In order to welcome the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Jin Guixiang, a villager in Beihuangfaxi Village, Gu'an, Hebei, combined the simple paintings of the Winter Olympics projects with traditional lanterns, and elaborately produced a lantern called "Fate of Ice and Snow" to express his appreciation for the Winter Olympics. Looking forward and blessing.
The lantern is based on red paper that symbolizes joy and auspiciousness, and the four sides of the screen are painted with ice and snow sports as the pattern, showing the movement of athletes leaping in the air.
The 71-year-old Jin Guixiang is the third-generation inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Langfang City-Gu'an Jin's Palace Lantern Making Techniques.
Jin’s palace lanterns are mostly hexagonal and double-layered. The wood frame and decorations are finely carved with mahogany or old elm wood. Each lamp only has 96 tenon and tenon, 48 small sculptures, and more than 200 complete parts.
The pictures on each screen are mostly like dragons and phoenixes, good fortune and longevity, and good luck, etc., with various shapes and a wide range of uses, which are deeply loved by people.
(Song Mintao, Sun Hanjie, Cong Shuo produced by Xu Miaoqiao)
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]