How to color lanterns

Lantern coloring steps are as follows:

Materials: white paper, paintbrush.

1, you can draw a circle with the help of props, and draw a long rectangle on the top and bottom of the circle. Once the shape of the lantern is drawn, and draw some floral decorations on the lantern and a tassel at the bottom.

2. Using a yellow colored pencil, begin to carefully trace a golden color on the top of the lantern. Next, gently swipe the same yellow color across the bottom tasseled portion of the lantern. Each strand of tassel is carefully colored yellow, echoing the yellow at the top of the lantern, creating a harmonious and unified hue.

3. In the middle part of the lantern, pick up the red colored pencil and start painting the lantern in bright colors, giving the middle part of the lantern a warm and festive look.

4, after a series of detailed depiction, the lantern coloring is finally completed.

Introduction and Origin of Lanterns

I. Introduction of Lanterns:

Lanterns, also collectively known as lantern colors, are an ancient traditional Han craft. After thousands of years of development, lanterns have developed different regional styles, each with a unique form of artistic expression. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang up red lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere.

Lanterns synthesize the crafts of painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché and sewing, and are closely related to the lives of Chinese people. Lanterns have become a symbol of festivity for Chinese people. Through successive generations of lantern artists inheritance and development, the formation of colorful varieties and high level of craftsmanship.

Two, the origin of lanterns:

Lanterns, is a kind of ancient lamps, as early as the eighth century AD Tang Dynasty has recorded the use of lanterns from. China has a lamp is after the Qin and Han Dynasty, there are paper lanterns and may be in the Western Han Dynasty after the invention of paper.

The Lantern Lantern custom originated in the early years of the Han Dynasty, but there are also rumors that Emperor Ming Huang of the Tang Dynasty in the Lantern Festival in the Shangyang Palace, Chen Lantern Shadow, in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's peace, before tying up the lanterns, with the flickering light, symbolizing the "colorful dragons omen Cheung Cheung, the people of the country strong," Lanterns of the wind is still widely popular today.