What is the difference between lantern color and lamp

"Kipsi lantern color" origin

"The first month of the 15th Lantern Festival", is the traditional festival of the Chinese nation, all over the country in this - a major festival, are to hang lights and colors, drums and music, all the people with the same music! There are palace lanterns, carp lamps, rabbit lamps, hexagonal lamps, fan lamps ...... and so on, generally called "colorful lamps", not the only Zhejiang Haining called "lamps color".

"Lights color" and "colorful lamp" in the end what is the difference? It is said that there is a lot to say here, the former refers to an artifact, the latter refers to a kind of art. Kip Lantern, its name has a long history. In the literature and history of such a record:

Kipsi, far away in the Spring and Autumn Period when called the Xia Shan, also known as the folder Valley, the end of the Ming Dynasty, the poet Zhu Zemai has "Qin time folder Valley City, flow for the Valley Lake water" verse, according to "Zhejiang Tongzhi draft" recorded: "Emperor Shi Huang traveled east over the Yangtze River, the evil of its potential Wang (read Wang). The water is also wide and big. The water is also wide, big. Rhyme will be"), make prisoners 100,000 people, digging dirt, change the long water for by boxing county." The rolling gorges and mountains cut open, so that the flooding of the flood, through the canyon from the southern part of the Huangdao Lake discharged to Placebo into the sea. Another edict said, "Examine the desirability of his land, and make the Qianshou to realize his own fields." (Han Shu). Emperor Qin Shi Huang abolished the well-field system and introduced the feudal system, allowing slaves with black cloth on their heads to cultivate their own fields, thus giving the main peak of the Xiaoshan Mountain the name "Jianshan". Slaves from then on out of thousands of years of cruel rule, gained personal freedom, all are happy and excited, have gathered to celebrate, some pick the green pine and cypress, frame tie color, some collection of withered branches and leaves, tied to the branches, lit after the formation of the "fire tree thousands of light, flowers and flames of the seven branches open," the splendid and spectacular scene, people sing and dance around the bonfire! The people sang and danced around the bonfire, celebrating together, which can be regarded as the ancestors of the most primitive "Lantern Race". From then on, by the boxing people will be Qin Shihuang worshiped as the God of the Gods of the earth and grain, every year on the eve of the beginning of the spring plowing - Qingming Festival, by the boxing people have to be held at the foot of the trial of the foot of the mountain to commemorate the grand gathering, burning bonfires, flinging fireballs, welcoming torches, dancing dragons, fireworks, etc., night and day, all night and day, the grand occasion is unprecedented. According to the "Ning Zhi Lianxin" cited Kong Lingfu "Huiji": "the collapse of the First Emperor, the people of the Eup (by boxing) carved wood for the statue of the ritual. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the governor of Huiji (now Suzhou), Wang Lang, who adhered to Confucianism, deposed Emperor Qin Shi Huang and abandoned the image in the river, which was then taken up by the river, and the people thought it was strange, so they set up a temple to worship it, and the temple was dedicated to the Great Yu (during the Sui Dynasty, during the period of Daiye (605-618 A.D.), the temple was moved from the trial of the mountain to the west bank of Gushui and was constructed on the side of the bridge.) According to this, Yu, Qin and the two emperors are worshipped together, the beginning of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, from a long time ago."

Later, at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, by the fist under the mountain (now in Yuhang County) of people with the bark, hemp fiber made rattan paper (known as by the fist paper, than the Eastern Han Dynasty's Cai Lun paper to be more than a hundred years earlier), so by the fist of the people to the gabion for the frame, outside the paste by the fist paper, but also drawing on the surface of the lamp, puncture holes, not only translucent but also beautiful, which is the present day "Kipsi Lantern Color This is the prototype of the present "Kipsi lantern color".

To the Southern Song Dynasty, the high Zongzhao Gong moved Lin'an (now Hangzhou), half of the country, in order to decorate the peace, Lantern has developed to a new peak, tie lights, race lights, enjoy the lights has become a trend, according to the "Wulin old story" and "Qianchun years of the record" and so on, at that time, into the Beijing tribute to the lamps, there are Fuzhou white jade lamps, Anhui Xin'an glazed lamps, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, clip gauze lamps, Changzhou material silk lamps, Suzhou, Luo Jin lamps, Hangzhou sheepskin lamps, and the light is a good example. Luo Jin lamps, Hangzhou sheepskin lamps and Kipsi 10,000 eyes Luo lamps and so on. It is each with its own special features, competing with each other. Lamp products in particular to the needlework of fine "ten thousand eyes Luo" the most strange, the Southern Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda "lamp market line" in the "stacked jade silk like a ghost worker, cut Luo ten thousand eyes of manpower poor": verse, pointing out that it is more than with light Luo, brocade cutting and tying of the brocade lamps are more fine, beautiful. When Kipsi lanterns tribute to Beijing, was selected as "lanterns boutique" and hung in Lin'an (Hangzhou), Fenglou outside the East China Gate, so the purple Kipsi poet Xu Baohan "Kipsichuan lamp market" poem has "Fenglou outside the East China Gate, won the false reputation of the non-yearly" sentence. From then on, "Kipsi lanterns" will be known far and wide. This is the origin of "Kipsi lanterns".