When the fish-shaped lantern lights up, the whole alley falls silent【海曲姑娘 Haiqu Girl】 #handmade

Chinese Essence
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00:00:40 Visiting the inheritor of the fish-shaped lantern tradition
00:00:50 Learning how to make fish-shaped lanterns
00:07:17 fish-shaped lantern works
Bamboo strips are bent into a fish-shaped frame, covered with thin paper, seams sealed with rice paste that dries translucent. A small candle placed inside makes the whole form rise from the dark, casting rippling scales on the wall. As a child walks down the stone path, the light dances at their feet—like a real fish swimming into the night.
Alright got it
Got it
Start building a pile up
there —okay—shut up don’t make a long
pile first make a medium-sized
one then another
then a long pile
Fill again past—
just pile it short
Shut up you can't
push it in from outside
into the inside—let me
try—yes yes it works
Stick closely
The oil is hot
and intense I just used two fingers
A tightly compressed surface
The surface is firmly pressed
Plug this
in—so thick
Holding it inserted
Do it like this — insert it here like this
— it should go right here
Stick this in
there then you'
ve got two
yellow bottoms right
They match perfectly—slip them
both into a net cover them up
A cover was
completed then coated
and then given another layer
Apply a layer
then bind a book
forming such a layer
then tie it again
Pressing down o
That's how it is
Everyone can
wipe this
Can't reach it
Scritch scritch scritc
