(i) Put the bamboo in the steam room heated for half an hour, and then take it out and put it in the shade to dry, but not overly dry, and not put it in the strong light exposure.

(ii) Use a bamboo planer to remove the rough skin of the cow's face.

(3) Cut the bamboo strips to the desired length; this depends on the size of the lantern.

(4) Weave the bamboo strips in a crisscross pattern to complete the frame.

(5) In the center of the frame, tie several rings of bamboo around the wall of the lantern.

(6) To paste (mount) the lantern, first mount the cotton gauze, and then glue two layers of single-layer paper used for lanterns. (If you don't have a sheet of paper, fine cotton paper will do.) Framing cotton gauze must first dilute the paste, evenly brushed on the surface of the skeleton, and then cut the gauze lightly attached to the lamp frame, and then use a brush dipped in paste to brush flat, here we need to pay attention to, brush the paste must be a clean brush can be, otherwise, the lamp surface will be a mess. At the same time, the laminating paper must be glued without seams before the real laminating is complete.

(7) Place the lanterns in a cool, ventilated place to dry.

(viii) Painting. The color painting is done in the pattern desired by the individual, such as figures, eight immortals, birds and flowers, ladies and so on.

(ix) after painting, depending on the situation to decide whether to write words. After the text and pattern are completely dry, a layer of tung oil is put on, and then the tung oil is dried, and the lantern is finished.

Fuzhou-style lanterns

Fuzhou-style lanterns - also known as umbrella lanterns.

Lanterns

Lanterns

Gui Bamboo: It is the most commonly grown type of bamboo in Taiwan. The texture is hard and flexible, making it suitable for fishing rods, brooms, and other implements.

Gabions: Gui Bamboo is split into bamboo strips called "gabions". Holes are punched at the top and bottom of the gabions and threaded with wire.

Bamboo head: On the bamboo joints of the gui bamboo, grooves are carved out and fixed with thick iron wires to become the head and bottom of the bamboo lantern.

Methods:

1. Install the gabions with wires threaded on the bamboo head pedestal.

2. A gabion is mounted on a grid of grooves, and finally the bamboo head is tied with wire to become a bamboo stand.

3. Holding it against the ground, the bamboo frame is slowly propped down until it becomes a cylinder.

4. Adjust the shape of the lantern, the curvature and the distance between the gimps by pressing and bending the gimps with your hands.

5. Tie a cotton thread around the top of the lantern to secure the gabions.

6. Lay white gauze on the gabions and fix them with paste.

7. Wait for the gauze to dry, then apply the pomelo glue.

8. When it dries in the shade, the tube-shaped umbrella lamp takes shape.

9. Then trace and color. Generally speaking, the characters are vermillion color, and the pictures are auspicious paintings such as the Eight Immortals and the Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity.

10.Finally, install the base on the bamboo head and trim it, and it's done.

1. Special steel wire up and down the two ends into the upper and lower two plastic seat multiple small holes, the skeleton took shape. 2. Will be two iron rods into the just done skeleton up and down the two plastic seat of the two large holes, the size of the right size after the use of a nail gun to fix the end of the iron rods and the plastic seat, the skeleton production is complete.

3. Cut the fabric into a similar long oval piece of cloth, the piece of cloth embroidery, hot stamping or color printing out the symbol of good luck and good luck patterns, and then a few pieces of cloth with the edge of the sewing machine to tie up the good, so that the lantern set is complete.

4. Lantern set into the skeleton, and then the skeleton to the downward pressure, hear "click" sound, that the lamp base has been the iron rod of the iron pins stuck, at this time the lantern set of each piece of cloth pieces spliced together on the sewing pushed to the wire, all the steel wire according to the same distance to the dial neatly, the lantern has been the prototype of the first time.

5. Just support up the lantern lying on the bracket with hand-operated bullion machine in the fabric on each wire with white latex on the track of the gold bars, and then dry.

6. After drying the gold bars, then in the lanterns of the upper and lower seat of the gold around the auspicious cloud pattern (locally known as Yunzi), and then dry.

7. After the lantern is dry, use pliers to press the iron pin on the pole, the lantern will be closed. Wrap a circle of gold tape around the place where the lamp base meets the lantern sleeve, and the lantern is finished.

8. Do a good job of the lantern can be directly on the lower seat on the yellow whiskers is a more complete lantern, but also in the upper and lower lamp base with a large circle, the upper circle of the gold laser tape, the lower circle with a circle of hydrangea, so that the palace lantern is more beautiful.

9. Finally, the hanging lantern wire pressed on the top of the lamp post, a beautiful palace lantern is completed.