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Xianju Lantern Festival is a traditional handicraft with characteristics in Xianju County, Zhejiang Province, and a festival custom of Lantern Festival. It has a long history, is widely distributed and has a wide variety. Such as Banlong Lantern in Hengxi and Banqiao, Changqi Lantern in Wushang Village, Jumping Horse Lantern in Zhuxi and Xiage, Carp Jumping Dragon Gate Lantern in Xiatang Village, Dragon Lantern in Shuikou Village of Shi Tian Town, Lion Lantern in Sedan Chair and Shrimp Pushing Lantern in Wang Qian Village, etc.
During the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival in Xianjushan Township was very lively. What is even more amazing is the "point-and-point boneless lamp" in Xianju Village Beach, which is known as the "pearl of the lamp sea".
Xianju acupuncture boneless lamp originated in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "Tang lamp" or "magic lamp", and its skills became mature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Legend has it that during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, a scholar in Qiantan Village lost his way in the mountains at night and was guided by a fairy with a "magic lamp". This kind of lamp is unique in shape, beautifully made, small and exquisite, simple and elegant. The lamp body has no skeleton,
It is all made of pieces of paper that have been needled into various patterns. After the scholar came home, he painted the gourd according to the pattern and made it carefully. After being made, it was hung at the door, which was loved and praised by everyone. After the "magic lamp" settled in the scholar's house, the fairy became a village girl and married the scholar, reading poems with the scholar every night. In the year of the big exam, the scholar won the first prize.
Later, people called this boneless lantern "the number one lantern". Later, the champion dedicated the lamp to the palace, and from then on there was a "boneless little palace lantern" in the palace. Gu Shan, the wife of the champion, gradually passed on the manufacturing technology of this "magic lamp" to the villagers in Qiantan Village. Since then, the manufacturing technology of this magic lamp has been circulated among Xianju people for a long time.
According to local genealogy records, there was a grand lantern festival in the ancient town of Tiantan in Xianju during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Every family hangs a "scholar lamp" to show the scholarly brothers and wish them all the best. This kind of "boneless lantern" is carved on the beams and legs of the "Daming Hall" and "University Hall" in Qiantan Ancient Street.
In the Qing Dynasty, the styles and varieties of lamps were further developed and increased. Among them, there is a kind of lantern called "Zhu Lan Deng", and the pattern around the lantern is made of an embroidery needle called "Water Floating", which is a tribute to the emperor. The exhibition in Hangzhou was praised by foreign guests and called it "magic boneless lantern".