Pingyao ancient lantern art is a traditional handmade lamp craft. It is impossible to verify when it originated. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Pingyao's economy developed to its most glorious period, and the production of lantern art had unprecedented development. In order to reflect their prosperous business and publicize their strength and status, shops of all sizes in the city made some lanterns in various forms and hung them on the porch, forming a lively and prosperous scene. At that time, the lanterns were mainly festive red lanterns of varying sizes, and the texture was mainly bamboo and paper. The prosperous lamp market created a large number of folk artists, who improved and carried forward the production of ancient lanterns and passed them down to this day. Pingyao ancient lantern art is designed according to the traditional folk pattern conception. The processing technology can be summarized as material selection, cutting, tying, winding, mounting, painting and other processes. It integrates abstract composition, anthropomorphic sculpture, flat painting and calligraphy, composite decoration and light-driven mechanism, forming a comprehensive spatial art with strong national characteristics and local flavor. The main varieties include wooden palace lanterns, festive red lanterns, brocade lanterns, including: a bright future lantern, auspicious lantern, glorious gate lantern, paper-carved palace lantern, revolving lantern, abundant year after year lantern, harvest lantern, farmhouse lantern, double-star multi-color lantern, decorative lantern, etc. There are more than 50 kinds of lanterns. The shape, color, quality and color of lantern art are permeated with the Chinese nation's belief customs, cultural concepts and aesthetic tastes derived from the experience of fire. The accumulation of history and the infiltration of culture have made lanterns surpass the general practical or ornamental value of lamps and become a content of folk activities with both high artistic charm and great cultural value and social effect.