Simple lantern making

Chinese lantern in sui

The Sui’s affinity of China in 581 ushered in the rapidly amusing and bread-and-butter development of China. In the Tang Absolutism culminating periods of the Feudal association in China, the ability and abridgement bloomed and the actual and airy activity of the humans was still richer than anytime before. At that time corrective lanterns with a bifold action of abating and acknowledgment as able-bodied as those with a action of advantage were at a ample calibration produced. The corrective lamps and lanterns chiefly acclimated in the administrative alcazar were alleged cloister lanterns. From again on, the age-old lamps and lanterns in China developed beside forth two curve businesslike lamps and cloister lanterns. The bearing of cloister lanterns, getting carefully associated with the custom of blind lanterns in the Yuan Xiao Festival on the day of the 15th of the aboriginal lunar month, was a abundant accident in the history of lamp and lantern in China. In the Tang Dynasty, the variety, abundance and superior of the lamp and lantern far surpassed that in the accomplished dynasty, its architecture and beautification embodying the amplitude and allure of Tang Dynasty. In a book Journey of Geography wrote in the year of 903, one of Arabic geographers accustomed the cottony products, ceramics and ceramics and lantern in China as the three acclaimed admirable productions in the world. There by, the lamp and lantern in the Tang Absolutism laid abundant access on the relationships amid China and adopted countries.

Who held lantern carnivals?

Lantern carnivals are generally organized by the government to produce lantern carnivals are usually produced by the company to production. Lantern custom you can look at this article

the Lanterns Festival is a long history, according to folklore Lantern Festival, also known as lantern Council is widely popular in China’s integrated traditional folk activities. Lantern Art is integrated light the decorative arts. Lantern Festival is produced from human use of fire, fat, light, lighting and other manufacturing evolved. Suiren the invention of fire by rubbing sticks, human lit the fire, lit the torch, this fire, the torch is the origin of the original lamp.

Folk Chinese Lantern Festival with development of social productivity, human beings began to plant and animal and mineral oil wax to make light of the lamp. “Zhou, Heng Secretary’s” Where the state of the event set for court Liao candle, candle candle Ma also can be seen, there will be a candle light Chou. To the Warring States Period, light manufacturing technology boom, which in Qu Yuan’s “Songs of the South” has been expressed in respect of: blue copper cream Ming Zhu Hua wrong. Han is the peak of copper production lamps. “Xijing Notes” set: into the Xianyang Gong Han emperor, Qin Youqing Yu-5 lamps, high-seven feet Wucun, mainly as Pan Chi, light mouth, burning the scales are fixed, Huan-Ping if USS Yingying. To the Tang Dynasty, put lights into unprecedented Lantern lights city lights round the capital for sophomore of feet, clothing to Kam-chi, decorated with gold and silver, burning 50,000 lights, such as clusters of trees and flowers. After that, activities around the cartoon lantern is particularly popular. Song, lantern developed to its peak, thousands of styles changes. “Beautiful Dream to Tokyo,” it reads: Bianjing (Kaifeng) Palace Tingzha do light mountain, there is Samantabhadra, Manjusri Buddha riding a lion, a white elephant and other lights.

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The new year lantern in Taiwan- Happy Year of the Tiger at 2010 Taiwan Lantern Festival

The new year lantern in Taiwan- Happy Year of the Tiger at 2010 Taiwan Lantern Festival, raised the general public who request, to attract long queues of people every day long, as to send a limited number have left the public and weekends.

Chiayi City Government said that many people respond, the afternoon sent a small lantern, a time when work and school hours, not to obtain, at night during a visit to the lantern, small lantern has long been obtained from a blank. The city government decided, 5 to 7 March from 6 pm every day, 3,000 per day Plus Free small lantern light, which is sent to the original point of the addition of two 1,500 light hair, three days a total of 9,000 additional fat light, so that more people can get cute and fun little lantern.

Tiger wants to take a small lantern happy 99 people, March 5 until 7 days only, daily 14:30, 18:00, can be to the Lantern Festival on the 1st main desk (public kindergarten Ming Road, Fu States side) and 8 Desk (Chiayi Park main entrance) to send the two points obtained by the city staff issued number plate, while supplies last. People are welcome to obtain the scene.

farm and lanterns

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A three-year-old ewe got ashore in the wire of a Chinese Lanterns that had landed on Arnold Lancaster’s Bracken Barrow Farm, in Torver.

Mr Lancaster, 66, said the sheep got its arch ashore in the lantern’s wire anatomy and had become absorbed to a juniper tree.

