Craft Lamp an Important Part of Lantern Festival
Craft lamp refers to small, beautifully made, hanging lanterns of various shapes and palace lanterns. Zigong people usually refer to them collectively as "craft lamp", "palace lamp" and "Zigong Palace Lamp". There are many kinds and forms of craft lamps. Here, Zigong craft lamps are taken as an example.
In addition to the appreciation value of the hanging display of craft lights, it also plays an important role in the exhibition of lights and the exhibition of lights. Due to the small size of the craft lamp, it plays an embellishment role in the lantern exhibition, forming a contrast with the large and medium-sized groups of lamps and corresponding brightness. The small ones are more exquisite and the large ones are more magnificent, which is a necessary lamp in the lantern exhibition. The craft lamp suspended by the lamp pole becomes the series between the group lamp and the group lamp, but also the connection of the display line. The craft lamp is like the basic shape of the graph -- point in the lamp exhibition, and can form any shape through the "collection". There are many ways to display it. Hanging alone, hanging in rows, hanging in groups can form a light gallery, connected hanging can become a lamp post, and aggregated modeling can become a group of lights and so on.
The craft lamp is an essential scenic line in the lantern exhibition. Zigong craft lamp development to today, drawing on the characteristics of lanterns around the shape and system design has been diversified, no fixed shape, design can open the idea, in order to beautiful. The shape of the craft lamp is palace lamp, special-shaped lamp geometry lamp, etc. The structure of craft lamp is generally composed of lamp cover, lamp body and lamp skirt. Divided into three categories according to the content; "Flowers and fruits, there are peony, lotus, gardenia, grapes, melons and vegetables. "One hundred" class, such as the twelve zodiac animals, phoenix, crane, bird, fish, shrimp and other lantern art it can endure, and with the change of The Times to develop, one of the main reasons that the masses love is that it integrates a large number of blessing happiness, auspicious festival folk culture graphic elements. Highlighting folk customs and auspiciity are the themes of craft lamp design. Auspicious patterns and popular graphics are widely used in craft lamp design. Auspicious theme not only shows people's hope and ideal for the future, but also symbolises people's hard efforts to change the living environment, great will to conquer difficulties and unyielding power in an allegorical way, which is both ideal and realistic.
Even if the decoration of auspicious theme still has a divine aspect in the traditional concept, it still has its practical significance. Its deep motive of decoration is to create an auspicious world and express a kind of hope for a stable, harmonious and prosperous life. The design method of craft lamp often makes use of various conventional cultural symbols to materialize the abstract reproduction complex and life consciousness in the production of lamp color products.
In order to facilitate the production, the design effect drawing of the process lamp should be color drawing. The light box type process lamp mainly has two sides, and only one side can be designed. If the decorative surface of the multi-side process lamp has changes, different surface design drawings need to be designed for the sake of construction. After the design draft is completed, the specification and size of the process lamp should be marked, and the design description should be given. The design instructions indicate skeleton material, surface decorative fabric, decorative graphics, patterns and requirements, local decorative materials, tassel row and tassel specifications, etc.
