First, lantern painting originated in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and is still in the process of continuous enrichment and development.

Second, about the introduction of lantern painting:

Lantern painting, one of the varieties of folk art, is painted on top of the traditional lanterns used to beautify the decorative lanterns a special kind of painting, but also one of China's outstanding varieties of folk art in China has more than a thousand years of history.

Third, the origin of the development of lantern painting is explained below:

Lanterns are traditional Han crafts, originated more than 1,800 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, at first plain white without pictures, since the Qin Dynasty began to have colorful lanterns in the court.

China's lanterns and collectively known as lanterns, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the court lanterns developed into folk.

When Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty in south China, there were lanterns made of ornate brocade with painted stories of Buddhism, celestial beings and gods and ghosts, forming lantern paintings.

Every year, around the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, people put up lanterns to symbolize the meaning of reunion, to create an auspicious and festive atmosphere.

Later on, the lantern became a symbol of celebration for the Chinese.

After generations of lantern artists inheritance and development, the formation of colorful varieties and high level of craftsmanship.

From the types of lanterns: palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, chandeliers and so on.

From the stylistic 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.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, with the development of official lantern holidays, the production of colored lanterns into the heyday, the lantern painting more subjects, drawing process gradually enhanced.

Every Lantern Festival night, every house is decorated with lanterns, and from a distance, all the lights, forming a "moonlight even day color, lights mixed starlight" of the magnificent scenery.

At the same time, with the development of New Year's paintings and the prevalence of lanterns, especially the emergence of woodblock prints, lanterns more cost-effective to meet the needs of the majority of the people to provide an opportunity for the development of the use of woodblock prints of woodblock watermarking process of printing lanterns, and then mounted with the lanterns on top of the lanterns, to produce a more beautiful lantern paintings of lanterns.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, lantern paintings in addition to hand-painted, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu woodblock print workshops appeared specialized varieties of lantern paintings.

These provide a good foundation for the emergence of woodblock lantern paintings in the hometown of Burdan.