[Gong Lantern] What is the palace lamp?

[Gong Lantern] What is the palace lamp?

What is the palace lamp

The palace lantern began in the Eastern Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. It has a strong local characteristics. The palace lamp as the name suggests is the lamp used in the palace.It is famous for its graceful and luxurious and full court.Due to the long -term palace, in addition to lighting, it is also equipped with fine and complicated decorations to show the wealth and luxury of the emperor.The orthodox palace lamp is in star anise, hexagonal, and four -corner. The contents of the drawing screens on each side are mostly dragons and phoenixes, Fushou Yannian, auspicious Ruyi, and so on.

Palace lantern practice

Skeleton

The relatively simple shape of the paper lanterns is cube or cylindrical body. It is best to use the bending bamboo branches or bamboo Skin to form a frame.If it is not easy to find, the slender hard cardboard and the bamboo sticks for barbecue can also be lacking strong and flexible, but it is also a very good decoration in the room.

Make a lamp body

Buy a few pieces of white, red ordinary rice paper or sprinkled gold rice paper in the four treasure shops of the Wenfang, which is cut into the length and width that conforms to the lantern skeleton, and you can design the pattern on your own.Calligraphy, painting, and paper -cutting can all show their style on the small lanterns.After being good, you can also use the narrow strip paper upper and lower edges, which look more elegant, very much like ancient palace lamps.If you are not good at calligraphy and calligraphy, there is a simple way for reference.Use a piece of paper to draw the words you want on the post, and then overlap this thin paper and dark red rice paper together, and dig the handwriting with a single -edged blade.Remove the thin paper, and the hollowed handwriting appeared on the red propaganda paper.Use white rice paper to make the lamp body, the red mission paper pastes inside, the candlelight or light is mapped from the hollowed out, the effect is quite beautiful.

Make light source

If you put it indoors, you only need to light a ordinary candle in the lantern; if you want to carry it out, it is best to use a Light bulb and battery to make a simple circuit.