Handmade Process of Carp Lantern

The hand-made method of carp lanterns is as follows:

Tools: cigarette case, glue, scissors, rope.

1, cut the cigarette case first, it needs ten.

2. Make two fish heads first, fold them into this shape, and then stick the two pieces together. The trimmed vertical bars are bent inward one by one, initially showing the shape of lanterns. Then, take out another prepared paper cup and cut the mouth of the cup, leaving only the part about 2 cm at the bottom of the cup.

3. Stick one side, keep the other half, and stick the bottom. Then stick the vertical strips of the two paper cups one by one. After the bonding is completed, the lantern is almost shaped, and everyone can also play their own creativity and add some other decorations.

4. Fold four as follows.

5. Stick these four pieces on the fish head, as follows.

6. This is what it looks like after being glued.

7. Fold two more like this.

8. Then stick the two pieces together, facing the sticky side of the fish head. These are two sides that stick together.

9. Then turn around so that the plane of the fish head is facing you, and then stick two red triangles together.

10, make a spike in red.

1 1. Put your ear through this position, pull one end from the opposite side, as shown in the figure, and then stick it.

12. Glue two eyes.

13. Here is the fishtail. Fold it in half like this.

15, post it like this.

16. Glue the tail and make a fish lantern.

The role of lanterns:

The main function of lanterns is lighting. The outer skin of lanterns is made of paper or silk, and the skeleton is usually made of bamboo or wood, with candles or light bulbs inserted in the middle, which becomes a lighting tool. It is a traditional folk handicraft that originated in China, and it is hung in modern society more than festivals such as Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, adding luster to festive days and praying for peace.

The lamps and lanterns in the Han Dynasty are relatively mature. The famous Changxin Palace Lantern in the Han Tomb in Mancheng is a kind of cylinder lantern besides the commonly used lampstand, lamp plate and cylinder lamp. The interior is hollow, clean water, smoke and all kinds of harmful gases flow into the interior of the lamp from the beautifully shaped smoke guide pipe, and then are absorbed by clean water, which is extremely beneficial to the purification of indoor air.