{"id":240016,"date":"2026-03-03T16:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240016"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:54:19","slug":"the-lantern-capital-the-small-village-that-makes-nearly-all-of-chinas-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The lantern capital\u2019: The small village that makes nearly all of China\u2019s lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In China, red lanterns are one of the symbols of Lunar New Year celebrations. They can be seen everywhere — on streets, in temple grounds, everywhere, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, it is claimed that a remarkable 80% of the country’s lanterns are still made – by hand – in one small town in Hebei Province.<\/p>\n

Walking around the dusty streets of Tuntou, known as China’s “lantern capital,” you see evidence of lantern making everywhere you go.<\/p>\n

A view through an open door into a courtyard might reveal a small group of villagers sitting on stools and making lanterns while they chat, while down the main street, red lanterns are piled up one on top of the other.<\/p>\n

Nobody seems to know just how many hundreds of years ago the craft started in this part of northern China.<\/p>\n

It seems remarkable that, in an era of high-tech production lines, this town has been able to maintain a stranglehold on the lantern market, using production techniques from another era.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In China, red lanterns are one of the symbols of Lunar New Year celebrations. They can be seen everywhere — on streets, in temple grounds, everywhere, the BBC writes. Surprisingly, it is claimed that a remarkable 80% of the country’s lanterns are still made – by hand – in one small town in Hebei Province. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240017,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240016\/revisions\/240017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}