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What are Tang Dynasty wedding lanterns called

This lantern is called a palace lantern.

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of the palace lantern, the wedding lights called the bride lamp (i.e., the palace lantern) is a representation of the wedding festivities, in addition to lighting, beautiful role, it is often also a symbol.

Tang Dynasty wedding in the groom to marry the bride, will write the groom's family name of the umbrella lamp as a guide, on the top will also be written on the male side of the hall, "two surnames married, a hundred descendants of thousands of grandchildren, generations of prosperity" and so on, after the marriage, the lamp will be hung in the male home of the ancestral ancestral shrine or hall.