Chinese Lantern Festival

Mr.Luis and Mr.Marco visited our company

Risa Harada — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:17:06 +0000

Mr.Luis and Mr.Marco came to visit our company from Mexico at 10th March, they express interest in Zigong Lantern Art.

We watched Zigong 2013 Lantern Festival at that night. The next day, they visited the Huayi lantern base, to have more detailed understanding of the production process of the Lantern, Mr.Luis expressed great satisfaction with various aspects of our company, and our company has established a preliminary cooperation intention.

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Warner Bros Funtastic Carnival of Lantern

Risa Harada — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:09:10 +0000

So lazy for updating in these 2 years, recently (3 month ago), we created a small project in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Including about 40 Warner Bros Characters lanterns, 2 entrance gate lanterns.
These pictures below were in the installation time at Jakarta.
Kinds of Characters such like Tweety, Green Lantern, Bugs Bunny lanterns etc.. looks very lovely.

We were back to China when we finished our works (installation and debugging), and I didn’t get our customers’ night exhibition photos for Indonesia didn’t have good internet to send them, that was a little disappointed.

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FRP modeling crafts

Risa Harada — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:06:56 +0000

The fifth crafts of Chinese lantern crafts is FRP modeling crafts (玻璃钢工艺), it evolving from sculpture. Today FRP modeling crafts is usually used on Landscape Lantern in subsidiary decoration and making face of lantern character . This crafts depended on skill of sculpturer, in the two articles:

I’ve told about why we use FRP modeling crafts in Lantern Festival, because the flexibility of wire is not enough to express a complex cartoon character face.

Follow my pictures, you can understand the steps of FRP modeling crafts.

This is the four-face Buddha lantern complex, and we made this Buddha at Ontario Palace in Canada Chinese Lantern Festival. It’s one of the highlighting lantern complex of this Lantern Festival.

1. Preparing FRP materials

Preparing FRP materials

2. Polishing materials

Polishing materials

Polishing and modeling materials

3. Molding the materials

Molding the materials

4. Semi-manufactured head

Semi-manufactured head

5. Finished four-face Buddha lantern complex

Finished four-face Buddha lantern complex

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Agglutination crafts

Risa Harada — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:54:43 +0000

The forth crafts of Chinese lantern crafts is agglutination crafts (粘结工艺), it evolving from traditional Chinese lantern making crafts of paper hanger. Now, the agglutination crafts is usually used on special material lantern complexes in the Lantern Festival. This crafts depended on skill of a paper hanger, women were fitting for this job. Agglutination crafts can agglutinate many material such like table tennis balls, silkworm cocoon, CD, bottles and so on.

Follow my pictures, you can understand the steps of agglutination crafts.

This is the silkworm cocoon phoenix, and we made this phoenix at Ontario Palace in Canada Chinese Lantern Festival. It’s one of the highlighting lantern complex of this Lantern Festival.

1. Lantern designs

Lantern designs

2. Silkworm cocoon

Silkworm cocoon

3. Agglutination

Agglutination

4. Semi-finished lantern complex

Semi-finished lantern complex

5. Finished lantern complex

Finished lantern complex

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Binding crafts

Risa Harada — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:49:43 +0000

The third crafts of Chinese lantern crafts is binding crafts (捆扎工艺), it evolving from traditional Chinese lantern making crafts of carpenter. Now, the binding crafts is usually used on special material lantern complexes in the Lantern Festival. This crafts depended on skill of traditional Chinese lantern maker, you must employ many lantern maker for binding the special material, this is a very mammoth job.

Follow my pictures, you can understand the steps of binding crafts.

This is the hundred-metres porcelain dragon, and we made this dragon near the Ontario Palace river in Canada Chinese Lantern Festival. It’s the highlighting lantern complex of this Lantern Festival.

1. Blueprint

Blueprint

2. Binding the porcelains

Binding the porcelains

Binding the porcelains for other lantern complex

3. Assemble and install

Assemble and install

4. Finished the hundred-metres porcelain dragon

Finished the hundred-metres porcelain dragon

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Engraving on wood crafts

Risa Harada — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:08:27 +0000

The second crafts of Chinese lantern crafts is engraving on wood crafts (梳花工艺), it evolving from the wood carving crafts of carpenter. Now, the engraving on wood crafts is wildly used on lantern complex’s base or the decoration of lantern building. This crafts depended on skill of carpenter, you must employ a great carpenter for your Lantern Festival project.

