Making lanterns English

Making lanternsEnglish: Making lanterns

I. Introduction to lanterns

Chinese lanterns, also collectively known as lantern colors, are an ancient traditional Han craft. After thousands of years of development, lanterns have developed different regional styles, and each type of lantern has a unique form of artistic expression. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang up red lanterns symbolizing the meaning of reunion to create a festive atmosphere.

Lanterns synthesize the crafts of painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, and embroidery, and are closely linked to the lives of Chinese people. Lanterns have become a symbol of festivity for Chinese people. Through successive generations of lantern artists inheritance and development, the formation of colorful varieties and high level of craftsmanship. From the types of lanterns: palace lanterns, lanterns, chandeliers and so on. From the modeling points, there are figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, and so on, in addition to the horse lanterns for people to enjoy.

Two, the origin of lanterns

Lanterns, is a kind of ancient lamps, as early as the eighth century AD Tang Dynasty has recorded the use of lanterns from. China has a lamp is 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.