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Make a Chinese fancy lantern for Lantern Festival

Risa Harada — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:03:02 +0000

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.

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I would like to translate all the commentary for you, but my English is so poor that I can’t complete the whole work very well by myself. Too many professional jargon may smashed my head against the wall I really don’t know how to translate them, maybe in English these words does not exist.

Then I’ll try to translate each entry in the video, I’m sure you can follow the steps and video finish a Chinese traditional fancy lantern. If you have any question, you can leave your comment. Thank you.

Part1:Seven main steps of Making a Chinese traditional fancy lantern

Preparation of wood materials
Building the frame
Paperhanging on the frame
Decorative your fancy lantern with paper-cutting
Assembling the frame
Installing the string which hang the fancy lantern
Place candle inside the fancy lantern

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If you can read Chinese character that would be so nice, here is the Chinese character commentary. Click here to down load the Chinese character commentary about the steps of making a Chinese fancy lantern

Part2: How to make the large-size fancy lantern

The Preparation of metallic materials
Building the frame
Paperhanging on the frame
Decorative the finished lantern

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Chinese Lantern Festival Video News from CCTV

Risa Harada — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:09 +0000

This is a Chinese Lantern Festival Video News from CCTV9, according to this news the Lantern Festival is ready every place in China.

The next celebration of the Festival which is after the Spring Festival is the Chinese Lantern Festival in China, which celebrated over a week after the 15th day of lunar month. The whole country is ready to light the lanterns of all shapes and sizes.

The Lantern Festival marks the end of 15 days to celebrate the Spring Festival. After the break, it’s time for starting the fresh next year 2010.

This year is the year of the Tiger in China, so people make many kinds of tiger shaped lanterns.

Each lantern cost about 6 hours to be make, and the Prices of tiger shaped lanterns are between 10 and 500 yuan, depending on model and size.Other popular designs are traditional symbols of prosperity and happiness.

On the night of the first full moon of the lunar new year, it’s a tradition for people to walk carrying lanterns often shaped like the zodiac animal of that lunar year.

On the evening of the first full moon of the lunar new year is a tradition for people to hold some animals shaped lanterns of the zodiac walking on the road of the lantern fair.

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Singapore Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival 2007 video

Risa Harada — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:33:20 +0000

This is a video from youtube, the content was about the Singapore Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival 2007. You can follow the author to visit the beautiful scene of the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival 2007 at Singapore Chinese Garden.

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Greater Vancouver International Lantern Festival Video

Risa Harada — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:58:29 +0000

This is a part of Greater Vancouver International Lantern Festival Video, It seems that the videomaker get here a little early, the sky is not dark yet.In the night the Chinese lanterns can be more beautiful.

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Chinese Lantern Festival Video 2008 Toronto Rogers

Risa Harada — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:11:46 +0000

This post is about the Rogers Chinese Lantern Festival currently running until October 12th, 2008 at Ontario Place in Toronto.

Coming Stroll Around the grounds of ‘Ontario Place’ and Marvel at The Work of The Chinese Masters, The “Chinese Lantern Festival, Also Highlighting Some Cultural Martial Arts/Dance/Music/and Feats of Power and Balancing. You can click here to kown more about the Related Activities of Chinese Lantern Festival

Highlights in Chinese Lantern Festival 2008

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Chinese Lantern Festival Video 2007 Toronto Rogers

Risa Harada — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:27:47 +0000

This time we enjoy an evening at the 2007 Rogers Chinese Lantern Festival. For the 2nd year, Ontario Place Canada is having the Chinese Lantern Festival. More people arrived a couple of hours early to get some daylight footage and stayed for the real magic after dark.If them don’t work, you can send me a message, I’ll fix them as soon as possible.

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Chinese Lantern Festival Video 2006 Toronto Rogers

Risa Harada — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:16:34 +0000

Here have some video about the Rogers Chinese Lantern Festival at Ontario Place in Toronto 2006 from youtube, I hope you can enjoy the festival atmosphere. Clike it to play the video, if it don’t work you can send me a message.

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