The Zigong Lantern Festival is famous for its magnificent, grand scale, ingenious conception, and exquisite craftsmanship. It is praised as "the world's first"A lamp". The Zigong Lantern Festival's innovation in the conception and production process is called "high-grade" art by Chinese and foreign experts. There is a kind of Zigong The traditional skills of the Lantern Festival can be called a must, that is-porcelain lamps.
Zigong City belongs to the hilly area. In the past, most merchants carried burdens to sell goods in the streets of Zigong. Merchants selling bowls, spoons, saucers, plates and other porcelain, they put these ordinary porcelains into various shapes such as palace lanterns, and then choose to sell them. In doing so, it will look good and attract customers; second, it will be convenient for walking and not easy to damage the porcelain. Over time, the use of porcelain to tie colored lights has become a special skill for Zigong porcelain merchants.
The first Zigong Lantern Festival was held in 1964. An old employee of the Japanese company was good at bundling porcelain. The company leaders chose to use porcelain to bundle the lamps, so he was specially invited to bundle the porcelain lamps for the Lantern Festival. After elaborate design and production by the old man, I chose a flower-shaped bowl and bundled it into porcelain lamps according to the pattern. The small light bulb was installed in the bowl. After the power was turned on, the entire pattern flashed, which was very beautiful and was well received by the audience. After the exhibition, these porcelains can be returned to the company and sold as usual, which is also very economical. Since then, the porcelain lamp has been a blockbuster, and the Lantern Festival Office has used it as a reserved craft. Generally, small porcelain bowls, porcelain wine glasses, porcelain spoons, and porcelain plates are used for making porcelain lanterns. Because the surface of porcelain is very smooth and very particular about fixing, wax wire is used to prevent rain and non-slip. Will not slip.
For round porcelain such as porcelain plates, small porcelain bowls, porcelain wine glasses, etc., fixed in the shape of "meter", it can effectively prevent the porcelain from falling off. Use a knot when knotting, usually multiple porcelains are fixed together. The weight tightens the slipknot.