Mr Lancaster, of Green Cottage, Torver, said: “When I came beyond it, the wire had cut beyond the neck.

“You could see the windpipe. On addition day, the red lantern could accept cut its arch off.

“An complete ban would be a acceptable idea. Any beastly could get it about the bottom and it could cut it off.

“It’s complete thin, aciculate wire. Very thin, but blood-soaked strong. It’s about like cheese wire.”

Mr Lancaster believes the sheep had been ashore there for three to four days.

He advised the sheep’s wounds and said it has back fabricated a acceptable recovery.

But his backbone ran out on Sunday if he begin two added of the lanterns, a accepted change which floast in the air if a candle is lit central one, on his farm. Mr Lancaster thinks the lanterns aswell accession clutter and blaze hazard issues – two added affidavit why he believes the ban is necessary.

David Rogers, of The Larches, in Torver, beatific an e-mail annular to humans in the archdiocese on Sunday to highlight the issue.

He said he is traveling to ask guesthouse and anniversary home owners if they can put up posters in their bounds to highlight the abeyant problems lanterns pose.

Carl Hudspith, National Farmers Abutment columnist administrator for the arctic west, said the abutment has been lobbying the Government’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills back September to get an access ban on the products.

He said: “That is still a plan in progress.

“There is a lot of allocution about them getting degradable, but the botheration is that the ones that are degradable do not necessarily abase aural the agriculture cycle.

“This is not the NFU getting party-poopers, they can be adverse to livestock.

“Some are fabricated with bamboo, which is even added of a botheration because, if the grass gets cut to accomplish silage, if the bamboo gets in there, it can finer accomplish little needles.

The Palace Museum in Taipei

The 12 episodes of the television documentary on China Central Television (CCTV), Channel 1 is from January 12 and January 23 is CCTV Vice Feng Gao said Wednesday.

A documentary entitled The Palace Museum in Taipei will tell you why we have two museums of the Palais – one located in Beijing, the other in Taipei.

Before 1925, the palace is the Museum of the Forbidden City, Imperial Palace of Ming and Qing was known. When Pu Yi, last emperor of the dynasty Qing (1644-1840), the red walls, the largest museum in China leading up there.

In 1933, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the authorities decided to let the fund’s Palace Museum collection, rather than draining into the hands of the enemy.

Over the 32 years that followed, the most important parts of the collection of the museum, packed and shipped to Shanghai, Nanjing, Sichuan Province, then in Taiwan.

The large collection of royal treasure house of ancient art, a National Palace Museum in Taipei was built in 1965. National Palace Museum was then informally known as the Palace Museum in Taipei. Millions of visitors at home and abroad, the museum was. However, all of the stories behind them became public only rarely.

The Palace Museum in Taipei is the first documentary that captures the adventurous journey. In the film, not just the public with valuable antiques in the Palace Museum in Taipei will show conditions, but the spirit of conservation should be suspended, the documentary filmmaker Zhou Bing.

During the wars of the past century, researchers have made great efforts to protect the cultural treasures of China and not stop their research, despite the miserable conditions. They have a perfect example for us to preserve the Chinese cultural heritage. And I hope that our work can be a part of the protection of traditional culture we are, said Zhu Bing.

Apart from a new documentary – The Palace Museum – which was the first time in the air for CCTV in 2005, this new context, the audience is half of its history Palace Museum, said Gao Feng.

Unless they lost to two museums in Beijing and Taipei, and many other cultural relics of the Palace Museum houses or stolen from foreign countries since the mid-19th century to early 20th century. One day, when we have another one documentary on the late part of the overseas Chinese relics, we will be able to proclaim proudly that we are entirely the work of collecting the whole history of the Palace Museum in TV programs.

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There is a Chinese character meaning happiness

According to ancient tradition, the Chinese believe they can attract Good Luck when they talk about happiness , objects, or happiness and the terms of the customs authorities have already issued today. Therefore, the Chinese are everywhere C auspicious symbols for arts, crafts, architecture, household items and are part of the celebrations, special occasions, etc.

For example: 1 There is a Chinese character meaning happiness , happiness or happiness in general. It is usually decorated in Chinese knots, painting or other objects.

2. Chinese scepter, it is desirable in the rule as Ruyi in China, which means All that I love. In other words, as you want. The shape of the rod is Chinese magic mushroom of immortality Lingzhi or Reishi be shot in Japanese.

3. This is a Chinese character meaning life is very popular among the Chinese symbols of luck. This is the estimated value of Shu in China that many Chinese homes displaying this symbol of longevity.
The crane, turtle, fish, pine, etc., all senses of the term long life are in China.

