Lu network Shandong commercial newspaper reporter Zhou Li photographer
the palace lantern has a history of thousands of years in China, has become a symbol of Chinese traditional culture. Since 1971, he studied the art of mahogany carving design, and the 64 year old Zhang Minquan made the mahogany lantern for 47 years.
Zhang Minquan's light bulb,
table, represents the palace lights and the changes of the times
the decoration of the outer body of the lamp frame is preliminarily completed by
it is understood that it takes more than 4 months to make a pair of mahogany palace lanterns, and the material needs to be nearly 300 blocks of red wood and about 130 procedures. Today, Zhang Minquan has been selected as the fifth generation inheritor of Ji'nan's intangible cultural heritage handmade mahogany carving. In the future, he hopes that more people will learn to make palace lanterns and carry forward traditional culture better.