Different Production Method of Dragon Lantern
5000 years of Chinese civilization, rich Yan Huang culture, in this vast ancient China also gave birth to a profound Chinese dragon culture, every son and daughter of the Chinese are descendants of the dragon. In ancient buildings, ancient gardens, ancient tombs community have the figure of Zhonghua dragon. Lanterns with dragons can be seen everywhere in Zigong Lantern Fair. Since the industrious and intelligent Zigong people made the lantern culture famous at home and abroad, there are many ways to make Chinese dragon Lantern lanterns. Today we will discuss the Chinese dragon lantern lantern several different production process.
Simply put, no matter how the Chinese dragon lantern lantern changes, can not live without the most basic several processes: artists lofting, fitter modeling, electric cloth lights, pasting workers paste cloth, artists coloring treatment of these key process steps. However, with the development of the production level of Zigong lanterns and the technology of The Times, there have been some changes in the subtle points that are difficult to be found by ordinary people. This paper mainly introduces the manifestation of dragon body and dragon scale.
The first way: the traditional economic performance of the dragon
This kind of Chinese dragon production process was very popular before 2015, and it was often made in this way in most lantern fairs except Zigong. The dragon tail of the dragon head is a conventional process, namely, the main skeleton of steel structure, the three-dimensional modeling of silk frame, the color pasting of silk cloth, the internal light transmission of led, and the art processing. The difference is the production process of the dragon body. Because the production time of lanterns is short and the labor cost is high, the dragon body is displayed by plane modeling, colored cloth pasting, laser paper cutting samples and glue paste, as shown in the following figure. This kind of production process time is short, the appearance of bright color, the disadvantage is that the dragon scale after about a month of sun and rain, because each piece of dragon scale is independent paste, easy to be blown off by the wind, or in the sun exposure dragon scale faded phenomenon.
The second way: modern rapid forming dragon body expression technique
There are two kinds of dragon scales made by this technique of dragon body expression. One is the spray cloth printed with high precision color ink, and the other is the finished dragon scale cloth. The Zhonghua dragon produced by this process has high speed, bright color and obvious shortcomings. The finished dragon scales are thick and strong to be eaten up. More led lights are needed to achieve proper brightness. High precision ink printing dragon scale cloth will not have this problem, but the price is slightly higher.
The third way: the use of three-dimensional welding dragon scale
Under the condition that the production time and cost budget are allowed, this three-dimensional dragon scale production method is the classic technology of Hualong Zigong Lantern Fair, which can best reflect the superb and exquisite technology characteristics of Zigong colored lanterns. The welding of the three-dimensional dragon scale is laborious, not only the labor cost is almost twice as much as that of the welding, but also the labor cost will be increased nearly twice as much in the papering process.
