How to make lanterns on Lantern Festival? Simple and common materials, preferably with pictures, crab crab, crab crab! ! !

Paper lanterns, wire racks, colored paper, scissors, glue, small colored lights, Chinese knots, poles.

1. Making lampshade: unfold the paper lanterns prepared in advance, insert them into the wire rack, and hook the rings in the lanterns at the buckles at both ends of the wire rack.

2. Ribbon-cutting paper: Choose a piece of colored paper and cut it into a circle with uniform size for use.

3. Sticking colored paper: Stick round colored paper on the lower edge of the lantern. After sticking to the middle of the lantern, stick the lantern upside down until the whole lantern is stuck.

4. Install colored lights: fix small colored lights on the wire frame and tie Chinese knots.

5. Finally, put the pole on, and a cool lantern will be made.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival and one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival.

Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.