![]() Mantle lanterns use a woven ceramic impregnated gas mantle to accept and re-radiate heat as visible light from a flame. WWII German Reich Railway (DRB) brass carbide burner trainman's lantern c1942 Another meaning comes from a 15th-century lantern with a jutting base (illustrated above), compared with the face of a person with mandibular prognathism, with extended chin, also known as Habsburg jaw or Habsburg lip as it was a hereditary feature of the House of Habsburg (see for example portraits of Charles V). According to the OED, it refers to "long thin jaws, giving a hollow appearance to the cheek" this use was recorded in 1361, referring to a lantern with concave horn sides before glass was in use. ![]() The derived term "lantern jaw" is used in two quite different still current ways, comparing faces with different types of lantern. Lanterns are also used to transport the Holy Fire from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Great Saturday during Holy Week. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, lanterns are used in religious processions and liturgical entrances, usually coming before the processional cross. But since these were short term solutions, the use of fire torches was more prevalent. Use of fireflies in transparent containers was also a widespread practice in ancient India. Lanterns are the central theme of the Seoul Lantern Festival, too. In other Chinese festivities, the kongming lanterns can be seen floating high into the sky during Chinese festivities. During the Lantern Festival, the displaying of many lanterns is still a common sight on the 15th day of the first lunar month throughout China. During the Ghost Festival, lotus shaped lanterns are set afloat in rivers and seas to symbolic guide the lost souls of forgotten ancestors to the afterlife. Lanterns are used in many Asian festivals. Raise the Red Lantern, a Chinese film, prominently features lanterns as a motif. The ancient Chinese sometimes captured fireflies in transparent or semi-transparent containers and used them as (short-term) lanterns. Chinese lanterns in the night sky of Lijiang, Yunnan
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