高中英語(yǔ)作文：Chinese lantern
Chinese lantern has originated from the Western Han Dynasty. Around the yearly Lantern Festival, people all hang red lanterns up, which are symbols of reunion, to create a festive atmosphere. Lanterns later become a joyous symbol for Chinese. Chinese lantern synthesizes techniques of painting art, paper cutting, paper bundling and prickseaming. Palace lantern and gauze lantern are the most famous among the lanterns made in ancient China.
Nowadays, lanterns still paly an important role in home decoration, but the material of some lanterns have changed from paper and bamboo to cloth, plastics and iron wire, and their shape and colour have been quite different from traditional ones.
中國(guó)的燈籠起源于西漢時(shí)期。在每年的元宵節(jié)前后，人們都會(huì)掛起象征團(tuán)圓的紅燈籠，來(lái)營(yíng)造一種喜慶的氣氛，后來(lái)，燈籠就成了中國(guó)人喜慶的象征。中國(guó)的燈籠綜合了繪畫(huà)藝術(shù)、剪紙、紙?jiān)�、刺縫等工藝。在中國(guó)古代制作的燈籠中，以宮燈和紗燈最為。
如今，燈籠在居家裝飾上仍扮演者重要的角色，但是有些燈籠的材料由原來(lái)的紙、竹子變成了布、塑料、鐵線，而且燈籠的形狀和顏色與傳統(tǒng)也大不相同。