Yikes! Handmade paper lanterns "playmates" of the Lantern Festival after the 80s

Ms. Shin made a paper lantern for her children

□ Dahe News Yu video reporter Ning Tian Tianwentu

Lantern Festival, all kinds of lanterns on the streets of Zhengzhou are popular, and this festive atmosphere reminds many post-80s of the paper lanterns they carried when they were young. Zhengzhou Railway Station small commodity city of various lantern sales are hot.

Do you remember the paper lantern you mentioned when you were a child?

Ms. Shen, who is in her 60s this year, said that her 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 radish, put some lard or sesame oil in it, and then put a twist made of cotton, use the fire a little, and there is light inside. On the night of the Lantern Festival, everyone runs to the street and plays with lanterns. "Everyone wants to compare and see whose lantern looks good." Ms. Shin said.

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, she dug out two eyes with oranges, dug a small lid, and lifted it with thread to make a small orange lantern-style fruit lantern. This also made the little grandson overjoyed.

All kinds of lanterns in the small commodity city are hot

Yesterday, the Dahe Newspaper Yu video reporter came to Zhengzhou Railway Station Small Commodity City to visit and found that the more common lanterns 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 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, all kinds of lantern sales are hot, "many people wholesale back to sell, all want to make the Lantern Festival lively, but also can make more money." ”

During the visit, the reporter saw that there are also paper lanterns sold in the market, but compared with the traditional paper lanterns mentioned by Ms. Shen, there is still a certain difference.