The Meaning of Chinese New Year Red

What is Lunar New Year red?

Pasted Nianhong, that is, is to paste the Spring Festival couplets, door god, banner, New Year's paintings, Fukuji, window, etc., because these are the New Year's red festive Yuan has been posted, so it is known as pasted Nianhong. Paste red is the traditional Chinese New Year's custom, adding a festive atmosphere, and sent people to the New Year, the new year and the new life of the beautiful expectations. When people in front of their homes to paste the red, means that the Spring Festival officially kicked off.

What is the significance of the red stickers?

Adding atmosphere to the old

The Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals of the Chinese nation, and during the Spring Festival it is full of blessings and wishes, so to speak, and it is full of joy. In the Spring Festival there are many traditional customs, such as getting rid of the old, welcoming the spring to receive blessings, praying and wishing for a good year and other activities in the form of unfolding a good atmosphere, rich in content. In an era of rapid change, traditional Chinese New Year customs have been given new connotations and ways of presentation. However, some customs still continue, such as dust sweeping, New Year's shopping, posting New Year's red, reunion dinners, year-end vigil and other traditional customs.

Traditional customs have high expectations

Posting the New Year's red is a very popular traditional custom in China. On the day of the Spring Festival, every household will put up the New Year's red, which is also known as the red elements of the Spring Festival couplets and lucky charms, to set up a celebratory atmosphere. According to the existing customs of China, the Spring Festival no longer only refers to the first day of the new year. In people's minds, the Spring Festival begins in the second half of December of the lunar calendar and continues to be lively until after the Lantern Festival. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family has to select the annual red, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of disaster removal, welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

Posting the red to protect the peace

In folklore, there is a reason why people like to use the red element on the occasion of the Spring Festival. In ancient times, legend has it that there is a monster 'Nian', which can harm people. Every New Year's Eve that time will appear to wreak havoc, eat people, etc., and then clever people realized that the year is very afraid of the color red, afraid of the sound of explosions. Then people thought that red is an auspicious color, from that time onwards, every New Year's Eve, people have to make red couplets, window decorations, lanterns and firecrackers to scare the year. After that, people used this way every year to keep the peace.