Chinese traditional lanterns are integrated: painting art, paper-cutting, paper binding, piercing and other crafts. Among the lanterns made in ancient China, palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous. Traditional lanterns are closely connected with the Chinese people. Traditional lanterns are everywhere in temples and living rooms. Carefully calculated that China has a lamp after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the traditional lantern with paper is after the invention of the Eastern Han Dynasty paper. Traditional Chinese lanterns are not only used for lighting, they are also often a symbol. Wu Dunhou said that he used to make bridal lights (namely palace lights) to represent wedding celebrations; bamboo lanterns indicate that this is a funeral occasion; umbrella lights (words Surnamed Deng), because "Deng" and "Ding" have the same voice, which means that Ding is prosperous. Therefore, in the past, every family had a surname lamp hanging under the eaves and in the living room. At today's welcoming game, there are still two big traditional lanterns in front of the gods, which is the continuation of this custom.
However, traditional lanterns are the most reminiscent and hopeful of the Lantern Festival. The custom of watching lanterns in the Lantern Festival originated in the early years of the Han dynasty. In the first year of the Tang and Kai Dynasties, in order to celebrate Cathay Pacific ’s people ’s safety, the lanterns were tied together. . When Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, he even set off 10,000 water lamps on the Qinhuai River; Yongle Dynasty set up a lamppost on the Daoshan Mountain at the Wumen Gate, and set up a "lamp market" outside the Huamen Gate, making Beiping a "Dengshikou" street . After the Republic of China, although the flower lanterns are still there, they are much more bland. Fortunately, due to the popularity of China, traditional lanterns gradually play an important role in home decoration, but the materials of traditional lanterns are made of original paper and bamboo. It becomes cloth, plastic, iron wire, and the shape and color of traditional lanterns are also very different from traditional ones.
In addition to lighting, traditional lanterns have other meanings. Every year when the first month of private school (ancient school) starts, parents will prepare a traditional lantern for their children, which will be lit by the teacher, symbolizing the bright future of the students. It is called "turning on the lights". Later it evolved into the tradition of mentioning traditional lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Since the phonetic sound is similar to "Ting Ding", traditional lanterns are also used to pray for children. In the Japanese occupation era, patriots painted folk stories on traditional lanterns and taught their children and grandchildren to understand their own culture.
