While the small, round fruits of this bladder cherry are edible when fully ripe, unripe fruits as well as the other parts of the plant are considered highly toxic if ingested. Like ground cherry and tomatillo, Chinese lantern grows its fruits enclosed within papery calyxes or husks. It was formerly known as Physalis alkekengi but has been reclassified – we’ll get to that story in a bit – and it bears a strong family resemblance to its relatives in the Physalis genus, ground cherry and tomatillo.Ī member of the nightshade or Solanaceae family, Chinese lantern is also related to petunias, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and potatoes. Cultivation and HistoryĪlkekengi officinarum, or as it is commonly known, “Chinese lantern,” is an herbaceous perennial that is hardy in USDA Zones 3-9. The subject of this article, on the other hand, is a small, deciduous herbaceous plant known for its papery, red-orange husks. aurantiaca is a perennial covered with yellow flowers that is more often called “Chinese lantern lily.” abutilon is an understory tree that belongs to the mallow family, and S. The city has a Chinese Quarter, an area of Chinese influence with Chinese-owned, businesses and organisations with buildings in Hurst Street and Ladywell Walk featuring Chinese architecture.Before we get started, a bit of clarification is in order.ĭon’t confuse this “Chinese lantern” with two other plants that go by the same common name, Abutilon pictum and Sandersonia aurantiaca.Ī. Yujie Li, Visual Communication MA, Birmingham City Universityīirmingham is home to one of the UK’s largest Chinese communities. It is also the first time I have made Chinese lanterns with limited materials in another country! I feel very honoured to have such an opportunity to demonstrate my own culture, and I hope this video will help to increase people's interest in traditional Chinese culture. Although I was "reunited" with my family via a WeChat online call, other friends who had stayed behind in the UK and I decided to make this unusual New Year's Day more meaningful by cooking a meal together. This was my first Chinese New Year in the UK, and it was unlike any other. Put a string of coloured lights in the middle of the lantern so that the lantern can be lit at night.
Choose any pattern you like, paste the material into the appropriate size in the form of paper-cut, and paste it on the tracing paper (remember to paste it from the inside of the lantern).
After that, assemble the materials prepared in the first two steps, and the prototype of a lantern will appear, but we still need to add a little decoration to it.Then cut your favourite Chinese pattern in the middle of each side and cover it with tracing paper of the same size. Since the lantern has eight sides, each side should be 7×9cm and 13×8cm in size. Following Yujie’s drawings in the video, cut out strips of 7×72cm (top) and 13×64cm (middle) respectively.Cut out the palace lantern templates according to the drawings given in the video, and paste them on each of the adjacent pages, so that you have a cylinder that unrolls out from the centre.Scissors or graphic design cutting knife.Yujie Li’s DIY Chinese paper ‘palace lantern’ video is available to watch on the Birmingham City University YouTube channel here and is accompanied by a written guide: Lion and dragon dances, and riddle games, are popular activities during the Lantern Festival, which is observed in China and by the Chinese diaspora across the world. The palace lanterns are regarded as one of the traditional handicrafts of the Han nationality, featuring strong local characteristics in the design. The Lantern Festival is a Chinese event marking the 15 th day of the first lunar month, first recorded as part of the Sui and Tang dynasties, that now sees children and families carrying ‘palace lanterns’ out in the streets, and solving riddles illustrated on the lanterns. As a “master of paper”, Yujie produced and shared a video to raise awareness of the tradition of making paper lanterns. Friday 26 February marks the arrival of the Lantern Festival in Chinese culture. Yujie Li, an international student from China, is pursuing an MA degree in Visual Communication at Birmingham City University.
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