Chinese lanterns and collectively referred to as Deng Cai. Originated in the Western Han Dynasty over 1,800 years ago during the 15th annual Lunar New Year before and after the Lantern Festival, people put up symbolic significance of the red lanterns reunion, to create a festive atmosphere. Later lanterns became a symbol of the Chinese people happy. After successive Dengcai the inheritance and development of artists, formed a colorful variety and superb level of technology. From the types are: palace lantern, Shadeng, chandeliers, and so on. From modeling on the points, figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, Longfeng, Yu Chong, etc. In addition there are specially designed for people Shangwan the Zouma Deng. China's Deng Cai integrated the arts of painting, paper cutting, Zhizha, gill slit, such as technology, produced by the various regions of the bamboo, wood, rattan, straw, animal angle, metal, Aya, and other materials produced by silk. In ancient China the production of Deng Cai, a palace lantern and Shadeng most famous.

Lanterns, is a kind of ancient lamps, as early as the 8th century BC in the Tang dynasty have been documented by the use of lanterns. HEC is the Qin and Han Chinese after the matter, paper lanterns and may be in the Eastern Han Dynasty after the invention of paper, the Lantern Festival Guandeng custom originated in the early Han Dynasty, but also in the Lantern Festival in the Tang Minghuang Legend has it on the Chen-yang Palace Dengying, To celebrate world peace before lighting up through flashing lights volatile, a symbol of Dragon, the Fu Guoqiang, lantern culture also still widely popular.



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