Required materials: art knife, cardboard, adhesive tape.
1, take a square pink cardboard.
2. Cut into two rectangles, one big and one small.
3. Fold the left and right sides of the big rectangle inward, and then fold it in half.
4. Cut out the lantern with scissors.
5. Stick the double-sided adhesive tape on both sides of the small rectangle.
6. Stick it on the inward folded part of the big rectangle.
7. Take a piece of blue colored paper and cut it into two long strips for decoration.
8. In this way, the handmade lanterns are finished.
Cultural concept
Lantern is an important part of China traditional culture. Whether in the old days or now, hand-tied lanterns not only set off the festive atmosphere of the festival, but also gave people more inspiration to pray and pinned people's good expectations for health, peace and longevity.
Lantern in China combines painting art, paper cutting, paper binding, sewing and other techniques. Palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous lanterns made in ancient China. In China, lanterns are closely related to people's lives. There are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. After careful calculation, there were lanterns in China after Qin and Han Dynasties and paper lanterns after the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Lanterns in China are not only used for lighting, but also a symbol. Wu Dunhou said that he used to make bridal lanterns (that is, palace lanterns) to represent wedding celebrations; Bamboo lanterns announce that this is a funeral occasion; Umbrella lamp (word surname lamp), because the pronunciation of "lamp" and "ding" is the same, indicating that people are prosperous. Therefore, in the past, every household had a surname lamp hanging under the eaves and in the living room. Today, there are still two big lanterns in front of God's head, which is a continuation of this custom.
Lanterns have other meanings besides lighting. Every year when a private school (an ancient school) starts in the first month, parents will prepare a lantern for their children, which will be lit by the teacher, symbolizing the bright future of the students. It's called "turning on the light". Later, it evolved into the custom of carrying lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Because the pronunciation is similar to "Tianding", lanterns are also used to pray for children. In the Japanese occupation era, patriots painted folk stories on lanterns to teach their children and grandchildren to know their own culture, so it has the significance of being passed down from generation to generation.