Chinese Paper Lanterns can make your winter brighter and take you around the world. This year lanterns are a big part of a Winter Wonderland Park in California.

This Veterans Day show your support for the war heroes that have risked their lives for the freedom of all Americans with beautiful Chinese Paper Lanterns. Many think that Veterans Day is only for the fallen, however, all Veterans are celebrated on this day. It’s a way to say “Thank You” for sacrificing and serving for the common good.

Throughout the country there are many celebrations going on, from parades to concerts and fireworks celebrating these brave man and women. Initially this celebration was called Armistice Day and the “war to end all wars “ however, since WWI also known as “The Great War” wasn’t the last war the name was changed to Veterans Day. The day is meant to focus on the Veterans and their heroism to fight for what is good and protect their country.

Celebrate Veterans on this day and greet them by saying “Thank You” for all of their heroism, strength, and sacrifice to ensure our comfort and freedom today. They are the bravest of Americans and need to be respected. On this day you can release beautiful Chinese Paper Lanterns with names of Veterans in your life, both the living and fallen. It’s a great way to mark this special day and say “Thank You” in a truly spectacular way.

Lanterns for the Asian Pacific Heritage Month

Fall is now upon us and Chinese Paper Lanterns can add a special touch to all your autumn activities.  There is a chill in the air and the nights are getting darker much earlier around this time of year, which makes for perfect days and nights to partake in all your favorite fall traditions.

If you are looking for fun events to fill your days, try looking in your local newspaper or community website for ideas. You might find a Fall Festival around the corner! Take a walk through an apple orchard and pick enough apples to take home and bake an apple pie or make hot apple cider with cinnamon. Don’t forget bobbing for apples makes for a great party game! Spend some time at the local pumpkin patch until you find one that will be sure to light up your front steps. Who can make the silliest or scariest face? Pumpkin carving contests always make for a good time and you can use the left over pumpkin seeds to bake a delicious snack. For a little excitement, see how long it will take you to make your way through a windy corn maze. Once you have completed the maze, treat yourself with a yummy caramel apple.

A bonfire is the perfect way to end the night with your family. Gather around and sip hot cocoa while roasting marshmallows and making s’mores. Imagine the sight of sitting around the fire while you send off Chinese Paper Lanterns into the sky.

Burgas, Bulgaria welcomed its first Chinese Lantern event. Organized by a

group that travels through all of the coastal cities in Bulgaria releasing these beautiful Lanterns, the event was scheduled to reach Burgas on the 6^th of September. This all, of course, if the winds cooperated and blew towards the sea and not the city. Many people gathered on the evening of September 6^th, however, unfortunately after a two hour wait it was determined that the winds will not change and the release was rescheduled for a later date. Many of the people that gathered left disappointed, while there were a couple that had their own lanterns and tried to release them. After 4-5 successful releases unfortunately one of the lanterns ended up getting tangled in a tree, and that was when onlookers realized why the event was cancelled. Following the safety instructions for releasing lanterns is essential.

Shortly after the cancellation of the event a new date was published on the events Facebook page. It was to be rescheduled for the 12^th of August. Again, many people gathered on the central beach in Burgas and after a slight delay they got the “GO” from the organizer who sold lanterns and announced when it was time to light and release them. Photographer Petia Emilova was able to capture this spectacular event. A Chinese Lantern is a great way to bring people together and make all their wishes as one.

Does your local park have beautiful gardens? This is the last time to head out and enjoy them, and don’t forget the Chinese Lanterns! All throughout summer flowers bloom and bring color and life to local parks, personal gardens, and sidewalks. However, you may have overlooked their beauty as you were well into your summer vacation and enjoying getting a nice tan. Communities spent a lot of time and money to ensure that the summer is colorful and joyous and it should be appreciated.

Now that your summer vacation is coming to an end its time to head out with a goal to see the beautiful flowers. Take the family out and enjoy a day at the park. Have a picnic, or simply just take a stroll. It will be nice to just spend time with the family without worrying about keeping a schedule. Clear your entire day to talk about your summer vacation experiences with the family and which of them you enjoyed most.

What did Poland and China have in common on the shortest night of the year – thousands of Chinese lanterns in the sky. If you happened to be in Poland on the night of June 21^st you would have witnessed a sky blazing with lanterns. This initiative was to commemorate the shortest night of the year. It is also called St. John’s Night or Midsummer Night.

The festival is about sun and the moon, the water and the fire, the fertility, harvest, joy and love. More than 1000 lanterns were released in the Polish sky in the beginning of the event, but later the number reached 8000. This beats the Polish record of sky release.

