What are the lanterns of the Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty?

There were various styles of lanterns for the Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty, and the lanterns carried in the hands of small children when they went out on the street, for example, were made of four materials: gauze lanterns, paper lanterns, glazed lanterns and tower lanterns.?

Many days before the Lantern Festival, people began to use oil paper, silk cloth, bamboo and flowers and other materials

to make a variety of lanterns. For example, light and transparent paper, parchment and gauze shades, which transmit light in all directions, appear soft and

misty; while metal and shell shades that are too translucent gather the light downward, producing a variety of different effects.

Flower lanterns have a long history of production, with the changing times, there are great changes in materials and shapes, paper, bamboo, satin, wood is very common traditional materials, plastic, cellophane, acrylic and other modern materials.

Types:

Chinese lanterns are a comprehensive art made of many techniques, many crafts, many decorative skills, and many materials, and there are many types of lanterns, including dragon lanterns, palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, flower basket lanterns, dragon and phoenix lanterns, prismatic lanterns, tree-ground lanterns, ceremonial lanterns, mushroom lanterns and so on, and the shapes are round, square, cylindrical, polygonal and so on.

Dragon lanterns, also known as "dragon dance", are one of the forms of Chinese folk lights and dances, popular in many parts of China. Dragon lamp before the dragon head, the middle of the body, the number of sections varies, but generally for the odd number, each section has a stick underneath in order to hold up. Those that have candles burning inside each section are called "dragon lanterns", and those that do not are called "cloth dragons".

Dance, by a person holding a colorful bead play dragon, the dragon head with the bead rotation, many other people hold a section of each follow, up and down to lift, left and right dance, and to match the gongs and drums, very spectacular.