What are the styles of lanterns

The styles of lanterns are: walking horse lanterns, guan dao lanterns, rabbit lanterns and so on.

1, walking horse lamp

Walking horse lamp ancient name coiled chi dragon lamp (Qin and Han Dynasty), Xianyin candles and turn the heron lamp (Tang), horse riding lamp (Song), Han Chinese characteristics of handicrafts, but also one of the traditional festival toys, belongs to a kind of lanterns. Commonly used in the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. Candles are lit inside the lanterns, and the heat generated by the candles creates air currents that cause the axle to rotate. There are paper cutouts on the axle, and the candlelight projects the shadows of the paper cutouts on the screen, so the image keeps moving. Because more in the lamp on each side of the drawing of ancient military generals on horseback, and when the lamp rotates looks as if a few people are chasing each other, so the name of the horse lantern. The candles inside the lanterns need to be cut into small pieces and put into the lanterns in the right place, do not put them diagonally.

2, rabbit lamp

is an ancient traditional Chinese handicrafts, rabbit lamps for the three heads side by side **** one, the center of the head is very large, commonly known as the "rabbit woman", the two sides of the head is smaller, so called "fine rabbit". Bamboo gabions for the skeleton, red, white and green paper paste, inserted in the wick, lit and carried away. Legend has it that some people are eager to have children, and the rabbit will give birth to a child as a symbol of the meaning of having many children and grandchildren, which has been passed down to this day.

3, Guan knife lamp

It is in accordance with the legend of Guan Gong used in life and made into a green dragon crescent knife. It and carry lamps, rabbit lamps together with the tour, there is a metaphor for the protection of peace. The custom of lamp touring here has a history of four to five hundred years, starting from the night of the 13th to the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, starting from Qianmen Village and touring all four villages.

The origin of the lanterns:

During the Yongping period of Emperor Mingdi of the Han Dynasty (58-175 A.D.), when Emperor Mingdi advocated Buddhism, Cai Chuan returned from India with the Buddhist teachings, claiming that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the country of Moghul, monks gathered to worship the Buddha's relics, which was an auspicious time to attend the Buddha's service. Han Mingdi in order to promote Buddhism, ordered the night of the 15th of the first month in the palace and the temple "lighted table Buddha". Therefore, the custom of burning lamps on the night of the 15th day of the first month with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and Taoist culture gradually expanded in China.