Handmade lantern making method

Handmade lantern making method is as follows:

1 First cut the color paper into circles of the same size and fold them in half.

2 Then draw two horizontal lines on the yellow colored paper, draw vertical lines with a pen at equal distances in the middle, fold the round paper, glue at the crease, and stick it on the vertical lines in turn;

3 Then stick all the circles, subtract the excess paper, glue on one side, and roll it up to form a circle.

4Finish by gluing a spike at the bottom, a long piece of pink paper on the spike and at the top to decorate it a bit, and gluing on a carrying handle.

Chinese 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 linked to the lives of the 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. From the type: palace lanterns, gauze lamps, chandeliers and so on. From the modeling points, there are figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, etc., in addition to the horse lanterns for people to enjoy.

Lanterns, is a cage-shaped lamps. Its outer layer of thin gimlets or wire and other skeleton, and masked with paper or gauze and other transparent things, inside the light candle. For lighting, decoration or play. Lanterns synthesize the painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, stabbing sewing and other crafts, and the Chinese people's life is closely linked to the temple, the living room, everywhere there is the figure of the lantern.

Song Book-Wu Di Ji: "bed head with soil place, wall hanging Ge lanterns."

Yuan Wuhan Chen? Sheng Jin Ge (The Golden Pavilion), Part 3: "Coco's my lantern went out just before I reached the door, where to ask for fire to burn him?"

Saying Yue Quan Zhuan (说岳全传)第十一回："Another small second who walks the hall, holding a lantern, high up in the air to send for the examination."