Cellophane lanterns - it's Mid-Autumn Festival time again :)

Yep, the autumnal equinox is coming up again, and with it the paraphernalia of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Crucially, sweet moon-cakes and lanterns. In fact, across Chinese parts of Asia, you will find cities with amazing lantern rigs going up. But the lanterns I love are the old-style, coloured cellophane animals, which I remember from years back in Malaysia. They're so pretty it seems a terrible shame to burn them (which is ultimately the idea at the Mid-Autumn festival!) (Or at least we did that in Malaysia!) These lights are a basic wire frame, with colourful, painted cellophane stretched across it. The wire has a coil to fit a candle inside.

For whatever reason (possibly my own lack of observation?) it's been a while since I saw these for sale in Singapore. Anyway I saw some today. And here they are :)

And if you want to find out more about the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can here, on an inappropriately large link which Blogger won't let me format (it works, though!): 

The Mid Autumn Festival

To look at one of Singapore's municipal lantern displays, click here: 

Mid autumn lanterns at night