On that day, the adults would go to the mountains early in the morning and cut bamboo for the frames. Since it was hard to acquire large sheets of paper, "Sky lanterns used to be only about two and a half feet wide," says Hu. "A far cry from today, when even the smallest are four feet across."
他表示，過去糊天燈是一家大小在元宵節的大事，一早起來，大人就到山上去砍竹子來做支架，由於大張紙取得困難，「過去的天燈大概只有兩尺半，哪像今天的天燈，最小的都有四尺大小，」胡民樹表示。