Quanzhou lanterns lanterns classification

Quanzhou lanterns on its production process, is divided into three categories:

One, the color tie lamp. Lantern artists with paper twists will be tied to the first gabion into the skeleton of the lamp, the cut paper or silk cloth sprayed with water and tautly pasted on the skeleton, pasted on the lace, tracing the pattern. Hanging silk spikes will become a colorful tie lamp.

Two, carved paper lamp. The first creator of this lamp is Quanzhou paper master Li Yaobao, lanterns, all the patterns are their own design, their own carving knife in the cardboard carved out. This lamp does not use the skeleton, all carved with a good pattern of cardboard spelled out, so it is called carve paper lamp, after he was in these hollowed out patterns within the glass wire, to create a beautifully carved paper material silk lamp.

Three, needle-pricked boneless lamp. This lamp pattern is all with a steel needle in the making of the paper densely pricked out, the light source from the pinhole through, appear exquisite, bright and dazzling.

The past and present life of the thousand-year-old lanterns reflect the ancient city.

Quanzhou lanterns are famous for her unique paper carving, needlepoint technology and material silk mounting techniques.