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CHINESE PAPER LANTERNS FOR LUCK AND PROSPERITY

author — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:02:27 +0000

Chinese Paper Lanterns have been in use in the West for years as lighting fixtures, restaurant signs and for street events. But airborne wish lanterns are relatively new outside of Asia, and they are becoming increasingly popular worldwide for occasions of all kinds. Originating from both China and Thailand, these lanterns are nevertheless best known as “Chinese” lanterns. Until Sui Dynasty in the 16th Century Emperor Yangdi would entertain visiting dignitaries with gala performances featuring colorful lantern displays. The emperor even lifted a curfew to allow his people to enjoy the festive lanterns throughout the day and night. The longest lantern festival celebration took place in the early 15th century, when festivities lasted 10 days.

Today’s festivities may not last as long, but marking your event in this magical, ancient way will certainly make it all the more special. You can use our lanterns for a wedding, a birthday, a graduation, or a holiday, or indeed any occasion you want to make a mark on. And what might you wish for? Many revelers, from ancient times until now enjoy writing riddles or wishes to be taken skyward. A number of popular ones include: “be happy and carry laughter all the time”, “everything will be lucky and go smoothly” and even more specific messages like “pass an exam and get enrolled in college”.

So, instead of wishing on a star, you can now write out your wishes and send them aloft on our beautiful, colorful Chinese Paper Lanterns.

Chinese Paper Lanterns in Winter Wonderland

author — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:07:41 +0000

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.

If you want to travel around the world, you don’t really need 80 days or even an air plane ticket. All you have to do is visit the Winter Wonderland of Great America Park in Santa Clara, CA. This year the park has decided to arrange an unusual scene. There are over forty structures within the park that are illuminated and made of recycled material. You can find structures that are 100 feet long and taller than 50 feet and they are made of metal flatware, bottle caps, porcelain dishes, used compact discs, bottles and beverage cans. There are really gigantic lanterns in the park that depict Taj Mahal, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Eiffel Tower and many more iconic landmarks that people want to visit. There are many craft shops in the park and people can take part in carnival games, participate in a dinosaur maze and hop on a holiday train. There are many performances that depict traditional dances from Mexico, Scotland, Greek and many other nationalities. The Winter Wonderland is organized by an International Cultural Exchange Group. Release Chinese Paper Lanterns to travel the world along with them.

Celebrate Veterans Day with Chinese Paper Lanterns

author — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:50:06 +0000

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.

Autumn Activities with Chinese Wish Lanterns

author — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:14:07 +0000

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.

Polish-Chinese Sky

author — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:25:27 +0000

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!

UFO or Chinese Lanterns

author — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:12:55 +0000

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.

Fit-All Party Supplies

author — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:14:23 +0000

If you are one of those people who are looking for a good bargain – we have great Chinese Lanterns for sale for you. Actually we think that shopping during sales is a very smart thing to do. Especially if you want to stock up on some goods where you can really save money. We are talking party favors, decorations, kitchen supplies and so on. Whenever you find a great deal on something you immediately start calculating how much you will save, how long those supplies will last you, where and when you can use them. The thing about lanterns is that they are not only an amazing idea for a party, but they are actually good for any king of party. You can light them when you are having a BBQ with friends, or a birthday party. They are great for weddings and even for your office party. If you want to organize a sophisticated business cocktail or a cocktail after an opera performance for example – they will be perfect too. This means you can never have one too many lanterns, because they will suit any situation. Even if you are not throwing the party, you can bring them as a present – we guarantee you that everyone will be thrilled. Now is the time to stock up on those amazing fill-all party supplies.

Check out our website and see all the Chinese Lanterns for sale that we have.

Lanterns at a Cancer Survivor’s Event

author — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:59:51 +0000

There are many events organized these days in support of the cancer survivors and a Chinese Lantern release could be seen at some of them. Every year on June 10^th at the Sparta High School there is a Relay for Life event organized. This is the fifth time such an event is hosted there. This time there was an interesting activity incorporated in the schedule. There usually is a luminary ceremony at the event, but this time a lanterns sendoff was to take place as well. People who wanted to send off lanterns could purchase them at the event. They wrote the names of loved ones who have lost the battle with cancer. The custom of sending off lanterns for lost loved one is beautiful and very symbolic. Another new event at this year’s Relay is the recognition of the caregivers. After all taking care of someone who has cancer is a very serious and hard thing to do. The recognition was in the form of their own lap around the running track. The survivors lap was at 7pm and it included a big chain. Each link of that giant chain represented one year of surviving cancer. There were 41 teams signed up for this lap this year, which is more than ever before. The goal of the event was to raise around $120 000.

If you have a friend or a loved one who you have lost or has survived cancer, light up a Chinese Lantern for them and say a prayer for them.

Lanterns Can Show You the Power of a Smile

author — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:10:18 +0000

June is coming, and for some people it will be a memorable day – they will release Chinese Lanterns in the sky and will feel the

Smile Power Day

power of the smile. This day is the Smile Power Day. People have tried to come up with all kinds of unique holidays, using them as a reason to celebrate and this day is a very special one. As people go with their routine, working, running house chores, they sometimes forget to stop and take a breather, have a drink with a friend, see a comedy, and simply share a few laughs. But a smile is a magical thing. As the stress provokes health problems – just fight it with smiles and laughs. Smiling can make your world the happiest place to be. It can cure you from a bad mood, it can make you forget your problems for a while, and it brings you close to people. You may not know this, but smiling can actually add years to your life. The dopamine released in your brain when you smile is a powerful natural happiness drug. When you smile at someone, you make them happy as well. Smiling improves and creates relationships. In the business world a sincere smile goes a long way and really improves the customer service. And do not forget that it easier to smile that to frown, because you use less muscles when you do that.

Release a few Chinese Lanterns with your friends – you will feel the power of the smile the moment you see those beautiful lights in the sky.

Chinese Lanterns and the First Hot Air Balloons

author — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:37:41 +0000

Chinese Lanterns and hot air balloons have a lot in common. People have been intrigued by the mystery of flying since the dawn of day. We all

Chinese Lanterns and Hot Air Balloons

know how people have tried to build wings that are to be attached to the human hands in attempts to fly. These failed. But people never stopped to wonder how they could soar in the sky like the birds. In 1782, a Frenchman Joseph Montgolfier noticed that when he filled a silk bag with air that was hot it lifted off the ground. This happened, because the hot air is usually not as dense as the air with normal temperature. He realized that if he filled a bag with air which temperature was higher than the temperature of the surrounding air, this could be used to lift objects off the ground. One year later Joseph and his brother managed to fly over the Bois de Bologne in Paris for 25 minutes and they flew for five miles. On the June 4 the following year of 1784, the first woman to ever fly a hot air balloon went over Lyon, France. These are really milestones for the human kind and it shows us how the curiosity of man can lead to great inventions. The lanterns are very much the same mechanism like the hot air balloon. If you want to experience that for yourself and get closer to a great intention made by humans, you can order some Chinese Lanterns from us and fly them yourself.