Required materials: bamboo head, bamboo stick, iron wire, cotton thread, paste, white yarn and agar.

1. Install the bamboo strips on the bamboo head base with iron wires.

2. Put a bamboo stick on a groove, and finally tie the bamboo head with iron wire to form a bamboo frame.

3. Lean against the ground and slowly put down the bamboo frame until it becomes a tube.

4. Fold the bamboo stick by hand and adjust the shape, curvature and spacing of the lantern bamboo stick.

5. Tie cotton thread on the top of the lantern to fix the bamboo stick.

6. Spread the white yarn on the bamboo strips and fix it with paste.

7. When the gauze is dry, apply watercress glue.

8. After drying in the shade, a cylindrical umbrella lamp is formed.

9. Finally, put the base on the bamboo head and decorate it, and it is finished.

The origin of lanterns:

There are many theories about the origin of playing lanterns. A widely circulated saying is that the custom of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty advocated Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, a Buddhist monk watched the Buddhist relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, so all the gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns that night.

Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's peace, people tied lanterns and used flashing lights to symbolize "lucky dragons, rich people and strong country". Since then, the custom of playing lanterns has been widely spread.