1, take out a red envelope, turn to the side without words, fold it in half, just have a little crease.
2. Fold the four corners inward and fold all the 12 red envelopes.
3. Stick the four red envelopes together with double-sided tape to form a cross, then stick the ground glyph, and then stick the Gui glyph.
4. Make them into a circle, stick them together and decorate them.
The origin of lanterns
Lantern is an ancient lamp. As early as the eighth century BC, in the Tang Dynasty, the reasons for using lanterns were recorded. There were lanterns in China after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns may have been invented after the Western Han Dynasty. The custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival originated in the early Han Dynasty, but it is also said that Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty set off lanterns in Shangyang Palace during the Lantern Festival to celebrate the peace of the country and the people, and then tied the lanterns. With the flashing lights, it symbolizes that "colorful dragons are auspicious, the people are rich and the country is strong", and the custom of playing lanterns is still widely circulated.
There are many theories about the origin of playing lanterns. A widely circulated saying is that the custom of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty advocated Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so he ordered them to light lamps to worship Buddha in palaces and temples that night. Later, this Buddhist etiquette festival gradually formed a grand folk festival, which experienced the development process from the palace to the folk and from the Central Plains to the whole country.