Traditional lanterns are special product from Hoi An. Once traveling there, you can’t miss such a beautiful masterpiece of this accent town
Visitors come to Hoi An always admire the plenty of lanterns with all colors, sizes, designs. All are lightened, giving the ancient town of Hoi An an unusual beauty: brilliant, shimmering, magical, lively and romantic ...
"Hoi An full-moon night" is a unique idea of local residents to promote traditional values in a modern life. Until now, no one knows exactly when Hoi An lanterns appeared. From the old people’s stories, the ancestor named Xa Duong, a unicorn head, festival lanterns makers.
At that time, only the upper class owned lantern to hang in the house. Through several generations, lanterns were used on every house in the ancient town of Hoi An to decorate their homes but still remained dazzling beauty, elegance.
Lanterns are made mainly from bamboo and silk. Hoi An people prefer silk to wrap the lights. This silk makes things more magical light alive. “Lanterns” mean lightening, so it must always have burning light. Hoi An lanterns are unique products of their own ancient city, both to light up and decorate. On the other hand, the lantern also has some specific feng shui meaning
Every shape and color of lanterns carries a different meaning. Round shape symbolizes harmony, balance. This is the typical pattern of Hoi An lanterns. According to folk thought, round lanterns hanging in the house icon will bring a lot of warmth, peace and good luck.
When night falls, tourists also enjoy cross colors shimmering, lyrical lanterns hung tightly to the ancient city streets. It is nostalgic about the past, very real but also very vague. It seems that the atmosphere of a busy commercial port in the past is currently existing with the light of the lantern and the shadow of the old houses poetic.
Foreign tourists often stop to visit lantern shops quite long and buy at least one souvenir or leave order forms. Hoi An lanterns attract visitor’s love because of its skill in design and durability
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