Puning Travel | Experience the taste of the old days in Xilong Village

🔸It is only when you come to Puning in Jieyang that you realize there is a lantern village hidden here. In this place, every household makes a living by crafting bamboo strip lanterns. It is said that this craft started in the Ming Dynasty and has been passed down for hundreds of years. 🏮The lanterns come in a variety of shapes, including square lanterns, lotus seedpod lanterns, pearl lanterns, concave belly lanterns, gourd lanterns, and vase shapes, and the characters on the lanterns are customized, which can be blessings or the surname of the family. 👋Because they are made entirely by hand and involve many steps (including weaving, pasting paper, coloring, and applying tung oil), they take a long time to make, so the price of Xilong lanterns is also quite high, ranging from tens to hundreds of yuan each. 🏮Xilong lanterns (lantern colors) are famous far and wide and have been selected for the 'Eighth Batch of Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project Directory'. ⚠️Key point: Every year on the evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xilong Village holds a bamboo strip lantern lifting ceremony. If you want to experience the lively taste of the New Year, come here and take a look.