Follow my pictures, you can understand the steps of engraving on wood crafts.

This is the Canadian TV Tower which is near Ontario Palace, and we made the Tower’s lantern in Canada Chinese Lantern Festival. The pattern on this TV Tower lantern is made by this crafts.

1. The design picture of Canada TV Tower lantern.

The design picture of Canada TV Tower lantern

2. Lofting the design picture on the ground

Lofting the design picture on the ground

3. Engraving pattern on wood

Engraving pattern on wood

4. Semi-manufactured pattern on wood

Semi-manufactured pattern on wood

5. The finished Canada TV Tower lantern complex

The finished Canada TV Tower lantern complex

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Iron wire modeling crafts

Risa Harada — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:29:15 +0000

The first crafts of Chinese lantern crafts is the iron wire modeling crafts (丝扎工艺造型), it evolving from the wood modeling crafts of Chinese lantern, in the modern time, the iron wire modeling crafts became the most wildly used crafts on the large-size and custom lantern complex making.

The result depends on the fitter level, there must prepared great fitters and great lantern art designing.

Follow my pictures, you can understand the steps of iron wire modeling crafts.

1.Peking Opera lantern design

Peking Opera lantern design

2. Lofting the lantern design

Lofting

3. Copy mode

Copy mode

4. Welding

Welding

5. Semi-manufactured lantern

Semi-manufactured lantern

6. Finished lantern

Finished lantern

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Production process pictures of Mr Bean visit the Mid-Autumn Festival

Risa Harada — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:17:45 +0000

As Mr Bean’s British humor, Mr Bean was famous known in the world, in order to promote Mr Bean in Asia, Mr Bean’s company invited us to produce the cartoon lanterns, this event held at the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival in Singapore, this post recorded the production process of ‘Mr Bean visit the Mid-Autumn Festival’, through which you can more understand the crafts of Chinese lanterns.

The Chinese ver. design PPT of Mr Bean visit the Mid-Autumn Festival

Mr.Bean ppt

The production process pictures of Mr Bean visit the Mid-Autumn Festival

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Chinese lantern culture in the period of Republic of China

Risa Harada — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:53:20 +0000

The lantern festival in Republic of China succeeded the traditional style and connotation of Qing Dynasty. However, due to the ceaseless wars, there was no large-scale lantern show from the capital to remote towns. Various folk activities and entertainment programs were kept in the whole country. The Chinese lantern culture never stopped but prevailed even at the time of foreign invasion, mishap and war chaos. It survived toughly and kept its own traditional style. In the period of Republic of China, lantern show was held at the inauguration ceremony of president Sun Yat-sen, celebration ceremony of the victory of beating Yuan Shikai, a warlord, victory ceremony of Northern Expedition, victory ceremony of Anti-Japanese Invasion and so on.

The navigation of Chinese Lantern and Lantern Festival

torch parade in Zigong at the win of Anti-Japanese Invasion War

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Chinese Lanterns in Qin Dynasty (221B.C. – 207B.C.)

Risa Harada — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:38:53 +0000

In Qin Dynasty Chinese lanterns got the conditions of being born. Qin Dynasty ended the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States. The Great Wall was built in this Dynasty. It’s a very important Dynasty in Chinese history. Compared with the bronze lamp of Warring States, achievement of Qin lamp may not be worse. However, the limited Qin lamps unearthed are simplicity and cannot display all the skills of lamp making in Qin Dynasty.

Chinese Lantern Festival

Mr.Luis and Mr.Marco visited our company

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Warner Bros Funtastic Carnival of Lantern

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FRP modeling crafts

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Agglutination crafts

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Binding crafts

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Engraving on wood crafts

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Iron wire modeling crafts

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Production process pictures of Mr Bean visit the Mid-Autumn Festival

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Chinese lantern culture in the period of Republic of China

The navigation of Chinese Lantern and Lantern Festival

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Chinese Lanterns in Qin Dynasty (221B.C. – 207B.C.)

The lamp in Qin Dynasty

The navigation of Chinese Lantern and Lantern Festival

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