on the four sides with that yellow paper, and of course leave a small door for the place where the square candle goes in. Such a simple rectangular lantern is completed.

3. Finally, put the candle at the bottom of the lantern and stick it on the door. At that time, the paper was slightly translucent and jumped brightly with a stick. Of course, be careful not to make the candle too big, otherwise it is easy to burn the lantern.