Why do you put window clippings on windows in the north?

Window flowers are paper cutouts that are pasted on window paper or window glass. In the past, regardless of the north and south, during the Spring Festival are stickers. Now the South only when the marriage is posted, the Spring Festival is generally not posted, while the North is still prevalent in the window decals. Window flowers not only set off a festive atmosphere, but also for people to bring the enjoyment of beauty, decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

Window flowers are evolved from paper-cutting. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so people generally call it "window flowers". Paper cutting has a close relationship with the spring festival, the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin once wrote in a poem: "Skeletonization of gold as a victory in the Jing custom, cut green for people to rise Jin style". The "Jing custom" and "Jin style" in the poem point out this style. And clearly stated the customs of the Jin people. After the Song and Yuan, cut and paste window flowers to welcome the spring time will be changed from the spring to the Spring Festival, people use paper-cutting to express their happy mood to celebrate the spring on earth.

Window flowers are the most widely distributed, the largest number of folk paper cutting, the most popular varieties. Other paper-cutting varieties are based on the development and extension of the window flower. North and south of the rural areas in the Spring Festival period to stick window, so as to achieve the purpose of decorating the environment, rendering the atmosphere, and to send the old to welcome the new, to receive the blessing of auspicious wishes. Window flowers regardless of the subject matter, expression, cutting and engraving techniques are the most representative of the art of cutting and engraving. Nearly, modern window part-time has gradually formed an independent art category, but because they were originally from the folk festivities or folk activities in the clip art, and more than pasted on the white paper of the rural windows and is called "window". For everyone, window decoration is a wonderful title that can cause many feelings and emotions. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the Spring Festival, this day, window decorations to decorate the living environment has become an important part of the Spring Festival celebrations in China.

Window flowers are rich in content and a wide range of subjects. Because the buyers of window flowers are mostly farmers, there are quite a lot of content in the window flowers to show the life of farmers, such as farming, weaving, fishing, shepherding, feeding pigs, chickens, etc. In addition, there are myths and legends. In addition, there are myths and legends, opera stories and other subjects. In addition, birds, flowers, insects and fish and the twelve signs of the zodiac and other images are also very common.

Window decorations, with their characteristic generalization and exaggeration, express auspicious events and good wishes to the fullest, and decorate the festival with red-hot, rich and joyful.