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How to make Chinese New Year crafts (simple)

The easiest Chinese New Year crafts are as follows:

Materials to prepare: red cardboard, gold cardboard, gold silk thread, gold colored pens, glue gun, scissors. Use gold silk thread and beads to make hanging spikes. Cut the red cardstock into a six-petal flower pattern along the picture below, and trace the edges with gold colored pens. Bend the petals upward along the bottom to make an inward arch. Make a finger ring light holder out of gold cardstock and secure it to the bottom with a glue gun.

Put the hanging spike through the bottom of the lantern and tie a knot to secure. Attach the top five corners of the petals and secure the remaining corner with gold thread. Paste the last corner to form the lantern. The finished lantern can be hung anywhere, or paired with a dead tree branch to add a touch of antiquity.

The Spring Festival is also traditionally known as the "New Year Festival". Commonly known as New Year, New Year, New Year, New Jubilee, Jubilee, Dainian, etc., and verbally known as the year of the year, the celebration of the year, the New Year, the New Year, the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of the year to pray for the annual sacrifice.

Everything is based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the New Year's Eve, honoring the sky and the ancestors, and reporting back to the beginning. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the development of inheritance. During the Spring Festival, a variety of activities are held throughout the country to celebrate the new year, a lively and festive atmosphere overflowing.

The traditional custom of the Spring Festival is to sweep the house to welcome the New Year. "The 24th day of the month of waxing, dusting and sweeping the house", the residence of the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, our country in the era of Yao, Shun Yu, there is a Spring Festival custom of dust sweeping. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "dust cloth new", the intention is to sweep out all the bad luck, bad luck.

This custom is based on people's desire to break with the old and bring in the new and their prayers for the old and the new. The whole family is full of happy health, clean and welcome the new year's atmosphere.