1. Fold the cardboard in half and cut it with scissors at a certain distance.

2. Roll the card paper a few times, it looks very radian.

3. Open the cardboard, stick double-sided tape on one side and stick it on the other.

4. Make the glued drum into plastic, thread a few threads at both ends of the lantern with a needle, and tie disposable chopsticks at one end of the thread.

5. Cut the cardboard into thin strips with scissors and tie them on lanterns.

The origin of lanterns

Lantern is an ancient lamp. As early as the eighth century BC, in the Tang Dynasty, the reasons for using lanterns were recorded. There were lanterns in China after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns may have been invented after the Western Han Dynasty. The custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival originated in the early Han Dynasty, but it is also said that Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty set off lanterns in Shangyang Palace during the Lantern Festival to celebrate the peace of the country and the people, and then tied the lanterns.

There are many theories about the origin of playing lanterns. One of them is that the custom of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty advocated Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks observed Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha. He ordered that lights should be lit in palaces and temples to worship Buddha that night, so that all the cremation and ordinary people could hang lights.

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