Besides eating jiaozi, how can we spend the Spring Festival?

Accompanied by firecrackers, the family is round and happy. As the biggest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, how did you spend your Spring Festival? Besides eating jiaozi on holidays, how can we make the New Year interesting and memorable?

Clever hand-cut window grilles make the atmosphere of the New Year flow naturally at home.

Before the festival, many families are busy preparing new year's goods and buying new year's gifts. In the Spring Festival, it is inevitable that there will be some festive objects to decorate the room, such as blessings, window grilles, lucky pendants of the zodiac, etc. In fact, there was no need to buy window grilles before, and many families cut and paste them themselves. On a square inch of red paper, a festive image was cut out.

"Window grilles" are commonly known as paper cutting. In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, southerners usually post them only when they get married, but the custom of stick grilles in the northern Spring Festival is still popular in many places. Why do you want stick grilles during the Spring Festival? This is closely related to the solar terms in beginning of spring. Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in his poem: "Engraving gold to praise Jing customs, cutting green to create customs." The "Beijing custom" and "Jin style" in the poem point out this origin. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the time to cut and paste window grilles to welcome the Spring Festival began in beginning of spring, and people used paper-cutting to express their happy mood.

Window grilles can not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also bring people beautiful enjoyment, integrating decoration, appreciation and practicality. Today, when DIY is advocated, if you have time, you might as well buy some red paper, try to cut small window grilles yourself and decorate your home with skillful hands.

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Write Spring Festival couplets to keep the family safe and happy.

Like window grilles, many families also have a pair of Spring Festival couplets in their new year's goods lists, and some exquisite families also buy door gods. It's more difficult for the door gods to make their own, but Spring Festival couplets can still try to write by themselves, which not only exercises calligraphy, but also improves the literary level.

Spring Festival couplets, like window grilles, have a history of thousands of years. According to the records in Jade Candle Collection and Yanjing Year, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach symbols". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. Later, people wrote couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and auspiciousness and posted them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.