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How to make handmade greeting cards for the Double Ninth Festival is simple and floating.

The simple and beautiful steps to make handmade greeting cards for the Double Ninth Festival are as follows:

1. First, choose a piece of colored paper you like and cut it into thin strips.

2. Then we began to stick it on the corner of a4 paper, because we have to make many flowers, so we arranged it in the corner of the paper. Stick the cross first, then stick the M-shape, and stick it in the gap in turn.

3, petals can be posted more, so that flowers will appear full and layered. Roll up each petal with a tool.

4, the inner petals should be tightly rolled, and the outer layer can be slightly rolled, so that the layering of the petals will come out. After all rolled up, you can adjust it slightly according to your own preferences.

5. Cut a smaller circle with yellow paper and cut it around. Roll up each petal with a fine tool such as a cotton swab, and roll it a little toward the center as a flower heart.

6. Use a colored pen to point a little in the middle of the flower heart as a bud. Insert it in the middle of the red chrysanthemum, so that a fireworks chrysanthemum is ready.

7. Make a pink one according to the above steps, and the position can be arranged at will.

8. Make a little change to this pink chrysanthemum, just two layers of petals, and then make him a layer of small petals according to the practice of flower heart. Finally, cut a small circle with yellow paper, point the stamens and stick them in the middle.

9. Let's make another blue bud and stick it in the right place, just like the flower heart.

10. Finally, draw the leaves and stems of chrysanthemum with drawing strokes, draw a vase, decorate the vase simply, and a chrysanthemum greeting card for the Double Ninth Festival will be completed.

The origin of greeting cards

Emperor Taizong greeted the ministers with greeting cards. Every Spring Festival and Spring Festival, from the head of state to ordinary people, he has the habit of sending greeting cards to relatives and friends. When did the greeting card, a special blessing medium, come into being, why has it spread so far, and what kind of development and changes have it experienced?

China's traditional culture attaches great importance to "ceremony", which was once the essence of China culture. Many contents in etiquette are expressed through forms, such as greeting cards. Giving greeting cards before important personal activities or public holidays is solemn in form on the one hand, and convenient for both parties to inform each other in advance on the other. So since the Han Dynasty, greeting cards have been preserved as a traditional form, but the name has changed.