It's also a good idea to make your own lanterns. You can't make the "big guy" sold on the street, and you can't find materials such as steel wire and steel plate. Then make a simple paper lantern with bamboo strips, rice paper and pen and ink. Handmade paper lanterns are simple in materials and techniques, which can not only design their favorite patterns, but also add a lot of fun to festivals.
The first step is to make the skeleton. The simple shape of a paper lantern is a cube or cylinder. It is best to make a frame with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins, and the joints are tied tightly with thin lines. If it is difficult to find, you can also use slender cardboard and bamboo sticks for barbecue. The firmness and elasticity will be lacking, but it is also a good decoration indoors.
Step 2, make the lamp body. Buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study, cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, and you can design your own patterns. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting can all be displayed on small lanterns. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns. If you are not good at painting and calligraphy, there is a simple method for reference. Use a thin paper to trace the desired words on the copybook, then overlap this thin paper with crimson rice paper and dig out the words with a single-edged blade. Remove the paper towel, and hollow handwriting will appear on the red rice paper. White rice paper is used as the lamp body, and red rice paper is pasted inside, which reflects candlelight or light from the hollowed-out place, and the effect is quite beautiful.
The third step is to be a light source. If you put it indoors, you just need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; If you want to realize it, you'd better make a simple circuit with light bulbs and batteries. It may look a little rough, but order one for the Lantern Festival.
3. Materials: bamboo strips, cotton thread, paste (glue), iron wire, gauze, candles, paper towels, bamboo planers, scissors, etc.
Production steps:
1. Put the bamboo in the steam room and heat it for half an hour, then take it out and dry it in the shade, but don't over-dry it or irradiate it with strong light.
2. Use a bamboo plane to shave the rough epidermis on the bamboo surface.
3. Cutting bamboo strips with required length; It depends on the size of the lantern.
4. Weaving method: complete the lamp holder in a cross way.
5. In the middle of the lamp holder, tie several bamboo rings on the lamp wall.
6. Paste (install) lanterns, first paste cotton gauze, and then paste two layers of glossy paper for lanterns (if there is no glossy paper, fine cotton paper can also be used). Sticking cotton gauze, first brush the diluted gauze evenly on the surface of the skeleton, then gently stick the cut gauze on the lamp holder, and then brush it flat with a brush dipped in paste. It should be noted here that the brush for brushing the paste must be a clean brush, otherwise the lamp surface will be messy. At the same time, the pasted paper must be pasted without seams in order to be truly pasted.
7. Put the lanterns in a cool and ventilated place to dry.
8. draw pictures. Painting adopts the required patterns according to personal taste, such as figures, eight immortals, flowers and birds, ladies and so on.
9. After painting, decide whether to write according to the actual situation. When the characters and patterns are completely dried, brush a layer of tung oil and then dry in the shade, and the lantern is finished.
4. Material: an orange, a wire, a stick about 45 cm long and a candle about 5 cm long.
Steps: hollow out the meat in the orange, be careful not to break the orange peel, then separate the iron wires on both sides of the hole on the orange peel, then put the candle in the empty orange shell, wrap the wooden stick around the iron wire, and then light the candle.