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Handmade New Year Gifts Course

The manual New Year gift tutorial is as follows:

Tools needed: colored paper, scissors, glue, pen.

1. First, find a piece of red colored paper, fold the colored paper in half, and cut out several circles.

2. Fold the circle in half and put it together to form a lantern. We can make two lanterns.

3. Stick lanterns on greeting cards, draw yellow stripes up and down, and add tassels below.

Cut out the clouds with blue paper and stick them on the lanterns.

Write New Year greetings at the bottom of the greeting card, and a simple and lovely New Year greeting card will be completed.

New Year's customs include cleaning dust, putting up Spring Festival couplets, putting up New Year pictures, observing the New Year, paying New Year greetings, setting off firecrackers and having a reunion dinner. Dust removal: Dust removal, also called house cleaning, house cleaning, dust removal, slag removal and dust removal, is one of the traditional folk Chinese New Year customs in China.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets, also known as spring stickers, door couplets and couplets, are one of the red festive elements "Year Red" pasted during the New Year. New Year's Picture: New Year's Picture is a kind of painting in China, which started from the ancient "door-god painting" and is one of the folk arts and crafts in China.

The New Year is the beginning of a year. Starting from unity, Vientiane will be renewed. 65438+1 October1is the first day of the Gregorian New Year, and people are used to calling it New Year's Day. In Song Dynasty, Wu said in Dream: "The first day of the first month is called New Year's Day, and the custom is called New Year's Day. This is the first one. " Literally, Yuan is the beginning and Dan is the morning. As a holiday time, it refers to the morning of the first day of the first month of each year.

The beginning of the new year. Traditional China society has a different understanding of "New Year" from the West, and has always regarded "the first day of the first month" as the beginning of "New Year", which was the case in ancient China, and New Year's Day was the first day of the first month.

Before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the specific date of New Year's Day was not uniform. Xia dynasty is the first day of the first lunar month, Shang dynasty is the first day of the second lunar month, Zhou dynasty is the first day of the first lunar month and Qin dynasty is the first day of the first lunar month. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, taichu calendar was used instead, and the first day of the first month in the summer calendar was renamed as "New Year's Day", which has been used by successive dynasties since then.