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The simpler shape of a paper lantern is a cube or cylinder, and it's best to use bamboo branches or bamboo veneer that can be bent to form a frame, with thin threads tied at the joints. If you can't find them, long thin strips of cardboard and barbecue bamboo skewers can also be used, the degree of solidity and flexibility will be lacking, but placed in the interior is also a very good decoration.

Chinese lanterns, also known collectively as lantern colors, are an ancient traditional Han craft. Originated more than 2100 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, every year before and after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang up red lanterns to symbolize the meaning of reunion, to create a festive atmosphere.

The lantern has since become a symbol of festivity for the Chinese. Through successive generations of lantern artists inheritance and development, the formation of colorful varieties and high level of craftsmanship. From the type: palace lanterns, gauze lamps, chandeliers and so on. From the modeling points, there are figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, etc., in addition to the horse lanterns for people to enjoy.

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Lanterns, is a kind of ancient lamps, as early as the eighth century AD Tang Dynasty has recorded the use of lanterns from. China's lamps are after the Qin and Han Dynasty, there are paper lanterns and may be in the Western Han Dynasty after the invention of paper. Lantern Lantern custom originated in the early Han Dynasty, but there are also rumors that the Tang Emperor in the Lantern Festival in the Shangyang Palace, the big Chan Lantern, is to celebrate the national prosperity and people's peace, before tying the lanterns, by flickering light, symbolizing the "colorful dragons omen good luck, the people of the country," lanterns of the wind is still widely popular today.