Urumqi, February 23 (Shi Yujiang, Zhang Fangjun) "When the moon is full, the lights are new, and the lights are as white as silver all over the city. "Every Lantern Festival, the lanterns have reached the "hot sales period".
In the past, the lanterns were made of paper paste, and although there were not many styles, they were full of the persistence and technical inheritance of the makers. With the development of science and technology, handmade lanterns are gradually replaced by machines......In recent years, hand-made lanterns have gradually appeared in the public eye, in the 224th Regiment of Kunyu City, the 14th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there is a lantern craftsman Song Yu, who inherits the old craftsmanship with love.
Song Yu is giving a congratulatory message to the ingots lantern. Photo by Zhang Fangjun In the rainy season, a heavy snow made the entire Kunyu City quiet, but in the home of Song Yu, a worker of the Seventh Company of the 224th Regiment, he was extremely busy, drawing drawings, making shapes, welding skeletons, and cloth lamps.
The Lantern Festival is coming, and many companies of the 224th Regiment have ordered lanterns in the shape of dragons and ingots here. Song Yu, a worker of the Seventh Company of the 224th Regiment, told reporters on the 22nd that in the past, red willow branches were used to make the skeleton of the lantern, and later bamboo, and then to the steel bars in recent years.
There are people who like to learn crafts, as long as they come, I will teach, and they don't charge a penny, they can work with me when they come, and they can also have a little income. Song Yu said.
Song Yu's apprentice Roger is installing the faucet. In 2009, he took the initiative to use his spare time to learn carving techniques from Song Yu, and two years later, he often followed the "master" Song Yu to do some projects, and this time he was also the "main force" in the production of lanterns.
I am more interested in stone carving, wood carving and making lanterns, so I go to Master Song to study with him in my spare time, and I can also increase my income during my leisure time. Roger said.
In addition to Roger, there were more than a dozen neighbors who came to help at the lantern making site, and everyone talked about the meaning of the lantern while doing it, and the scene was a lively scene.
Before the Lantern Festival, the local lanterns with colorful and unique shapes show the positive spiritual outlook of the workers in the new era and their yearning and confidence in a better life. (ENDS).