The cultural characteristics of Chinese lanterns
In modern time, the Chinese lanterns is not easy to use that kinds of lamps, but why we still use Chinese lanterns in many places? The cultural characteristics of Chinese lanterns is the reason.
Maybe some one will ask that what’s the cultural characteristics of Chinese lanterns?
When we talk about Chinese lanterns, we will certainly think about the red color and festive atmosphere. The following...
Lantern Festival Activities
In Chinese Lantern Festival, there are so many folk activities in this Festival not only watching the lantern display, now I’ll introduce most of the Lantern Festival activities often show in the Lantern Festival for you.
1. Giant Lantern Display
As we know that the most important activity is watching the lantern display. I have post many information about it, in this post I’ll not talk...
A glass bottles lantern – Kylin Presenting Luck
Kylin Presenting Luck is a lantern sets on Zigong Lantern Festival, Zigong Lantern Festivals facture unigue materials in manufacfuring. The Kylins in different manner and modelling are, to your surprise, formed by 800,000 glass bottles. It comes true to turn waste into mystery.
Kylin lantern
Kylin Presenting Luck often exhibtioned outside China, it’s very popular in Environmentalists. And it...
Tortoise Lantern
According to an ancient books’ animals, a grand canyon without bottom lay to the East of Bahai sea. The five mountains in the canyon often drifted with the tide. There for, the emperor in the Heaven commanded fifteen giant tortoises to hold them up on the backs. From then on, the countains kept motionless. The Lantern Festival after Song Dynasty took the story into lanterns. Generally, the modelling...
Dragon Lantern
The Dragon Lantern is a essential element in Chinese Lantern Festival, maybe some Westerns didn’t know why we always make the Dragon lanterns in Chinese Lantern Festival, I think it’s for the cultures of Westerns and Easterns.
The meaning of Dragon is different between Westerns and Easterns
The Dragon is legendary creature, it has different means between the eyes of Chinese and Westerners....
Chinese fancy lantern and the ACG 2
In Chinese fancy lantern and the ACG 1, I have told about the flexibility of wire is not enough to express a complex cartoon character face. Then, how to make a complex cartoon character face or human face in the lantern festival? The answers are two ways:
1.Use a special FRP material which is translucent.
Merit: Can easliy finished the complex face or other complex shape.
Demerits: It’s...
Special Material Lanterns in the Lantern Festival
As we know, the Chinese lanterns were made of silk or paper usually, and in the past few years, more and more material were used in the Chinese lanterns. especially in the Lantern Festival. They are so beautiful and amazing.
I share some special material lanterns in the Lantern Festival here.
1 The porcelain material dragon lantern
The porcelain material dragon lantern
2 The porcelain material...
Make a Chinese fancy lantern for Lantern Festival
The Chinese Lantern Festival is coming, maybe you want to make a Chinese traditional fancy lantern for celebrating the Chinese Lantern Festival.
Here has two parts of a detailed video about it, it’s a standard course. I’m sure it can help you, only that the video speeking in Chinese Mandarin, despite that I think the video scene is very enough.
fancy lantern
I would like to translate all...
Chinese fancy lantern and the ACG 1
My job is about the Chinese fancy lantern fair, and my hobby is ACG. What is the ACG, that include anime comic and games called cartoon. I always want to add many ACG element into the Lantern Festival.
But it’s not easy to do it, the reason is the step of making the Chinese fancy lantern – Modeling and welding. As we know, the Chinese Lantern displays are modeling and welding with the wire,(the...
Chinese Lantern Festival 2010 date
The Chinese new year Festival is coming , I have seen many people used google to find that ‘Chinese Lantern Festival 2010 date ‘ , I think it is not easy to get clear date from Chinese lunar calendar for a foreigner. The date of Chinese Lantern Festival 2010 is 2010 February 28 , I hope it can help you. You also can visited When is the lantern festival to get the Chinese Lantern Festival...
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