What do Chinese knots, New Year pictures and palace lanterns mean?

Chinese knot is a kind of home decoration, which plays an important role in the decoration of New Year and Spring Festival.

Chinese knots have a long history, which runs through human history. The long-standing cultural precipitation makes Chinese knots permeate the unique and pure cultural essence of the Chinese nation and contain rich cultural connotations.

The implication of Chinese knots is derived from the shape of the knot ornaments and its homophonic sound. Different Chinese knots have different meanings. Common ones are:

(1) Ruyijie: Everything goes well, everything goes well;

(2) concentric knot: deep love, always tied together;

(3) Taiping knot: all the best in life, peace through the years;

(4) Auspicious knot: good luck, pray for peace.

Second, the New Year pictures originated from the worship and belief in nature of ancient people in China.

The ancients thought that everything was animistic, and there would be an existence after death. They called it a "monster". Because of the existence of "monsters", the ancients had to guard against it. "Outside the door" was the best way to resist monsters, so there was a custom of sticking New Year pictures on the door to keep monsters away.

After thousands of years of cultural development in China, New Year pictures have also begun to evolve into diversified and multifaceted functions. There are "Door God" New Year pictures to ward off evil spirits and "Blessing God" New Year pictures to welcome the new year, which have now become home decorations, implying good luck.

Gong Deng, also known as Gong Deng, is one of the most distinctive traditional Han handicrafts in China.

Palace lanterns were originally just lanterns, an ancient handicraft. It has different shapes and appearances in different times. Besides lighting, its beautiful appearance has different meanings. However, because the Palace Lantern has a history of thousands of years in China, it has become a symbol of traditional culture in China.

Palace lanterns are painted with various patterns, each with different meanings and different functions, most of which are auspicious dragons and phoenixes, longevity and good luck. There are many kinds of palace lanterns, including a group of harmonious lanterns, Erxian lanterns, Sanyang Kaitai lanterns, Four Seasons Safe lanterns, Pentecostal Champion lanterns, and Six Kingdoms Fengxiang lanterns. People express their wishes through these lanterns with different contents.