The crisis condition

                           By Lifang

    Huangyuan Lamp Row enjoys more than 200 years history. At first, the shop owner hang it to attract the customer by put the candle inside the signboard. With its development, it finally become the various-shaped lamp row with foundation, designs, crossing the street, shown every lantern festival. It once stop for the inner warfare the early old China and resume after several years. It got almost ruined unitl 1958 political campaign by destroying all the frame and lose all the design. All the lamp row invested by the local business and god fire. Though it resume from 1992 to 1993, the tradition has lost. It can only be organized by the official. Currently, the old generation artists are all passed away, except Yang zenggui. Generally, the inheritor has been basically lost. So it is a must to take the effective measurement to protect in high priority.                    (60-aged carpenter craftsman)