Manufacturing method of lantern bracket

The simple shape of a paper lantern is a cube or cylinder. It is best to make a frame with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins, and the joints are tied tightly with thin lines. If it is difficult to find, you can also use slender cardboard and bamboo sticks for barbecue. The firmness and elasticity will be lacking, but it is also a good decoration indoors.

Use iron wire as the keel support of lanterns.

Then cut out two disks of the same size from cardboard. Insert a thumbtack in the center of the site, and a candle can be inserted on the thumbtack.

It is necessary to cut a hole in the top plate so that the heat of the candle can be radiated.

In addition, the top plate needs to be made of iron wire, and the beams should be hung up, so that lanterns can be hung.

Then cut the thin colored paper into pieces of the same size according to the shape of the four walls of the keel. Wrap the outer wall of the lantern,

And is closely attached to the top plate and the bottom plate.

If it is a palace lantern, the keel needs to be carved with wood or a simple bamboo needle.

The outer wall of the lamp is not made of paper, but of yarn.

Lantern origin editor

Lantern is an ancient lamp. As early as the eighth century BC, in the Tang Dynasty, the reasons for using lanterns were recorded. There were lanterns in China after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns may have been invented after the Western Han Dynasty. The custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival originated in the early Han Dynasty, but there are also legends that Emperor Tang Ming played lanterns in Shangyang Palace on the Lantern Festival to celebrate the peace of the country and the people, and then tied lanterns. Accompanied by flickering lights, it symbolizes "the colorful dragon is auspicious, the people are rich and the country is strong", and the custom of playing lanterns is still widely circulated.

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.

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