In order to create a strong atmosphere of the Lantern Festival and let the community residents better feel the charm of traditional culture, recently, the Nitian Women's Federation of Fuhai Street and Xuyuan social workers carried out a handmade lantern making activity, with about 30 residents participating and making 15 wooden lanterns with different characteristics as a family unit.
The activity set up four links: understanding the Lantern Festival, making lanterns, lighting and appreciating lanterns. Before the activity, the social worker asked each participant to take turns to name something related to the Lantern Festival through a game to guide the residents to understand the Lantern Festival culture in different places.
Afterwards, the residents began to make lanterns by choosing different shapes of lampstands, rice paper, watercolor paints, etc., according to their preferences. During the production process, everyone shared their assembly skills and exchanged their own ideas, and the scene was lively and warm. Through step-by-step assembly, fixing, receipt, and pasting, handmade lanterns of different shapes and styles were born in the hands of residents.
In addition, the event site also set up an interactive link of lantern riddle answering and lantern appreciation. Residents use the lantern in their hand as the answerer, and light the lantern as the fastest signal to answer the lantern riddle and win the Lantern Festival dumplings.
The lantern viewing session is even more exciting and lively. Driven by the community women and social workers, everyone took their own unique lanterns to the stage to display, including four-sided lace-shaped lanterns with plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum as the element of traditional culture, square lanterns full of blessings named after peace and joy, round lanterns decorated with fireworks and blessings, and palace lantern-type lanterns with double the difficulty of assembly......The exquisite lanterns swaying in the darkness become a beautiful scenery of the Lantern Festival.
Southern + reporter Hu Baihui.
Correspondents: Lu Huanqing, Liang Jisheng.
Author] Hu Baihui.
*] Southern Press Media Group Nanfang + client.