Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Chinese folk lanterns initiated from palace lanterns and palace lanterns originated from the custom of hanging lanterns at the night of the 15th of the 1st lunar month (Yuanxiao Jie / Lantern Festival) around in East Han dynasty.
About the origination of Yuanxiao Festival, generally there are three versions: one is that Yuanxiao Festival was to offer a sacrifice to the Heaven, another version...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Chinese lantern culture has a long history, the invention of lamps and lanterns has close relationship with the fact that people got to understand and made use of fire. The invention of lamps and lanterns presupposes human being’s cognition and preservation of fire. Darkness has never been our friends since remote past. It does not only limits people’s various activities but also makes good chances...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Singapore Chinatown(牛车水) held the Lantern Festival at every new year, Lantern Festival, Moon Festival (or called Mid-Autumn Festival), for the matters of the foreign policy and the language we have a local partner “Lanterns In Motion” is responsible for relating matters of Singapore local projects, here is our program of Singapore Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival 2007 at Singapore Chinatown.
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Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 14th, 2010 | No Comments
In this post Special Material Lanterns , I have said that the lanterns in the Lantern Festival is not only made by silk or paper, but also with silkworm cocoon, CD, porcelain, table tennis balls, red pepper, glass bottles or other materials, in this post I’ll upload some pictures of special material lanterns which we made in the recent years.
Shadow Spring River's Flowery Moon-Night
Porcelain...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 13th, 2010 | 3 Comments
Animal lanterns were using the wire shape the frame of animals, use silk to made the skin of animals, in the daytime, it is true to life, in the night, it is shine with dazzling brilliance, the biggest animal lanterns exhibitions in the world were Singapore Lantern Festival Safari 2005 in Singapore Chinese Garden and Canada Chinese Lantern Festival Video in 2008 at Toronto Rogers, animal lanterns...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Chinese lanterns are more than just decorations, In the city lighting engineering, Landscape Lantern is widely used. Landscape Lantern often appeared in the park, lake, street, restaurant, and so on. It can made very harmonious atmosphere, and cheaper and more high pressure than traditional landscape lamps. Now, I’ll show you some Landscape Lantern which we made in recent years.
Water Lantern
The...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 11th, 2010 | 4 Comments
Some school usually gives the homework about make a paper lantern before the Lantern Festival, that’s not a very difficulte thing, there are many ways to make a lantern, in this post, I’ll show you how to make a red paper lantern within 5 easy steps, the pictures is from a manual arts book.
At first, you must get these materials for this work.
Material: red paper*1 knife*1 stick*1 threads*n(n>1)
Step...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 11th, 2010 | No Comments
For each country, foreign culture very novel, how to help people see the entity foreign culture without taking a trip by their eyes, watching them in a Lantern Festival is a good way, so in the Lantern Festival, sometimes we will design a foreign theme of Lantern Festival for the people. Now you can see some foreign lantern pictures we made in Canada toronto, Singapore Chinese Garden, and other places.
Uncharted...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Cartoon Lanterns suitable for both young and old, it’s very popular in the world, many world famous cartoon companys all have their cartoon characters with copyright , like Mr.Bean, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other Disney characters… and they all creat their cartoon characters lanterns for promotion activity by us.
Here are some Cartoon Lanterns which we made...
Posted by Risa Harada on Apr 6th, 2010 | 3 Comments
Traditional Lantern in the Lantern Festival, in addition, we made many big red lanterns also shaped like dragon and Chinese ancient architecture etc.. They often build up a large lantern arch, it’s full of Chinese traditional atmosphere.
According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of...
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My name is Chen, a manager of an traditional Chinese lantern company from China which designed and made lantern complex for the biggest Lantern Festival events in the world, such like Canada Chinese Lantern Festival and Singapore Lantern Festival, this site recorded a large number of our Lantern Festival project and and Chinese lantern culture, hoping this site can help you :-) If you have any questions, you can give me a e-mail to qiuqiu908#gmail.com. (change # to @)
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