The Lantern Festival is coming. The street market is full of lanterns.
So, have you ever seen a traditional handmade paper lantern?
What is the paper lantern played by the post-80s and post-90s children?
In the Zhengzhou small commodities wholesale market, can you still find the figure of traditional style paper lanterns?
○ Do you remember the paper lantern you mentioned when you were a child?
Ms. Shin's handmade traditional style paper lantern has the "taste" of childhood
Ms. Shin's handmade lanterns for last year's Lantern Festival are still on display
The Lantern Festival is approaching, and all kinds of lanterns on the streets are selling well, and this festive atmosphere reminds many post-80s of the paper lanterns they carried when they were young.
Ms. Shen, who is in her 60s this year, said that their children are post-80s, and when the children are young, when it comes to the Lantern Festival, she will handmade paper lanterns for the children. Green paper, red paper, yellow paper, white paper and other colors of paper, the bamboo is broken, broken into bamboo strips, with noodles and water and into a paste, hand glued into paper lanterns. On the evening of the Lantern Festival, a candle is lit inside, and children carry them around the streets. There are various shapes such as chickens and rabbits. Some also dig a small pit with turnips, put some lard or sesame oil in it, and put a lead (nian) made of cotton in it.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, everyone runs to the street and plays with lanterns.
"Everyone compares and compares to see whose lantern looks good." Ms. Shen said that this year's Lantern Festival, seeing more industrialized plastic lanterns on the street, she took matters into her own hands, using waste materials such as red paper and wire ropes that were idle and unused at home to handmade paper lanterns for her grandson.
In addition, he dug out two eyes with oranges, dug a small cover, lifted it with a thread, and made a small orange lantern-style fruit lantern. This also made the little grandson overjoyed.
Ms. Shin made a creative lantern in the shape of a "little orange lamp" for her little grandson
○ The Lantern Festival is approaching, and all kinds of lanterns in the small commodity city are selling well
On February 13, the video reporter of Dahe News yu came to Zhengzhou Railway Station Small Commodity City for a visit.
After visiting, it was found that the lanterns that are more common in the wholesale market are mainly made of flocking or silk cloth, and some are plastic and oil-plastic paper; and the materials used in the lantern skeleton are mainly bamboo, plastic and iron wire.
The price of the lantern is based on the production material, style and size to be formulated, the smallest lantern diameter is 40 cm, the largest lantern diameter is 150 cm, the price is 10 to 75 yuan a; and the kind of plastic paper lantern made of oil-plastic paper, his volume is relatively small, the diameter is generally 15 cm to 45 cm, this kind of lantern is mostly strung together into a string, the number of a string is generally 3 to 5.
"The original price of flocked cloth lanterns is 23 yuan a piece, if you buy more, the wholesale price is 20 yuan." The wholesale market merchant said that the Lantern Festival is approaching, and all kinds of lantern sales are hot, "Many people go back to sell wholesale, they all want to make the Lantern Festival lively, but also can make more money." ”
On the evening of February 13, on a street in Huiji District, Zhengzhou City, the Dahe Newspaper Yu video reporter saw that someone returned from the wholesale lanterns of the railway station small commodity city, and then sold along the street, 25 yuan a plastic lantern, after customer bargaining, sold to 22 yuan a piece. Round, cylindrical, and varied in style. There are two batteries installed inside, the switch is turned on, and the warm light is particularly beautiful in the night.
This mobile vendor's bunch of lanterns, very popular with children, was quickly sold out. These lanterns are also chic. There are the words "Blessing" and the words "Auspicious Ruyi" and other blessings on it. After the lantern is lit, it can also reflect the words of auspicious blessings such as "Tim Ting Into Wealth" on the ground.
During the visit, the reporter of Dahe Bao Yu video saw that there were also paper lanterns sold in the market, but compared with the traditional paper lanterns mentioned by Ms. Ni, there was still a certain difference.
Source: Dahe News Yu video reporter Ning Tiantian
Source: Big River Newspaper