Handmade Noodle Lamps are made as follows:

Materials to prepare: and good noodles, cotton twists, sesame oil

The first step is to make the noodles. This step is the same as the steps to make steamed bread, flour and water, yeast to ferment the noodles, and then on the board and good, and cut into a piece of a square block.

The second step, pinch light. This step is to take the square pieces cut earlier and pinch them into the shape of a lamp, similar to a wine goblet. The center is concave, around the best with the thumb pinch a circle. This way the lamp is basically shaped.

The third step is to insert twists. Use cotton to make the twists, but it's best to have it readily available. Then insert the twists into the grooves of the lamps you pinched earlier, and make sure the twists are long so that they last longer when you light them.

The fourth step is to steam the lamp. Put the pinched noodle lamps in a pot and steam them. The soft noodles will harden.

Step 5, pour oil. Preferably soybean oil, pour it into the grooves of the noodle lamps, and pay attention to pouring the right amount of oil. Not too much, so that it will spill easily, and not too low, so that the lamp will not last long.

Introduction of Noodle Lanterns:

Noodle Lanterns are made of various types of flour steamed with cooking oil as fuel, and are mostly made of cotton wrapped around grain orange stalks or matches to make the wicks, so they are called Cotton Lanterns. Lantern Festival night light up lighting, this day the family generally do not use other lamps and lanterns. Children hand one end to go out "Lantern Festival", oil and food. The nursery rhyme says: "Cotton lamp re, shine your eyes re, three years do not harm your eyes re!"

Cotton lanterns are a kind of holiday noodle dish in Suzhou, North China, known as "oil lanterns with mixed noodles". It looks like a tea bowl, and the locals have to make oil lamps on the Lantern Festival. At noon on the 15th day of the first month, people began to do this kind of lamp, with mixed noodles or noodles and noodles, add flavor seasoning in the noodles, will also be pinched into a variety of shapes, if the vegetarian buns is to wash a big fish and meat has been tired of the intestines, that cotton lamps are in order to please the children of all sizes.