Changyi ancient rare old man to make a wonderful turning lamp Ingenuity adhere to the traditional skills

Qilu Network Lightning News January 25 news In The North White Pagoda Village of Longchi Town, Changyi City, looking at the lanterns in the New Year is a good memory for many elderly people. The White Tower Turning Lamp, also known as the White Tower Ancient Lamp, has a long history and flourished.

Chen Xiangtian, the inheritor of the Baita Ancient Lantern of the Changyi Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, said that because the ancestor of the Chen clan of the North White Pagoda had served as a ZhiXian County, when he stepped down in the later period, the people sent a lot of lamps, and future generations were proud of running lantern festivals and tying lamps because of this matter.

The shape of the white tower lamp is mostly hexagonal or rectangular, the lamp is installed with an umbrella, a candle or bulb is lit under the umbrella, the air is heated to form an updraft, and the air flow urges the umbrella to rotate, driving the wind drum pattern to rotate, resulting in wonderful changes. The white tower turning lights come in a variety of forms, the most distinctive of which is the change lamp.

The production process of the white tower lamp is cumbersome, and it needs to go through seven or eight processes such as tying the lamp stand, putting on the lamp coat, making the umbrella, and installing the inner lamp, and each step requires patient and meticulous work. Chen Xiangtian said that every place of the white tower lamp belongs to the difficulty, the choice of materials is not good, the lamp deformation, do not turn after doing a good job, the lamp coat is too tight and easy to break, the most important thing is the umbrella and the wind pipe, the production of it has an optimal size, the formation of this best size must go through many tests.

Nowadays, the craftsmanship of turning lamps is gradually declining, and the 70-year-old Chen Xiangtian is still sticking to it, although facing difficulties, but also continuing the hope of craftsmanship inheritance.

Lightning News reporter Yu Gang Changyi Rong Media Liu Zhiqiang Zhao Zhenfeng Reported in Weifang