Lanterns (Chaozhou Lanterns)

Guangdong
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Chaozhou lanterns have a long history and are a great treasure in the treasure house of Chinese folk art. It is a comprehensive art. The Chaozhou songbook "Hundred Screen Lanterns" mostly reflects classic scenes in opera repertoires. Many of the character modeling, facial makeup, costumes, and props are derived from the original drama. The scenery of the screen lanterns and the costumes of the characters are closely related to sculpture and painting. The more high-end character costumes will also use Chao embroidery and gold and silver embroidery. The overall coordinated beauty of screen lanterns and hanging lanterns has a deep origin in color and aesthetics. At the same time, the principles of anatomy and biology are comprehensively infiltrated. There are roughly two categories of Chaozhou lanterns: one is a colorful vertical screen lantern; the other is a colorful hanging lantern that can be hung and carried. Screen lanterns are a kind of comprehensive lantern screens that integrate color tying, painting, embroidery, clay sculpture, and cutting. Each screen has one lantern, with opera and historical figures as its main themes and content, and is equipped with pavilions, landscapes, gardens, and animals to form a screen of scenery, and then equipped with lights to set off. It is the most exquisite type of Chaozhou lantern craftsmanship, and is most famous in Chaozhou City. The hanging lanterns are made of rattan, bamboo, wood and metal strips as frames, covered with silk paper, silk, glass, and then painted with poems and paintings, and then inlaid with decorative tassels, mother-of-pearl, beads, and copper sheets according to the needs of the shape, making it elegant and gorgeous. The production process of Chaozhou lanterns is relatively complicated. Different varieties of lanterns have different materials and production processes. But in general, the production process generally includes several links such as conception, embryo tying, mounting, decoration, and assembly. Chaozhou lanterns are distributed in the Chaoshan area. Chaozhou lanterns have been exhibited all over the country as well as in Singapore, Thailand and other places. Wherever they go, they are welcomed and appreciated by the local people. Chaozhou lanterns are unique in style and have strong local characteristics. As a fixed role in celebrating festivals and sacrificial activities, Chaozhou lanterns have a position that cannot be ignored in Chaozhou culture. In the Yuan Dynasty, when drama was booming, lanterns began to enter the cultural field. At the peak of development, the popular "Hundred Screen Lanterns" appeared, which are still handed down today. Chaozhou lanterns have a deep connection with drama. In the Yuan Dynasty, when drama was booming, lanterns began to appear. The "Hundred Screen Lanterns" that appeared during the heyday of Chaozhou lanterns all expressed classic scenes of drama. The Chaozhou songbook "Hundred Screen Lanterns" is still handed down today. In 2008, Chaozhou lanterns were selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. Chaozhou lanterns are roughly divided into two categories: colorful vertical screen lanterns and colorful painted lanterns that can be hung and carried. Screen lanterns integrate colorful binding, painting, embroidery, clay sculpture, cutting and other crafts, with opera or historical stories as the theme, and are set off by characters, landscapes and lights. Lanterns are made of rattan, bamboo, wood and metal strips as frames, covered with silk paper, silk, glass, painted with poems and paintings, and decorated with tassels, mother-of-pearl, beads, copper sheets, etc. Chaozhou lanterns have been exhibited in Beijing and other places in China, as well as Singapore and Thailand, and have been highly praised. In 2008, they were selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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