The organizers plant to beat the Guinness Record next year again in the shortest night of the year. Some people think that Valentine’s Day is the most romantic night, but the 21^st June outshined Valentine’s Day by all means. Thousands of couples released heart shaped lanterns and all were in awe of the magnificent sky. You can look up a video of the event online and see for yourself how indescribably beautiful the release was. It felt almost like a fairytale of some kind. The lanterns looked just like stars and they felt very real and close. People will not forget that night soon, they were sending their wishes and prayers in the sky and just dove in the moment.

Create your own magic night with some of our beautiful Chinese lanterns!

Chinese Lanterns Used in Schools

You can use a Chinese Lantern to commemorate Assumption Day on the 15^th of August. Assumption Day is celebrated by the Catholic Church. This is the day when the Blessed Virgin Mary was sent into Heaven and the eternal life. This is a very old feast for the Catholic Church and there is evidence that it was celebrated ever since the sixth century. It was first commemorated in the East and this day was known as the Dormition, and as you might suspect it means “falling asleep”.  When Jesus was crucified, he asked Apostle John to take care of his mother until she passes away.

This is why the first evidence of Mary’s passing comes from a printed document written from Apostle John himself. People believe that this happened in Jerusalem, where Apostle John was living at the time. The Virgin Mary is a symbol of purity and martyrdom. People pray to her and ask for her protection. She is supposed to look over families and children. If you celebrate Assumption Day, you can use a lantern. Lighting it when the night falls is very symbolic. The light that comes from the lantern and heads up and up in the sky is very much like the soul of the Virgin Mary that has headed to the Heavens gates.

You can use a Chinese Lantern for any occasion and remember that this device is very symbolic and lighting it you can send your prayers and wishes in the sky.

If you are looking for Chinese lanterns for sale, you should definitely look into what we have to offer. If you think that lanterns come only in one traditional shape, think again. Check our website and see for yourself the great diversity of shapes and colors we offer. Let’s begin with the fact that we offer lanterns for different occasions. Halloween, Christmas, your wedding, a party event, we have it all. Let’s start with Christmas. You can bring this amazing surprise to your kids on Christmas day – a lantern with Santa’s face on it. You can light it and we guarantee you that your kids will be overwhelmed. What about Halloween? We have orange-pumpkin like lanterns that will bring some extra flare and scare to this wonderful holiday. You will probably have the traditional lit pumpkin on your porch, but why not get creative – light a pumpkin lantern in the sky. You will add more mystique to the evening. If you want to stick to the traditions – get some white wish lanterns. They are perfect for virtually any occasion. How about bringing in some color to a party – we have it in stock – red, purple, yellow, orange, blue – how can you go wrong with that? We also have lanterns with the American flag printed on them!

Our Chinese lanterns for sale will leave you satisfied and you can use them anywhere on any occasion. Enjoy!

Once again Chinese Lanterns were mistaken for UFOs. This time it was around 4^th of July in Ohio. A man from Jackson Township was filming the fireworks and suddenly he noticed that there are some mysterious lights above all others. There were three lights floating above the fireworks in the shape of the L letter. The man had filmed everything on his cell phone and sent it to the local news channel. After the news channel released the video some people called and clarified that those lights were in fact lanterns, but there are many people who are skeptical. They think that since the lights were on different altitudes and moving slightly in different directions they might have been more that lanterns. Some people even think that it is a very strange coincidence, because the 2^nd of July is considered to be the World UFO day. On this day in 1947 a rancher form New Mexico discovered that a very strange object has crashed into his friends home. Upon examination he discovered that the crashed object was made of some very strange material and he decided to call the military. When they first examined the sight they reported that this was an unidentified flying object. But later on, everything was kind of covered up and no further information on the case was leaked.

UFO or not, the Chinese lanterns always create an illusion of something unearthly and divine – use them for any occasion and you will create a furor.

Have you ever seen a Chinese Lantern flower? It looks exactly like a miniature paper lantern. After all that’s where it name comes from. We have been wondering if the paper creations inspired its name or someone was inspired by these same flowers when making the first lantern. This flower has many names – Physalis alkekengi, Japanese lantern, Winter cherry, Bladder cherry and is a distant relative of the Cape Gooseberry flower. The flower originates from southern Europe and spreads across southern Asia up to Japan. Its flowers are white, but when they mature they turn into orange papery covering, that protect the fruit inside. This flower not only has the shape of a lantern, but also the most popular color of lanterns – red-orange. This makes it an ornamental plant as well. It is exquisite, interesting and brings a certain warmth into the room with its orange leaves. The fruits of this flower are used as food and as medicine. The dried fruit is given to patients with liver problems. It is also used as a sedative, antiseptic and diuretic. The lantern flower fruit has antibacterial qualities as well. In Japan, people use its seeds to guide the souls of people who have passed away in the Bon Festival. Around the 10-11 July there is an annual market for this flower in Japan.

Nature has given people inspiration for so many wonderful inventions. This flower has probably inspired the Chinese lantern. Call us and order one of those interesting nature inspired creations.