Decorate your home with a Chinese style thanks to our most beautiful Chinese lanterns. You will find the most beautiful lanterns on the market, for all tastes! Red lantern traditional lantern flying passing through the paper lantern. Our paper lanterns are available in large quantities and in many colors. If you want more Chinese decoration, go see our collection of Typical Chinese paintings In order to best dress your walls.
History of the lantern
Become a global symbol of China, Chinese lanterns have a very simple origin. Indeed, they were initially simply used as lamps, to enlighten, before the invention of electricity. During the Eastern Hans dynasty, it was common to surround a candle bamboo or wheat straw to stretch a silk fabric around to protect the flame from the wind, thus creating the first Chinese lantern. Little by little, these lanterns were decorated with zodiac animals, Chinese characters or lucky symbols in Chinese calligraphy, to hang at the entrance of a business, a house, or during an event.
Later, these lanterns, the only goal of which was to enlighten, were used by the monks Buddhists During their veneration rituals, especially on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Then, under the order of the emperor Han Wudi, the ritual was extended to the whole Empire, and was no longer the ceremonial of the monks. It was then common for all the Chinese to light a lantern and to wear it to a Buddhist temple. This minor habit has become a real national tradition During the Tang dynasty, and is still celebrated today in China today. The fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese calendar is today called Lantern Festival. This day is the most important celebration in China, and thousands of lanterns can be seen illuminating the sky of China to celebrate the end of Chinese New Year.
All about Chinese lanterns
There are several types of Chinese lanterns, so we are sure to find it for its taste, and for every occasion! Lanterns can be categorized in three categories: lanterns with hang or at suspend, the lanterns flying, and the lanterns to put on the water. The oldest are the royal lanterns, which are still the most popular today. These are red lanterns, in silk or paper, used in the old days to light the palaces and temples. They generally have a flat flat shape or a form of ball. Chinese New Year is the event where we can see the most red lanterns in the streets. But today, Chinese lanterns have diversified a lot, and there are in many different materials. If the paper lantern remains the most popular, there are also a gauze, paper silk, rice paper, silk, various fabrics ... There are even more lanterns fantasy : in the shape of Chinese zodiac animals, cartoons of cartoons, lotus or multicolored flowers ... Lanterns can today respond to all types of requests. There are even adapted to ecology, which are biodegradable or fitted with a vegetable wax burner!
Use of Chinese lanterns
To use lanterns, nothing could be simpler! Just place a small candle on the base provided for this purpose, and let the magic operate. If you don't like candles, there are also a lot of lanterns that work thanks to LEDs. But be aware that it is also very common, in China, to use the lampion without burner, since the red lanterns are not only decorative: they are also considered to be powerful strap. It is then common to see them at the entrance to the stores, not only as decorations, but above all to bring good fortune to the shop. The lamp is even sometimes replaced by a LED candle. These suspended paper lanterns are then frequently decorated with accurate carriers. In China as in the West, lanterns often appeal to young couples who decide to use them as a wedding decoration, either as a reception room, or celestial lanterns, or flying lanterns, to offer a spectacle of lantern. magical to all guests. This flying lantern then works like a hot air balloon, with the hot air of the candle which comes to hit the ball to make it fly away. The lantern garland is also very successful and is a superb colorful decoration for an interior or a garden.
