Boy holding fish chandelier

[Boy holding fish chandelier]

Boy holding fish chandelier, clear, 21.5cm long, 11.7cm wide, 19.5cm high. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The pendant lamp is made of iron wire as the skeleton, and the colored yarn as the lamp surface. The two sides of the yarn are painted with children holding fish, and the two sides are painted with bats. It has the auspicious meaning of “more than one year” and “more than one year”. The picture is colorful and full of festive colors. This lantern was made according to the custom of appreciating lanterns around the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. In the old days, before and after the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, merchants traded in the market with lanterns, department stores, jewelry, Luo Qi, etc., which was called the light market. The people in the market and the family members of the internal ministers and palaces are reluctant to leave. Every night, many lanterns are hung in the shops and temples, with ancient stories and landscape flowers painted on them, implying good luck and peace. The palace should also make “children holding fish” gauze lanterns, paper small red lanterns and so on