Yuehu Lantern Making Technique (the fourth provincial level batch) Yuehu Lantern, also known as Yuehu District Lantern, is a major characteristic cultural product of Yuehu District folk festival cultural activities. According to local historical records, the custom of lantern making began in the Song Dynasty. During the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, every household in Yuehu District, urban and rural areas, decorated with lanterns to show peace and joy. Xie Fangde, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, was a guest at a local relative's house. After watching the lanterns, he left the poem "The wharf is worshipped by tens of thousands of people during the day, and Xinhe enjoys thousands of lanterns at night." This custom has continued until the early 1960s and expanded to local temple fairs. Yuehu lanterns are made of fine wood, with a fine and sophisticated frame. They are in the shape of four-sided, six-sided, eight-sided, etc., and are generally 0.5 meters to 0.7 meters high. Each fan has a pattern, and the content includes self-selected dramas, allusions, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. The pictures are interrelated and lit with candles. After nightfall, rows of lights on the street complement each other, colorful and gorgeous. The Yuehu lanterns are divided into palace lanterns, sand lanterns, chandeliers, lion lanterns, etc. in terms of shape; they are divided into land boat lanterns, clamshell lanterns, revolving lanterns, etc. in terms of shape; the most popular among these lanterns is the revolving lantern, which has paper-cut figures, flowers and birds, the twelve zodiac signs, etc. on the surface of the lantern, or riddles on the six or eight sides of the palace lantern. The palace lantern slowly rotates for people to watch and guess, making the palace lantern simple and elegant. From the shape point of view, it has both a sense of elegance and lightness and elegance. It integrates culture and entertainment, and makes people feel like they are in the atmosphere of watching lanterns and guessing riddles in the Grand View Garden in "Dream of Red Mansions". The Yuehu lantern art reflects the wisdom and ingenuity of the Yuehu people. It integrates abstract composition, anthropomorphic sculpture, flat painting and calligraphy, composite decoration and light-driven mechanism, and has become a comprehensive spatial art with strong national characteristics. This art form is also unique because of the introduction of the time factor of light. Lanterns are not only folk art, but also play a role in folk life on a broad social level. They are not just festival decorations and aesthetic objects, but also a widespread and infinite concern for life.