| Palace-lantern craftwork, also called Colorful lighting craftwork, is the Chinese traditional handicraft with a great history. On holidays or occasions, people often hang up colorful lanterns and festoons for celebrations. The decorative lighting is made up of bamboo splint, lead wire, or hardwood strips as the skeleton, and pastes up the painted paper, gauze, silk or sheepskin as its coverage, also some decorative lightings by the jade, the colored glaze, the wheat straw, the pottery clay, the peel, egg-shell, etc. as raw materials. During the ancient times, the decorative lighting mainly serves as the illumination. As the development of its making technique, the painted lantern appeared in 2 century B.C. and has been gradually used as decorative items in China. By 7 century A.D., the technique of decorative lighting craft hastens has been enhanced. In China the decorative lighting is rich in variety, the material quality is diverse, and can be fournd everywhere. |
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