Special material lantern: Zigong bamboo woven lantern
Bamboo woven lanterns may not be common to us, but it is an indispensable special material lantern in the treasure house of Chinese lanterns. Nowadays, it is rare, because although it looks good, it has a particularly long production period and high cost. It is difficult to thrive in modern lantern festivals led by economic benefits. Today we will tell the story of the birth of Zigong's first bamboo woven lantern.
Soon after the 6th Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Zigong in 1985, several generals of the Lantern Festival Office of the Rong County People’s Government Lin Canguang, the director, Cao Nian, the deputy director and chief art designer, and Zhu Dahe, the deputy director, put together a total of what lights will be made next year Woolen cloth?
Rongxian County is a large agricultural county, and the industrial technology basis for lamp making is no better than the big lamp manufacturers such as Dongguo Factory, Honghua Factory, and Zhanghua Factory at that time. But Kerong County has a thousand-year-old cultural accumulation of lanterns, and there is no outstanding lanterns at the Zigong Lantern Festival. Why face the ancestors?
