homemade lanterns tutorial simple

Homemade lanterns tutorial simple as follows:

1, one of the cardboard cut into an even number of strips, pay attention to the ends do not cut, and then in the ends of the double sided tape, and then the double sided tape will be torn off, will be stuck in another piece of cardboard has not been cut on the cardboard.

2, and then the cardboard rolled into a tube, the two ends are glued together, and then a prepared thin strip of paper glued to the top of the lantern, easy to hang.

3, and finally to the lantern glued to the tail, as shown in the picture below, here, the beautiful lanterns are ready.

A, lantern

Lanterns, also known as lanterns, a traditional folk crafts, both functional and artistic features. It is usually made of paper or silk as the outer skin, bamboo or wood to make the skeleton, and put a candle or light bulb in the center. In ancient times, it was mainly used for lighting, but in modern times, it is mostly hung on festivals such as Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival to add light and color to the festivals and pray for peace.

Lanterns are the Chinese people for thousands of years the important entertainment culture, both "Nuo opera" to pay God's function, but also the value of entertainment. Influenced by Chinese culture, lanterns in the Asian Chinese region, many countries in the temple is very common.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Lantern Festival customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lanterns prevailed, and inherited in later generations. And the first month of the 15th, and is the annual lantern fireworks climax. So the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights", before the arrival of the first month of the fifteenth, the streets are full of lanterns, flowers everywhere, the lights swaying, to the night of the first month of the fifteenth to reach a climax.

Second, the Lantern Festival Lantern Legend

A long time ago, a lot of fierce birds and beasts, all around the harm to people and livestock, there is a bird of God because of the lost and landed on earth, but accidentally by the hunters were shot. The emperor was so angry that he ordered his soldiers to come to earth on the 15th day of the first month and set fire to everything on earth. The daughter of the emperor was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see the common people suffer innocently, so she quietly told the news to the people. When the people heard about it, they were so frightened that they did not know what to do.

At this time, an elder suggested that on the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth days of the first month, every house should be decorated with lanterns and firecrackers to confuse the Heavenly Emperor. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor of heaven looked down and found a red light on earth, ringing the sky, for three consecutive nights, thinking that the fire was burning, the heart is very fast, people thus save their lives and property. Since then, every first month of the fifteenth, are hanging lanterns, fireworks to commemorate this day.