Making steps of primary school students' handmade lanterns

The steps for pupils to make a complete picture with lanterns are as follows:

Preparation materials: paper, glue, knife

1. First, prepare a piece of red cardboard and fold it in half.

2. Cut along the crease with a knife, as shown in the figure below.

3. Then prepare a piece of yellow paper and roll it into a cylinder, as shown in the figure below.

Finally, paste the red paper along the cylinder to make lanterns.

The origin of lanterns

There are many theories about the origin of playing lanterns. A widely circulated saying is that the custom of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty advocated Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, a Buddhist monk watched the Buddhist relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, so all the gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns that night.

Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's peace, people tied lanterns, symbolizing "lucky dragons, rich people and strong country" with flashing lights. Since then, the custom of playing lanterns has been widely spread.