Crafts about Chinese New Year

Big red paper lanterns, paper firecrackers, pretty paper flowers, Chinese knots, paper cuttings, Spring Festival couplets written by yourself and so on.

Crafts about New Year include big red paper lanterns, paper firecrackers, pretty paper flowers, Chinese knots, paper cuttings, spring couplets written by yourself and so on. These handmade works all contain some festive elements unique to New Year's customs, making the festive atmosphere more intense. The most common among them are paper-cut window flowers and couplets.

Paper-cutting and couplets belong to the New Year custom of "posting red", red is the spring couplets, door god, banner, New Year's paintings, "Fu" characters, etc., these red festive elements posted on New Year's Day are called 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.

In addition to the Spring Festival couplets, there are also window decorations, "Fu" characters, New Year's paintings are the New Year's red to be posted, but also for the New Year to add a festive and happy atmosphere. In the door, wall and furniture will be posted on the large and small red, so that the New Year more colorful.

What are the unique customs of the New Year in the North

The unique customs of the New Year in the North include rituals, posting spring couplets, sweeping the old, posting New Year's paintings, posting hanging stickers, firecrackers, New Year's greetings, twisting rice-planting songs, paying homage to the ancestors, and sending Zaoshen and so on, and in the Spring Festival, people will be prepared to pay tribute to the deceased relatives.