We have been engaged in the creation of lantern festivals for many years and have produced countless lantern groups with shapes and sizes, including those that promote social values, those based on traditional myths and fables, and those featuring popular anime and game characters… All of these can be transformed into lantern exhibits. Today, we have specially summarized 10 popular animal-themed lantern exhibits.

These animal shaped lanterns can highlight cartoon atmosphere and are especially popular among children. Animals inherently possess a cute and lively charm. When transformed them into lantern decorations, children are eager to take pictures with them!

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#1. Chinese Dragon / Loong Lantern Exhibits
#2. Dinosaur Lantern Exhibits
#3. Horse Lantern Exhibits
#4. Bird Lantern Exhibits
#5. Elephant Lantern Exhibits
#6. Peacock Lantern Exhibits
#7. Tiger Lantern Exhibits
#8. Pig Lantern Exhibits
#9. Fish Lantern Exhibits
#10. Rabbit Lantern Exhibits

1. Chinese Dragon / Loong Lantern Exhibits

The Loong / Dragon is undoubtedly the totem of our Chinese people. Every year during the lantern festivals, showcase featuring the Dragon / Loong Lantern Decoration! The types include “Ying Loong”, “Shen Loong”, “Tian Loong”, “Four Sea Loong Kings”, “Loong Overlord”, etc. The nine sons of Loong (Pavus, Chao Feng, Jie Zi, Bi Xi, Shu Tu, Chui Wen, Pu Lou, San Nan, Qiu Niu) were also frequently manufactured.

With the revival and resurgence of the China-Tradition Trend, characters from various forms of animation, cartoons, and games, including dragons, have also become popular subjects for production. Therefore, mythical creatures like the Loong or Dragon are definitely one of the most popular decorations for lantern festivals.

2. Dinosaur Lantern Exhibits

The Dinosaur, such mysterious and massive prehistoric creature, is definitely not to be missed. The Dinosaur-Shaped Lanterns are also mysterious to children. Once see the large dinosaur-shaped lanterns, kids will rush to take pictures with them. Hot large dinosaur lantern decorations such as “Tyrannosaurus Rex”, “Triceratops”, “Brachiosaurus” and “Stegosaurus” are the most popular.

Products like the dinosaur lantern exhibits are originated from the “International Dinosaur Lantern Festival in Zigong“! Because children enjoy watching them, the lantern exhibits are also frequently customized by the customers for lantern festivals.

3. Horse Lantern Exhibits

In Chinese people’s thoughts, Horse symbolizes vigor and the ability to soar through the sky for thousands of miles. Especially “the thousand-mile horse“, which is an extremely deep-rooted good symbol in the hearts of the Chinese people. Therefore, the horse lantern exhibits are also a particularly popular type of custom order. Stories like “Bole Recognizes the Horse of His Dreams” from ancient times, or decorative lanterns like “The Horse Treading on a Flying Swan” are mostly customized products.

4. Bird Lantern Exhibits

Bird-shaped lanterns are an indispensable part of traditional Chinese festivals. People often use bird-shaped lanterns to symbolize “auspiciousness and good fortune” or “prosperity and success”. In particular, the “Phoenix“, which is regarded as the ancestor of all birds, and the “Magpie“, which symbolizes good luck, are the two types of bird-shaped lantern sets that are custom-made the most frequently.

The bird-shaped lanterns at the exhibition are usually presented to the audience in the form of a group of birds. They might be decorated on a large flower fan, or on a large group of colorful lanterns in the shape of flowers or trees, looking very festive.

5. Elephant Lantern Exhibits

The Spring Festival in China has the significance of “a fresh start for all things“! If this idiom is taken as the main theme, a “colorful elephant lantern group” will be created that the common people like to watch. A smaller elephant lantern exhibit can be a single lantern with a size consistent with a modern elephant. And the large-scale elephant lantern exhibits can feature a giant elephant carrying around a dozen baby elephants, which is more closely aligned with the figurative meaning of “a fresh start for all things”.

6. Peacock Lantern Exhibits

The reason why I singled out the peacock from the bird lantern set is that its production frequency is higher than that of any other bird species. Because the imagery of “peacocks spreading their tails” is so wonderful, such motifs can be frequently seen in various holiday lantern exhibitions, where large-scale lantern decorations in the shape of peacocks are displayed.

As a lanterns manufacturer, we also often create products such as “Imperial Fan Peacock”, “Peacock Opening Its Tail”, and “Peacock Dancing”. These are then displayed by customers at their lantern exhibitions, and they are also very popular among the general public.

7. Tiger Lantern Exhibits

Animals like tigers are endowed with symbolic meanings of being “strong and healthy” and “full of vitality“. Therefore, in some areas of northern China, customers also particularly like to transform various images of “tigers” into large lantern exhibits. These large-sized tigers are particularly favored by the elderly, as they symbolize good health.

8. Pig Lantern Exhibits

A chubby and large-eared PIG is also frequently seen at the lantern festival, as Pig symbolizes many children and descendants as well as continuous abundance of blessings. The common people were overjoyed to see the fat pigs. It seemed as if they believed that seeing such pigs would bring them good fortune in the coming year. All kinds of pig-shaped decorations (lying down, sleeping, standing, feeding piglets, etc.) can be transformed into popular lantern decorations that are loved by the common people.

9. Fish Lantern Exhibits

“Abundance every year” is a popular good omen that Chinese people like during the Spring Festival. Therefore, fish-shaped lanterns at lantern festivals represent the good omen. Especially, the carp-shaped lanterns account for over 90% of the fish-shaped lanterns, not only symbolizing “abundance every year”, but also carrying the good omen of “carp leaping over the dragon gate”.

10. Rabbit Lantern Exhibits

The lively and cute “rabbit-shaped lanterns” are also frequently seen in various lantern festivals. Especially the cartoon-style rabbit lanterns are popular among children. Perhaps it’s because we were exposed to the stories of white rabbit from the young age that the adorable “rabbits” has been deeply imprinted in our childhood memories. Therefore, the cartoon lanterns featuring white rabbits have become a popular sight for people of all ages.

Conclusion

These are the 10 popular animal-shaped lanterns that we have come up with based on our 15 years of production experience. Except for these lanterns, be available to custom-made other animal theme exhibits according to the requirements of clients. Jusat tell us waht do you want! We make it happen.

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