Guessing lantern riddles, also called playing lantern riddles, is a literary game that can inspire wisdom and is humorous and interesting. Lets see how to make lantern, a small lanternOrigami method, manual origami tutorial for paper lanterns.
◆ Materials needed to make origami lanterns:
Rectangular paper with an aspect ratio of 2:1.
◆ Folding method
1. First fold the paper in half vertically and horizontally, and make creases to facilitate subsequent origami movements.
2. With the design side of the lantern inside, fold the upper and lower short sides toward the midline.
Legend: The riddle turned into a lantern riddle, and there is an interesting story. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a rich man who was known as the Smiling Tiger. When he sees decently dressed people, he tries his best to fawn over them; when he sees poor people in rough clothes, he blows his beard and glares. There was a young man named Mr. Wang who was kicked out of the door when he went to borrow food because his clothes were in tatters. After Mr. Wang returned, he became more and more angry. On the night of the Lantern Festival, I put up a big lantern and came to the door of Smiling Tigers house. There is a poem inscribed on this large lantern. The Smiling Tiger stepped forward to take a look and saw that it read:
The head is pointed and the body is as thin as silver.
Not even half a cent;
The eyes grow to the buttocks,
Only recognize the clothes but not the person.
After watching the Smiling Tiger, he was so angry that he was furious and shouted: "Good boy, how dare you come to scold the master." He ordered his servants to grab the lanterns. Young Master Wang hurriedly picked up the lanterns and said with a smile: "Hey, master, please don't do it. Suspicion, these four lines of my poem are a riddle, and the answer is 'needle', think about it. How could this 'needle' be meant for you? Could it be that 'needle' said it to you, otherwise how would you know what it said? Is that you?" The smiling tiger thought about it, but it was not the case, so he could only stare in anger and walked away in despair, while everyone around him laughed happily.
After the news spread, it spread further and further. The next Lantern Festival, people followed suit and wrote riddles on lanterns for people to guess and shoot for fun. Thats why its called "lantern riddles". Since then, it has become a tradition, and guessing lantern riddles and lighting tiger lanterns have become important activities during the Lantern Festival.
3. Turn the red side of the paper up, and then fold the bottom edge up to the middle line.
4. Fold the top edge down to the middle line.
5. Fold the folded edge downwards and the folded edge upwards.
6. Turned over.
7. Turn back again.
8. Fold the lower right corner upward to the center.
9. The same goes for the lower left corner.
10. Open as shown.
11. Pull down and flatten.
12. Extend the left side in the same way, and pull it down to flatten it.
13. As shown in the picture after completion.
14. Rotate 180 degrees and fold in the same way.
15. Fold both the left and right corners inward to make a small corner.
16. Turn over and the paper lantern is folded.
17. You can fold a few more and connect them.
18. Let’s take a look at how to fold paper lanterns with tassels. Fold the bottom edge upward.
19. Turn the inner triangle upward and flatten it.
20. Restore it.
21. Fold the bottom edge upward a little and use tape to secure it.
22. Rotate it 180 degrees, turn the triangle inside up, and glue it in place.
23. Use scissors to cut out thin strips from the lower part as tassels.
24. Turn over and the paper lantern with tassels is ready.
25. You can also write auspicious words on yellow paper, cut out circles and stick them on the lantern~
Finally, the lantern riddle origami of the safe and auspicious lantern is ready.
