With the arrival of the New Year ’s Day, the red lanterns, which symbolize the festive and auspicious, are loved by the public. In the lantern manufacturing workshop, workers are making iron lanterns, cutting the lantern cloth, and affixing gold to the lantern Cloud paper. According to Wang Jinliang, the manager of the hand-made lantern processing factory, there are more than ten procedures for making lanterns, such as iron frame, steel bar insertion, coil wire, cloth cutting, lantern cover, sticky cloud, sticking beard, sticky gold bar.
The lantern is simple in shape, bright in color and strong in decoration, and at the same time, it has a strong folk art style. Locally, these auspicious meanings and exquisitely crafted special palace lanterns attracted merchants from all over the country to come to order, accounting for 80% of the domestic market share. The first is that the Chinese New Year signifies the arrival of the New Year, and a prosperous auspicious year, while the New Year ’s Eve and the first day of the first lunar year are two years old and the new year will be greeted. Red lanterns hung overhead, people walked under the lights, looked up at the lights, and fortune took the lead, which also means that we can get better in the new year! Then there are lights and Ding which are shape sounds. Another meaning of hanging red lanterns is to hope that the people in the family will flourish and the family will flourish, but we must pay more attention to it!
The second is to hang red lanterns in double numbers. Both must be hung together. Whether it is hanging on both sides of the door or the balcony, it must be calculated in double numbers, such as 2, 6, 8, etc., which also means a good word. It must be symmetrical. The hanging red lanterns must be symmetrical. No matter the height or distance, the distance must be moderate! In this way, the lanterns hanging are exactly the same, which is not only ornamental, but also means harmony.
Finally, the direction of hanging lanterns, lanterns must be hanging south and not north. Of course, there is nothing to hang on the east and west, but it must not be on the north. Because this is still a taboo thing. If you hang it on the north side, not only will the above auspicious meaning not be brought, but also because the northern water passengers are lucky, it can be seen that hanging lanterns is also a knowledge.
