Crafts about the Spring Festival

Red paper lanterns, paper firecrackers, beautiful paper flowers, Chinese knots, paper cuts, Spring Festival couplets written by myself, etc.

Handmade works about the New Year include red paper lanterns, paper firecrackers, beautiful paper flowers, Chinese knots, paper cuts, Spring Festival couplets written by myself and so on. These handmade works all contain some festive elements unique to the New Year custom, which makes the festive atmosphere more intense. The most common are paper-cut window grilles and couplets.

Paper-cutting and Spring Festival couplets belong to the custom of Chinese New Year, which means Spring Festival couplets, door gods, horizontal criticism, New Year pictures and blessings. These red holiday elements posted during the New Year are all called Year Red. Sticking New Year's Red is a traditional custom in the New Year. Sticking it on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month before the Spring Festival can increase the festive atmosphere, and the streets are full of joy.

Spring Festival couplets are what people used to say in ancient times. They are the most primitive Spring Festival couplets. Later, people will post "Yichun" when they are in beginning of spring, that is, Spring Festival couplets, and then slowly develop Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are neat, concise and dual, and they also place people's good wishes and good wishes for New Year's life.

In addition to Spring Festival couplets, there are window grilles, the word "Fu" and New Year pictures, all of which are red in the New Year and can also add a festive atmosphere to the New Year. On doors, walls and furniture, New Year's Red, large and small, will be pasted to make the New Year more colorful.

What are the unique customs of Chinese New Year in the north?

The unique customs of Chinese New Year in the north include offering sacrifices, pasting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping away the old, pasting New Year pictures, pasting stickers, setting off firecrackers, celebrating the New Year, dancing yangko, offering sacrifices to ancestors, sending kitchen gods and so on. During the Spring Festival, people will prepare tributes to pay homage to their deceased relatives.