It will be the Lantern Festival soon.
At present, apart from eating Yuanxiao and guessing riddles, lanterns are what everyone is most concerned about.
People, landscapes, flowers and birds, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects … … Its shape can be varied.
Bamboo, wood, rattan, straw, animal horn … … Its materials can be varied.
China Lantern Festival is inseparable from the city where it was born.
A city has the practice of a city, and a city has the temperament of a city. For thousands of years, the two sides of the canal have produced a very beautiful lantern culture.
Next, let’s take a look.
Beijing lantern
Beijing’s lanterns, with gorgeous categories and rich themes, appeal to both refined and popular tastes, including lantern, gauze lantern, palace lantern and three-dimensional animal lantern … …
Due to historical reasons, Beijing Lantern has its own elegant temperament, rich palace style and full of "Beijing flavor".
The "Beijing flavor" of Beijing lanterns comes from the support of the court. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing for holidays, which led to a sharp increase in the demand for lanterns here. Since then, craftsmen from all over the country have gathered here to learn from others.
The craftsmanship they brought, exchanged, collided and merged in this city, forming a unique court feature: excellent materials, well-formed form and auspicious meaning.
Kaifeng lantern
Kaifeng has a long history of lanterns.
After Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Lantern Festival was held in unprecedented splendor, which was recorded in the Dream of China in Tokyo written by Meng Yuanlao in the Song Dynasty.
Bianjing Lantern Zhang, which has been passed down for six generations, originated from Kaifeng folks in terms of its modeling and pasting skills, and its "Dragon and Phoenix Lantern", "Lotus Lantern" and "Peony Lantern" are vivid.
Luoyang lantern
Use four words to describe Luoyang Lantern, which is graceful and elegant.
Here, the palace culture and folk culture blend, creating a richer style and type. As an old-fashioned palace lantern, the round gauze lantern is the main product of Luoyang Palace Lantern. It is made of bamboo produced in Luoning County and covered with gauze and silk. More than 70 processes are extremely exquisite.
Jining Weishan lake lamp
What is the lamp steamed from flour?
In Weishan Lake, Jining, every Lantern Festival, fishermen’s housewives are busy, mixing and making dough, and making a variety of face lights, including zodiac lights, lotus lights, dragon lights and fish lights … …
Among them, the dragon lantern is the best test of fishermen’s skills, and the skills are not refined, which will steam out a fat and distorted faucet. Good skills, the dragon head and dragon body are lifelike.
After steaming, add the core and oil to the surface lamp, and you can put it on the boat to light it up. I hope that the next day will be smooth and fruitful.
Yangzhou dengcai
Yangzhou lanterns are very gorgeous.
In Tai Ping Guang Ji, the Tang Dynasty Yangzhou Lantern Festival was still in full swing. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many masters of lantern making, and Yangzhou lanterns were popular all over the country.
Yangzhou lanterns are mostly small and exquisite, with delicate and smooth lines, bright but not vulgar colors, bright but not demon.
Sudeng
Su Deng, which is rich in the charm of Wu culture, combines painting, paper-cutting, weaving, embroidery and other skills, and is unique among many colored lights.
Su Deng was famous in the Song Dynasty. In the palace, the Lantern Festival was decorated with lanterns and colorful lanterns, and Su Deng was often used.
On the Lantern Festival, the colored lights in Shantang Street are swaying, and the Shantang River is set off by flowing green waves, which is a beautiful scene.
Hangzhou lantern
The lanterns in Hangzhou are simple and elegant, and the rhythm of the water town can be seen everywhere.
After the 10th day of the first month, every household in Hangzhou section of the Canal is busy making and buying lanterns. There are many forms and varieties of lanterns. There are rabbit lanterns, silver ingot lanterns, dragon lanterns, tiger lanterns and the Goddess Chang’e flying to the moon lanterns.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, a bright moon hung high on the horizon, and tens of thousands of lanterns were brightly lit. The people of the canal took advantage of the afterglow of the New Year, braved the chill of early spring, watched the lanterns on the moon, shot tigers with riddles, sang all night, and everywhere was filled with a festive atmosphere.
Yuan is the beginning. Night is night.
Yuanxiao means the first full moon night of the new year.
Since that night, everything has awakened and flowers have blossomed.
The moon moves to the west, and that lantern is the street lamp that returns to the earth in spring.
Text | Modern Express+Reporter Wang Ziyang Amy Emilie Figure | Xinhua News Agency, Xinhuanet, Suzhou
