The origin of Kongming idiom "Kongming Lantern".

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Kongming lanterns are also called sky lanterns, commonly known as wishing lanterns and blessing sky lanterns. It is an ancient handicraft in China, which was used for military purposes in ancient times. Modern people put lanterns on Kongming lanterns as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year. Generally, it is released on major festivals such as Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

According to legend, in the Five Dynasties (907 ~ 960 AD), there was a woman named Xin Abandoned Mother. When she was fighting with her husband in Fujian, she made a box with bamboo sticks, pasted paper on it and made a headlight. Burning turpentine was placed on the chassis, and the lamp was blown into the sky by hot air as a military contact signal. This kind of resin lamp is called Kongming Lantern in Sichuan. This lamp is shaped like a hat worn by Zhuge Liang, hence its name.

Another saying is said to have been invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhuge Liang was besieged in Pingyang and could not send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made a floating paper lantern, tied with the message for help, and then escaped as expected, so later generations called this lantern Kong Ming Lantern.

origin

According to legend, during the Five Dynasties (907 ~ 960 AD), there was a woman named Qi Xin-Niang. When she was fighting with her husband in Fujian, she made a box with bamboo sticks, pasted paper on it and made a headlight. There is burning turpentine on the chassis, and the lamp is flown into the sky by hot air as a military contact signal. This kind of resin lamp is called Kongming Lantern in Sichuan. This lamp is shaped like a hat worn by Zhuge Liang, hence its name.

Modern people put lanterns on Kongming lanterns as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year.

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, ancestors were introduced into Taibei County, Pingxi Township and Shiliao District of Taiwan Province Province from Hui 'an and Anxi counties in Fujian, that is, the upper reaches of Keelung River. According to the oral accounts of the elders in Shiliao area, bandits occurred in Shiliao area in the early Qing Dynasty. Being located in the mountainous area, all the villagers fled to the mountains. After the bandits left, the people who stayed in the village used sky lanterns as signals at night to inform the villagers who had taken refuge in the mountains that they could go down the mountain and go home. This is also the way to report peace to the villagers. Since the Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, villagers in ten regions celebrate the Lantern Festival every year and report peace to villagers in neighboring villages. Therefore, villagers in ten areas also call sky lanterns "blessing lanterns" or "safety lanterns".

structure

The structure of Kongming Lantern can be divided into two parts: the main part is made of bamboo grates, the second part is made of cotton paper or paper paste, and the chassis is made of bamboo grates. Kongming lanterns can be large or small, generally cylindrical or rectangular. Generally speaking, Kongming lanterns are barrel-shaped made of bamboo pieces, surrounded by thin white paper, and their openings are downward.

manufacture

First, prepare the materials.

The materials for making Kongming lanterns include: copy paper, paper cutter, scissors, needle-nosed pliers, cotton thread, industrial alcohol, glue, wires, cotton and bamboo strips.

Second, the steps of making Kongming lanterns

1. Bamboo cutting: Cut the bamboo strips to a thickness below 3mm with a knife, then bend them into a circle and fix them with cotton thread or 502 glue. Bamboo is elastic, and bamboo rings are not necessarily round. You can bake it with a small fire and fix the bamboo circle into a circle.

2. Stranded copper wire: Use needle-nosed pliers to remove the insulating layer outside the waste wire, and then fine copper wire can be obtained. But the copper wire should not be too thin, otherwise it will burn easily. Three copper wires can be screwed together to avoid this problem.

3. Sticker sheet: Cut the pieces of paper into the specifications as shown in the figure, stick one side of the first piece of paper and one side of the second piece of paper together, and then stick the third and fourth pieces of paper until they are completely stuck.

4. Setting: Stick the air hole on it, inflate the balloon when it is dry, find a thin and narrow bamboo strip, bend it into a bamboo ring with the same size as the hole below, cross two thin iron wires perpendicular to each other in the bamboo ring, tie them on the bamboo ring, and then stick the bamboo ring on the paper edge of the hole below, so that the pasted balloon will not leak.

5. Flight test: Tie the copper wire at both ends of the bamboo circle, and then stick the finished lampshade on the bamboo circle. Tie cotton to a copper wire, soak it in alcohol, light it and you can fly it.