Anhui "Post 90s" Girls Make Traditional Lanterns "Out of Circle": The Cultural Core Remains unchanged
2023-03-20
The picture shows Ruihe Lantern. "Young people nowadays are increasingly fond of traditional culture, and I hope that excellent traditional culture can be seen and understood by more people." Recently, Zhou Xinwei, a girl from Anhui's "post 90s generation" generation, made an exquisite flower lantern called "Fire Out of Circle", and talked about her feelings. Zhou Xinwei is a native of Fuyang, Anhui Province. Since childhood, she has heard from her mother that grandpa's lamp making skills are very good. During holidays, grandpa makes paper lanterns for the children at home, and must be the most exquisite in the village. Unfortunately, due to the early death of my grandfather, from Zhou Xinwei's memory, there were only plastic lanterns playing music on the streets. "Not having a childhood lantern" became Zhou Xinwei's regret. After entering college in 2010, she began to use her spare time to ponder how to make flower lanterns. "Making a flower lantern for the first time is much more difficult than expected, and I managed to finish it after stumbling and stumbling." The picture shows a fish lantern. Interviewee Zhou Xinwei introduced that traditional flower lanterns needed bamboo strips as a framework. At that time, online shopping was not very developed, and it was difficult to find them in real life. Therefore, they had to replace bamboo strips with iron wires. "The surface of the iron wire is too smooth, and the paper can easily fall off when pasted. Without technical skills, she has to stick her scalp and paste it layer by layer.". Despite a bad start, interest remained. Therefore, Zhou Xinwei began to study through online videos and books, examining the exterior shape, colors, patterns, and interior structure of the lantern one by one. She also often visits museums, ancient art exhibitions, and auctions to seek inspiration for production, while exclaiming at the vastness of Chinese culture. After a period of accumulation and exploration, in the 2022 Spring Festival, a video of Huizhou playing fish lanterns once again "ignited" her enthusiasm for making lanterns. The Wangmantian fish lantern in the video is the traditional folk custom of She County, Mount Huangshan City, Anhui Province, which has been passed down for more than 600 years. Every year from the 13th to the 16th of the first lunar month, people visit the village with fish lanterns, praying for more than a year and prosperity for their children and grandchildren. "Traditional lanterns are not necessarily just imitations and reproductions of existing antiquities, but they can also incorporate more elements without affecting the overall situation." Zhou Xinwei said that when making fish lanterns, he added the image of the mythical creature "Kunpeng" to them, making them more flexible and flexible. The picture shows a jade rabbit pestering lamp. To her surprise, the interviewee uploaded a picture of the fish lamp to the internet, quickly attracting netizens to watch. "Everyone's love has made Zhou Xinwei's creative desire to" explode ". Ruihe, Toad, and Jade Rabbit have made medicinal herbs... In one year, she has produced more than 20 lanterns with different shapes, each with its own ingenuity.". In the auspicious crane lamp, she used gold to outline the feathers of the crane, and painted the sun and moon patterns on the left and right wings, with a circle of crane patterns painted in the middle to give the crane more lively fireworks; On the back of the crab lamp, there are patterns of Shanghai's waterfront, as well as small houses and bird shadows, which symbolize "adding to the ocean"; Add the principle of a toy chicken pecking rice to the jade rabbit pestering lamp, and the two lovely jade rabbits instantly move. "How awesome, the traditional lanterns are so beautiful." "The national wind is back." "The memories of childhood are so beautiful, right?"... In March this year, Zhou Xinwei's video of making flower lanterns was posted online
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