Qingming Bridge Lantern Festival

Jiangsu
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Qingming Bridge Lanterns are a traditional art project in the third batch of representative projects of Wuxi's municipal intangible cultural heritage. Lanterns, known as flower lanterns in ancient times, are a popular folk traditional handicraft art in my country from ancient times to the present, with a civilization history of thousands of years. The production of lanterns in Wuxi can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is said that Xi Shi and Fan Li lived in seclusion in Wuxi Taihu Fish House due to the war. They went boating in the lake at night and made various zodiac lanterns with bamboo candles, which were hung on the boats to illuminate, guide the way and watch, and could not be blown out by the night wind. They also taught local fishermen to make lanterns, so that they had a guide lamp for fishing at night. The Qingming Bridge on the bank of the ancient Grand Canal was not only one of the four major rice markets in ancient times, but also the birthplace of folk lantern art. Lanterns have changed the backward situation of being made of bamboo strips in ancient times. Iron wire, steel bars, angle irons, steel pipes and other materials are used as the skeleton of lanterns, and then silk cloth and other materials are used to paste the frame, and the inner lamps, lamp spikes, rows of whiskers, lace and other decorative materials are used for decoration.

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