Lantern Industry Situation During in Past Three Years
In all the expenses of lantern enterprises, labor costs account for the highest proportion. Lantern is an industry that relies heavily on artisans, and the daily wages, travel expenses and installation costs of workers can account for almost 50%-70% of the contract price of the project. For example, painting workers can earn 800 yuan a day, welding skeleton workers about 300 yuan a day, paper workers also have about 150 yuan a day, meet the deadline, the price will double.
According to the Zigong Lantern Industry Chamber of Commerce survey, as early as 2019, the salary of local lantern workers showed a trend of high not low, peak season as high as 15,000 yuan per station (industry slang, meaning a project cycle, usually about 25 days), senior artists can reach 100,000 to 300,000 yuan per station income. Artists are the scarcest in the market, and the starting salary in Zigong is 10,000 yuan, even for those who have just graduated or just entered the industry.
You know, any one of the lantern lighting group is by design, artists, fitters, welders, paperhangers, painting workers and other types of work to complete, before the tailor, painter, carpenter, which design and art is relatively more core positions. "As the saying goes, a girl's white covers a hundred ugliness, and colored lanterns cover a hundred ugliness with beauty. The design is what the lights look like, and the artist is the last makeup artist who can turn an ugly woman into a beautiful woman." A veteran of the lantern industry described it this way.
Modern lights five basic elements, shape, color, sound, light, movement, lack of any one will lose beauty. For example, the rabbit lamp in the Three Gorges Square in Chongqing was ridiculed by netizens, while Zigong's "cute rabbit with thousands of lanterns" was praised as cool. In fact, both are made by Zigong people, but by different craftsmen. The finished effect is closely related to the team experience and coordination. Good design, art and fitter teams are very popular in the market.
According to lantern industry insiders, 3,700 people were employed for the 29th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Fair alone, and more than 40 companies selected the lantern sets through bidding. "There's round after round of screening, round after round of voting."
The final result is much more delicate than the earliest pure handmade lights. Early, paper paste lights are not wind, rain, frost resistance, but also easy to dump, volume is not big. Later, the bamboo lights inside the tungsten filament bulb, energy consumption is easy to hot, a long time the brightness is not enough. For a long time, the material, light source, lamp shadow are relatively fixed, far from so rich now.
