Year of the Tiger Main Lantern・Traditional Style: Paper-cut Patterns and Majestic Seated Pose

Design the main lantern of a Taiwanese Lantern Festival for the Year of the Tiger, about 13 metres tall, in the traditional craft manner. Build a seated tiger in a dignified guardian posture on a hand-bent bamboo frame skinned in hand-painted silk. Render the stripes not as realistic markings but as bold traditional paper-cut motifs — swirling cloud and flame shapes in black and gold laid over a vermilion ground — so the surface reads as folk art rather than natural pattern. Paint the face in the manner of a temple guardian with strong brows and a fierce but stylised expression. Light entirely from within so the silk glows and the bamboo ribs are visible as fine lines beneath the painted pattern. Set it on a carved stone platform with lion-dog style plinths at the corners. Flank it with tall poles of red palace lanterns and hanging calligraphic banners. Show a warm night scene with dense crowds and lantern strings overhead. Photorealistic, warm, ornate and traditional, eye-level view.