Why do people in China like to make handmade lanterns?

The main reason for making lanterns is for lighting, and it is also a symbol of happiness and reunion. The significance of handmade lanterns: inheriting the traditional China culture and creating a strong festive atmosphere; Symbolizing happiness and reunion, lanterns were used for lighting in ancient times, and hanging lanterns in the streets and alleys of Mid-Autumn Festival represented the way to light up reunion. I hope the meaning of women's empowerment.

Every year when the private school (an ancient school) starts school in the first month, parents will prepare a lantern for their children, which will be lit by the teacher, symbolizing the bright future of the students, and it is called turning on the light.

In some areas, making lanterns on the Mid-Autumn Festival is an added bonus. The bride's family of a newly married girl will send lanterns to her on the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is not only to make your girl have a bright future and a prosperous life, but also to hope that the girl can continue to add to her husband's family. Because the pronunciation of "light" and "ding" is the same, it means that the population is prosperous and continuous.

cultural concept

lanterns in China are a combination of painting art, paper-cutting, paper-binding, sewing and other techniques. Among the lanterns made in ancient China, palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous. Lanterns are closely related to the people of China. There are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. After careful calculation, it was after the Qin and Han Dynasties that China had lights, and it was after the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty that there were paper lanterns.

China's lanterns are not only used for lighting, but also a symbol. Wu Dunhou said that he used to make bridal lanterns (that is, palace lanterns) to represent wedding celebrations. Bamboo lanterns announce that this is a funeral occasion; Umbrella lamp (word surname lamp), because "lamp" and "Ding" have the same pronunciation, which means that people are prosperous.

So, in the past, every family had a surname lamp hanging under the eaves and in the living room. Today, there are still two big lanterns in front of the head of the gods, which is the continuation of this custom.