The Concept of Walking Horse Lamp

Walking horse lamp is called Pan Yi lamp (Qin Han Dynasty), Xianyin candle and Zhuanlu lamp (Tang Dynasty), horse riding lamp (Song Dynasty), Han nationality characteristic handicraft [1], which is also one of traditional holiday toys, which belongs to lantern. It is common in the festival of the new year’s Eve, Lantern Festival, Mid Autumn Festival and so on.

The candle is lit in the lamp, and the heat generated by the candle causes air flow, which makes the axle rotate. There are paper cuts on the axle. The candle light projects the shadow of paper-cut on the screen, and the image will move.

Because most of the lights are painted on each side of the ancient martial general riding pictures, and the lights turn like several people chasing each other, so they are named riding lamps.

As a result of the horse lamp as if several people are chasing each other, it is also used to describe things that travel and go. In Japanese traditional literature, walking horse lamp is the seasonal language in summer.

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