4. It’s two Chinese characters s meaning festival or happy . The Chinese double happiness symbol is synonymous with marriage. In antiquity, are usually decorated in the Chinese paper cutting. The red paper cut XI added to doors and walls of Chinese weddings and the bridal chamber like a Chinese Lantern , and the hope that two newlyweds to have happiness together. But now you see that sign, everywhere.

5. Fish is the ultimate symbol of wealth and abundance of sounds like plenty. Therefore, in the lantern festival entrepreneurs love a bowl of gold fish at the office or home, a symbol of wealth and no. It is usually a boy, and Lotus, and means abundance summaries consecutive years. Since the word persimmon Lian, the same pronunciation as the word continuous . More information can be found in our online store come to see the depth of the culture of China on symbols of luck.

Shanghai which has a time the reputation of a city

To bring the public back at the height of its glory days in Shanghai in 1920 and 30 to have the Briton Norman Gosney, when the lantern festival curtain of the east and west of the city, New increases in Chinatown.

Ironically, built on an ancient Japanese Buddhist temple Hongkou District, in 1931, Chinatown is a blend of Broadway, cabaret, the Moulin Rouge and vaudeville shows classic Vegas live with Chinese acrobatics.

The scene, his debut in goal last week, the ancient people of Shanghai, which has a time the reputation of a city that never sleeps, with its many nightclubs and reminds you go-go girls said Gosney, who with his wife of showgirl Amelia Kallman, the Chinese Lantern are the creators of Chinatown.

The 63 years who came to Shanghai two years ago, a quarter of a century of experience in leading shows in New York and Los Angeles began to conspire Chinatown after conducting a show as fun bourgeoning art missing from the city and cultural spaces.

To bring the public back at the height of its glory days in Shanghai in 1920 and 30 to have the Briton Norman Gosney, when the most beautiful lantern in the world of the east and west of the city, New increases in Chinatown.

Shanghai is a new international city, a city whose level must be fun at the same level in New York, Paris and London to strengthen, he said.

Gosney said the name of the program Chinatown , because every major international city in the world has a Chinatown, and so far has not Shanghai.

Starring in the show are American Frank Bray, Gosney as the No. 1 lounge singer in the world today who can sing, dance and charm the pants of everybody.

Chinatown also shows sexy Showgirls, two Chinese and Western, and Chinese acrobats, high-skilled, and a series of brilliant costumes and costumes.

The public is invited to read the Chinatown , the clock for periods between 8 am and 2 shows Wednesday through Saturday (Sunday through Tuesday is reserved for individuals). No charge coverage is essential if clients choose the balcony seating. The machines start at 2,000 yuan. The Observatory Bar on the third floor, overlooking the good phase of the Victorian era. Drinks to Chinatown starts at 70 yuan per glass.

When you exit the Chinatown , before returning to the city, it is advisable to check the building next to the road Zhapu 439, another Japanese Buddhist temple in antiquity.

Addressed an audience once again participated in the prosperity of Shanghai Day of glory in the 1920s and 30s, Briton Norman Gosney, the curtain, where the east and west of the city, the new Chinatown increases. (Photo Source: China Daily)

Chinese New Year 2010 falls February 14

Chinese New Year is celebrated as the symbol of the festival of spring. In fact, China, Chinese New Year is still the Spring Lantern Festival. It is celebrated after harvesting and before the fall planting of spring. The date of Chinese New Year is always changing and depends on the Chinese calendar. Emperor Huangdi invented in 2637 BC the Chinese calendar.  The Chinese calendar is a combination of solar and lunar calendar is similar to the Chinese calendar. To determine the date of Chinese New Year, some astronomical calculations, should be maintained. First a China blog, we must determine the dates of the new moon. The new moon is the dark moon, which is when the moon is in conjunction with the sun.

The date of the new moon is considered the first day of the new month. Secondly, the dates will be determined when the sun is the length of multiples of 30 degrees. These data have been identified as the basic conditions used to determine the number of monthly.

The start of the term 1 occurs when the sun is 330 degrees longitude, the 2nd Concept authority occurs when the sun is 0 degrees longitude. The beginning of Term 3 occurs when the sun is 30 degrees longitude, the expression of the principle 11 occurs when the Sun crosses the runway is 270 degrees, and the meaning of the principle of 12, when the sun is 300 degrees longitude.

The current cycle of 60 years in the Lantern Festival facts Chinese calendar began Feb. 2, 1984. Out some dates for the new Chinese last year and the future of the Chinese New Year.

