What other mushroom lanterns do you know?

There are many kinds of lanterns, including dragon lanterns, palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, flower blue lanterns, dragon and phoenix lanterns, corner lanterns, tree lanterns, fireworks lanterns and mushroom lanterns. Their shapes are round, square, cylindrical and polygonal.

Make lanterns

First, material selection.

1. Put the bamboo in the steam room (or heat it for half an hour), then take it out and dry it in the shade, but it should not be excessively dried or irradiated by strong light.

2. Peel and cut: peel off the rough skin and cut the length of bamboo strips according to the size of lanterns.

Second, tie the skeleton.

Cross-weave the lamp caps and tie several bamboo rings on the lamp wall in the middle of the lamp caps.

Thirdly, make the lamp body.

Buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study, cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, and you can design your own patterns. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting can all be displayed on small lanterns. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns.

If you are not good at painting and calligraphy, there is a simple method for reference. Use a thin paper to trace the desired words on the copybook, then overlap this thin paper with crimson rice paper and dig out the words with a single-edged blade. Remove the paper towel, and hollow handwriting will appear on the red rice paper. White rice paper is used as the lamp body, and red rice paper is pasted inside, which reflects candlelight or light from the hollowed-out place, and the effect is quite beautiful.

Fourth, be a light source.

If you put it indoors, you just need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; If you want to realize it, you'd better make a simple circuit with light bulbs and batteries.

Fifth, paste

Brush the diluted paste evenly on the surface of the skeleton, then stick cotton gauze, gently stick the cut gauze on the lamp holder, then brush it flat with a brush, and finally stick two layers of glossy paper for lanterns (fine cotton paper is also acceptable if there is no glossy paper). Note that the brush used to paste the batter must be clean, and the pasted paper must be pasted without seams to be truly pasted.

Six, dry

Put the lanterns in a cool and ventilated place to dry.

Seven, painting

1, painting or cutting and pasting: painting or cutting and pasting with personal patterns, such as figures, eight immortals, flowers and birds, ladies, etc.

2. Write words: After painting, decide whether to write words according to the situation. When the words and patterns are completely dry, the lantern is finished.

The origin of lanterns

Yuanxiao originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and spread among the people in the Song Dynasty. The production of lanterns in the past dynasties in China was very particular and varied. For example, Tang Yin, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, said in a poem: "Light without moon is not spring. Spring comes to people's hearts, and the lights burn like silver in the next month. The streets are full of women dressed in pearls and green. They are singing and playing games with the gods. How can we get rid of this good time until Fang Zun smiles? "