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Feng and his wife Duan Jinju give a final touch to the lanterns. WEI SHIXIN/FOR CHINA DAILY Dedicated craftsman makes palace lanterns, preserving tradition, report Wang Qian and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan. In Feng Huailin's studio in Wangshouzhuang village, Yuncheng, Shanxi province, the 62-year-old lantern maker still works with traditional techniques, dating back to the Qing Dynasty, inherited through his family. Consisting of nearly 300 wood components, a set of palace lanterns usually takes Feng and his wife Duan Jinju at least a month to make. "My childhood memories are connected to lanterns as both my father and grandfather made them," Feng says, adding that it has been a local tradition to gift a set of palace lanterns from grandparents to their newborn grandchildren as blessings for a bright future.
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