What are the styles of lanterns?

1, walking horse lantern

Walking horse lanterns are common in the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. Candles are lit inside the lanterns, and the heat generated by the candles creates air currents that cause the axle to rotate. There are paper cutouts on the axle, and the candlelight projects the shadow of the paper cutouts onto the screen, so the image keeps moving. Because more on each side of the lamp drawings of ancient generals on horseback, and when the lamp rotates looks as if a few people are chasing each other, so the name of the horse lamp.

2, Guan knife lamp

Guanshu lamp is in accordance with the legend of the life of Guan Gong used the blue dragon crescent knife and made. It travels with carrying lamps and rabbit lamps, and has the symbolism of protecting peace. The custom of touring lanterns has a history of four to five hundred years. From the night of the 13th to the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the tour starts from the village of Qianmen and travels to all the four villages.

3, rabbit lamp

Rabbit lamp for the three heads side by side **** one, the center of the head is very large, commonly known as the "rabbit woman", the two sides of the head is smaller, so called "fine rabbit". Bamboo gabions for the skeleton, red, white and green paper paste, inserted in the wick, lit and carried away. Legend has it that some people are eager to have children, and the rabbit will give birth to a child as a symbol of the meaning of having many children and grandchildren, which has been passed down to the present day.

4, dragon lantern

Dragon lanterns, also known as the "dragon dance", is one of the folk lanterns and dance forms, popular in many parts of China. Dragon lamp before the dragon head, the middle of the body, the number of sections vary, but generally for the singular, each section below a stick in order to hold up. Each section is called a "dragon lantern" if candles are lit inside, and "cloth dragon" if candles are not lit. Dance, by a person holding a colorful beads play dragon, the dragon head with the beads turn, many other people raise a section of the same, up and down to set off, left and right dance, and to match the gongs and drums, very spectacular.

5, the Palace Lantern

Palace lanterns are made and used by the Imperial Palace and the government, hence the name. The earliest existing lantern is the Palace Museum collection of the Ming Dynasty lanterns. Palace lamp production is very complex, mainly with carved wood, carved bamboo, openwork copper for the skeleton, and then inlaid with gauze, glass or horn piece, above the painted landscapes, flowers and birds, fish and insects, people and other auspicious and festive themes. Top quality lanterns are also embedded with jade or white jade.