Chinese Lantern Festival » Kinds of lanterns

Sentosa flower 2006

Risa Harada — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:33:32 +0000

As we know, in the Lantern Festival Chinese people often prepare many lanterns for celebration, but lanterns is not only used in the Lantern Festival or celebration activities but also being used like the landscape in the public places such like park, here are some lanterns’ pictures which we made in the Singapore Sentosa flower 2006, you can see that after the social development, in the modern time the Chinese lanterns is very wildly used.

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Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern

Risa Harada — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:02:15 +0000

Lanterns has a very important meaning for Taiwan, kinds of lanterns were used to celebrate kinds of festivals, in 2002 we made some Extra-Terrestrial Lantern for Taiwan’s park.

Front cover of E.T. Carnival

In the Taiwan park, there held a Extra-Terrestrial Carnival.

Here were our E.T. lanterns.

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern one-eyed monster

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern crab monster

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern E.T.

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern E.T.2

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern Green superman

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern Green superman 2

Taiwan Extra-Terrestrial Lantern Maomao monster

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Special Lantern

Risa Harada — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:33:14 +0000

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 Pine tree

Porcelain palace lantern

Porcelain Nice Dragon Tripod

Porcelain dragon and phoenix

Porcelain carps jumping over the dragon gate

LightScribe Phoenix

Glass Tube Dinosaur bones model

Glass bottle Nine Phoenix

Glass Dragon

Glass ball dolphin

Flashlight Kirin

Cocoon Phoenix

Cocoon Dragon

Cloak of Chinese paper cutting

Chili Cock herald the break of day

CD Dragon

CD Dragon 2

Bottle Peacock

Bamboo Lions play ball

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Animal Lantern

Risa Harada — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:18:40 +0000

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 were very popular outside China, there also have some great animal lanterns in other foreign Lantern Festival.

Now I’ll show you some animal lanterns which we made in Lantern Festival Safari, and Rogers Lantern Festival.

Dinosaur Lantern

Fire Bird Lantern

Raccoon Lantern

Penguin Lantern

Polar bear lantern

Alpaca Lantern

Vulture Lantern

Swan Lantern

Impala Lantern

Rhino Lantern

Zebra lanterns

animals lanterns

Elephant Lantern

Ancient animal lantern

Pangolin and vulture lanterns

Mammoth lantern

Zebra lanterns

Python Lantern

Hippo Lantern

Lion lantern

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Landscape Lantern

Risa Harada — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:00:27 +0000

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 moon tunnel

Street Lantern

Socks lantdscape

Snail lantdscape

Scarecrow lantdscape

Giant flowers

Red Bird of Forest

Panda climbing

Peach Trees

Pastoral Landscape

Nepenthes

Nepenthes 2

LightScribe Trees

LightScribe Flowers

Landscape flowers

Fire Bird

Dragon Lantern

Cyathea tree

Chinese knot

Cactus

Butterfly

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea trees

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Foreign Lantern

Risa Harada — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:14:17 +0000

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 Waters

Tower of Pisa

Toronto Tower

Thailand Building

Taj Mahal

Swan Lake

Statue of Liberty

St. Petersburg

South Korea arch

Russian style

Russian Doll

Russia blood church

Roman Pantheon

Petronas Towers in Malaysia

Noahs Ark

Mysteries of Egypt

Merry Christmas

Merlion

happy arch

Four face tower

Emperor's New Clothes

Eifel Tower

Cartoon Castle

Big Ben

Atlantis

Astronomical observation terrace

Arctic

Andersen's Fairy Castle

Aladdin

Lantern Carnival

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Cartoon Lantern

Risa Harada — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:22:43 +0000

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 in the Lantern Festival in recent years.

2004 Taiwan Monster Park 1

2004 Taiwan Monster Park 2

2004 Taiwan Monster Park 3

2004 Japanese Doraemon 1

2004 Japanese Doraemon 2

2004 Japanese Doraemon 3

2004 Singapore Hello kitty

2004 Singapore Hello kitty 2

2004 Singapore Hello kitty 3

2005 Shanghai Disney 1

2005 Shanghai Disney 2

2005 Shanghai Disney 3

2007 Mr.Bean Singapore

2007 Mr.Bean Singapore 2

2007 Mr.Bean Singapore 3

2007 Singapore Magic Ocean

2007 Singapore Magic Ocean 2

2007 Singapore Magic Ocean 3

2008 Singapore Kitty F8 Go Race

2008 Singapore Kitty F8 Go Race 2

2008 Singapore Kitty F8 Go Race 3

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Traditional Lantern

Risa Harada — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:31:26 +0000

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 colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles(Lantern Festival Riddles) on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (Chinese Lantern Festival food) and get all their families united in the joyful atmosphere.

Here is some traditional lanterns which we made in Chinese traditional Lantern Festival.

Zodiac arch

West Sichuan Palace

two lion arch

two Dragons arch

traditional China arch

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Tang palace

Summer Palace Dragon Palace

Spring Harmony

Spring arch

Silk Road

Salt transport ship

Romance of Three Kingdoms face

Qin

Qin dragon

Qin chariot

Primula arch

Phoenix chase the sun

Peacock

Opera cartoon

Olympic Dragon Boat

nice dragon wall

Nice dragon Swimming

Lantern sky

Lantern riddles Gallery

Langfang Arch

Kongzi

King Look for Immortal

Jingwei filling the sea

Jade Phoenix Towards Sun

Great Wall and the Terra Cotta Warriors

Singapore Fairy Play

Fable

Emperor and his soldiers

Dragon and Phoenix

Dragon Spirit

dragon party

Dragon King

Dragon Column

Dragon Caves

revolving lantern

Dragon Boat

dragon arch

Dragon and Golden Age

Colorful Guilin

Clifford door

China God's soldiers

Century tree lanterns

Buddha arch

as your wish arch

100 Dragons arch

5 King Lamp

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Modern Lantern

Risa Harada — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:37:15 +0000

The lanterns in Lantern Festival always show Chinese traditional element, in modern times,with the progress of the times more and more modern elements added, the theme of lanterns changed for the Lantern Festival theme, for example Olympics, Expo, New year, Moon cake festival, Hongkong’s return and so on.

Here is some pictures about Modern Lantern which we made in China in recent years.

Brilliant Further

Zodiac New Year Door

Tennis Player

Red Happy Tunnel

Oriental Pearl TV

One World, One Dream

Olympic flame

Olympic Cup

Hong Kong's return

Grape Door

Fuwa

Dream Colorful Door

Century dream

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Religion Lantern Design

Risa Harada — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:20:48 +0000

In China, Buddhism and Taoism are very popular in folk. As we know, the Lantern Festival is very similar to the temple fair, religion lantern is designed for the religion lantern festival which often hold around the temple and for religious propaganda.

The Buddhist Maze

Lin Guan Yin

Laozi and the young cattle

Kuan Yin bless

Happy

Guanyin hold Beads

Gather intelligence

Dragon Lantern and Guanyin

Dragon Cloud Gate Change

Dragon and King

Conquers the Dragon King

Buddha

Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu

Taoism Hanging lanterns

Sun Face Buddha and moon face Buddha

Sister Goddess of Mercy

Plead for Buddha column

Pass Lantern Picture

Pass lantern by Zen

Mission with Zen

Longevity Guanyin

Avalokitesvara

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