Red packet lantern making method is as follows:

1, prepare six almost big red packets, scissors and tape.

2, align the bottom of the six red packets, use scissors to cut the top of the six red packets flush, cut into six red packets of the same size.

3. First, fold the four corners of one red envelope toward the center to make a small triangle.

4. In the same way, fold the four corners of the other five red envelopes inward into small triangles.

5. Start by taping two small triangles adjacent to two red envelopes together.

6, and then in the same way the six red envelope adjacent to the two triangles all glued together, glued into a lantern belly.

7, use scissors to cut a long thin strip on the edges and tape the ends.

8: Glue the strip to the inside of the two red envelopes on the opposite side as a lantern handle.

9, then cut a thicker rectangle from the edges, tape one end, and cut the other end with scissors into many thin strips as lantern spikes.

10, the lantern spike will be glued to the bottom of the lantern belly, red bag lantern is ready.

Lanterns, is a kind of ancient lamps, as early as the eighth century A.D. Tang Dynasty has recorded the use of lanterns from the beginning. China's lamps came after the Qin and Han dynasties, and paper lanterns were probably invented after the invention of paper in the Western Han Dynasty.

The Lantern Lantern custom originated in the early years of the Han Dynasty, but there are also rumors that Emperor Ming Huang of the Tang Dynasty in the Lantern Festival in the Shangyang Palace, Chen Lantern Shadow, in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's peace, before tying the lanterns, with the flickering light, symbolizing the "colorful dragons omen Cheung Cheung, the people of the country strong," Lanterns of the wind is still widely popular today.