The process of making lanterns

The process of making lanterns is as follows:

1. Prepare a rectangular piece of white paper and draw your favorite picture on it.

2. Fold the white paper like a folding fan, with the front facing outwards.

3. Unfold the folded paper to form a cylinder and stick the seam with glue. It's simple.

4. Put a base at the bottom of the column, fix it on the column with glue, and put a small candle on the base.

5. Put the cover on the top of the cylinder and fix it.

Put a rope and a small stick on it, so that you can lift the lantern.

7. Light the candle and the lantern will be ready.

Lantern, also known as lantern color, is an ancient traditional handicraft of Han nationality in China, which originated in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern combines painting art, paper cutting and other techniques, including palace lantern and gauze lantern. From the modeling point of view, there are figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, lanterns for appreciation.

Every year around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hang red lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere. Lantern in China combines painting art, paper cutting, paper binding, sewing and other techniques. Palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous lanterns made in ancient China.

Lanterns are closely related to the people of China. There are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. After careful calculation, there were lanterns in China after Qin and Han Dynasties and paper lanterns after the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In China, lanterns are not only used for lighting, but also a symbol. Wu Dunhou said that he used to be a bride's lantern (that is, a palace lantern) to represent the wedding celebration.