New Year's Handicrafts

Handmade works about the New Year include big red paper lanterns, paper firecrackers, beautiful paper flowers, Chinese knots, paper cuttings, spring couplets written by ourselves and so on.

Paper cuttings and spring couplets belong to the New Year's custom of "posting the New Year's red", which means spring couplets, door gods, crosswords, New Year's paintings, and the word "blessing", etc., and all of these red celebratory elements that are posted at New Year's are known as the New Year's red. It is a traditional New Year's custom to put up the red color on the 29th or 30th day of the Lunar New Year before the Spring Festival, which can increase the festive atmosphere and make the streets and alleys full of joy.

Chinese New Year couplets are what people used to call "peach symbols" in ancient times, and that was the original Chinese New Year couplets. Later, people will also be posted in the spring time "Yichun", that is, spring stickers, and then slowly developed the spring couplets. Spring Festival couplets are more neat and concise, the text couplets, but also sent people's good wishes and good wishes for the New Year life.

Shou Nian (守岁)：

Also known as Shou Nian (照虚耗), Shou Nian (熬年), Shou Nian Huo (守岁火), and Shou Nian (照岁), it is a Chinese folklore activity. In the New Year's Eve family reunion, all burning lamps and candles all night, stay up all night to meet the arrival of the Lunar New Year.

The New Year's Eve vigil begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time of the lanterns, and some people eat late into the night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve is not only a way of saying goodbye to the years that have passed, but also a way of expressing hope for the coming New Year.

New Year's Eve night before the New Year, folk activities are mainly manifested in the point of the fire, the fire, that is, all the houses are lit all over the lamps and candles, the family get-together, to meet the New Year. New Year's Eve lights and candles throughout the night, called the "light wastage", it is said that so after the light of the year, will make the next year's wealth at home.