Whenever the occasion of the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is our national traditional festivals, the great festival, so the eyes of people very important. It also coincided with the first full moon after the Spring Festival night in January, said in January the night known as the “Xiao”, so called the Lantern Festival.

Chinese Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Han in the pacification of legend, “Zhu Lv Rebellion” follow-bit became the emperor, while the insurgency is precisely the fifteenth day, so then, every fifteenth night, the Han Emperor must Chugong with the public music, on the set this day as the Lantern Festival. After the Han Emperor Ming Lantern Festival Lotus Lantern another Decree, then known as “Festival of Lights,” “light evening.” Legend fifteenth day is “days of official birth date”, so called “Lantern Festival.”

Ancient times to now, the main Lantern Displays customs folk Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is eating and watching lantern, guess riddles. Ming and Qing dynasties, women were also “Walking Bridge, touch light” practices. Old, to the Sixteenth night, the women are cast white damask shirt, hand in hand forces in the line, walk in front of the move incense to clear the way, followed by other women termed “Walk sickness,” Fraction too Bridge, that the “degree of Ecuador.” It is said that the bridge are able to protect one-year disease-free waist and legs, health and longevity. After the bridge, the women wanted to go to the city gates on the openings to touch the Brass Nails, saying the move as “men should” can be a boy.

Whenever the occasion of the Lantern Festival, the court also decorated, the officials leave, to lift the curfew, people can travel Guandeng night. Festival day period from the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty three-day, five days of development of the Song Dynasty to the Ming’s 10 days, from January to the eighth day on the 17th night only. Day for the city at night as the lights, very spectacular. So called the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, simply because light Guandeng the main content of this holiday. 13 the first month of “the lights” on the 14th for the “test lights”, on the 15th as “positive light”, on the 17th for the “strike light” also known as “Can Deng,” or “À» Light. ” Beijing Ming Dynasty, when the lights in this city is located in Dongcheng District Dengshikou. At that time light and the City is unity, the Lantern Festival night in Dengshikou the whole street, in addition to the business district, decorated on both sides, the jewelry jade, daily necessities, more eateries. To the Qing Dynasty, the separated light and the city, “city” go Liulichang, Ling-Yu Gong, “light” is located within the East four arches and ground Yasukado area. The late Qing and early Republican, ground Yasukado, Shishahai area has also been engaged in the first month 15 Ice, very loved by the people. So fifteenth trouble have been circulating since the custom of lantern history Lantern Festival is also popular with many Guandeng stories. Legends, there are a couple in the Song Dynasty Yuan Xiaoye Guan Deng became separated when, to coincide with Huizong thanks to wine, his wife, eager to find Jon, went so far as conveniently porting of the emperor’s Queen’s cup, and Yin Ci Yishou: “Moon penghu bright lights , and Lang hand-to-end doors. greedy see Crane array sheng song and dance, unknowingly lose mandarin duck group. days gradually dawn, a sense of infinite royal, Chuan-Xuan Chi-alcohol drink cups patrol. Wenggu go home for fear was responsible for theft of glass as evidence. “The Merry hear the emperor, but also happy to put a woman Jinbei Shangji, leaving behind a much-told story Lantern Festival.

Past “light” and “mystery” are inseparable, Auckland Lantern Festival is light there must be mystery, so called “riddles”, commonly known as “playing the lights Tiger” (This is from the Guang-shot tigers in Peking derived from the story) . In the Festival of Lights at night is to riddle the general article or attached to the lantern hanging in the Cord, the bonus for those who guess. Some shops are also lanterns hanging mystery, but also specially marked prizes, “If guess who prize apple 3000”, when guess who approached to accept the award, the prize is nothing but an apple on a toothpick stuck in three, this adds joy. Festival of Lights on the usually popular riddle out of humor, interesting. For example, Mimian as “Ba-jie bath” (playing a meat name), the answer is a “pig into the water.” Again, “the farmer, such as soup boiled heart”, (playing the words saying) mystery is “anxious” and so on.

Lantern Festival night, on bringing a moonlight, under the light 10000, heaven and earth each other, they can be described as breathtaking. Fireworks, walking stilts, Pao Hanchuan, playing the lion, a small string of Council, it is also a manifestation of folk culture.

The Lantern Festival’s history, customs, although today, still had reservations, but its festival taste and culture, has long been the Lantern Festival businesses battle diluted a lot. This year’s Lantern Festival folk activities is relatively small, only from the Chaoyang Park in Sichuan, a large lantern, ethnic restaurants riddles Council, the city of some riddles of all the activities of cultural centers, suburban large-scale lantern and flower show performances.

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