Qinhuai lantern

The origin of Qinhuai lantern colour can be traced back to the Eastern Wu period, it draws on the traditional Chinese paper tie, painting, calligraphy, paper cutting, shadow puppetry, embroidery, sculpture and other arts, in the production of integrated carpentry, lacquer, painting, carving, clay sculpture, knotting and many other technical means.

Three years later, he ordered that outside the noon gate of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, skilled craftsmen should tie up the "Long Live" lamp on Aoshan Mountain, accompanied by song and dance.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the lantern custom in Nanjing became more and more deserted, showing a situation of decline.

He dredged the Qinhuai River, he led the rebuiduilding in the Confucius Temple, and the traditional custom of Lantern Viewing was restored and developed.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, due to internal and external troubles, the people did not have a good life, and the development of lantern art declined.

In the three or four years after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the people's livelihood in Nanjing was withering, inflation was serious, and the lights of Qinhuai also declined.

[9] Qinhuai lantern production materials are mainly bamboo, trees, rattan, wheat straw, animal horns, metals, etc.

The materials that constitute the light source are determined according to the level of development of productive forces in different historical periods, from the beginning of the Six Dynasties to the modern era, mainly using pine resin, animal and vegetable oil, lacquer, paraffin, kerosene and other fuels, with bamboo, grass, cotton core, etc.

In the application of artistic means, Qinhuai Lantern Color draws on the traditional Chinese artistic experience and related techniques such as paper tying, painting, calligraphy, paper-cutting, shadow puppet embroidery, sculpture; and integrates the process skills of carpentry, lacquer work, painting, carving, clay sculpture, knotting, mounting paste, welding, mechanical transmission, sound and light sound, electronic program control and so on.