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Window Blossoms are paper cuttings pasted on window paper or window glass, one of China's ancient Han traditional folk arts. It has a long history and unique style, and is loved by people at home and abroad.

Window flowers is the characteristic art of farming culture, the rural life of the geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs, also makes this vernacular art has a distinctive Han folk interest and artistic characteristics.

In the past, regardless of the north and south, the Chinese New Year period are pasted window flowers. The South is now only stick in the wedding, the Spring Festival is generally not posted. But in the north of the window sticker is still prevalent, in Fengning, Hebei, during the Spring Festival, if anyone did not stick the window sticker, people will guess whether the family is out of the question. One of the varieties of paper-cutting. In order to set a festive atmosphere, the majority of rural areas before the Spring Festival in the window posted on the paper cuttings. Window pattern, generally more free, in addition to paste in the four corners of the "corner flower" and folding cut "group flower", the outline are no restrictions. The content of the subject matter of the window is very broad, with a larger number of opera stories. They are more common in the north.

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Tusu Wine

Tusu Wine, an ancient Han Chinese custom of drinking Tusu Wine on the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year in order to avoid the plague. Therefore, it is also known as the wine of the year. Tusu is an ancient house, because it is in this kind of house brewed wine, so it is called Tusu wine. It is said that Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty, and its formula is made by soaking rhubarb, atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon sticks, antifungal, peppercorns, aconite, and epiphyllum and other traditional Chinese medicines into the wine.

The Peach Symbol

The Peach Symbol is a Han folk culture with a long history. The ancients, on the occasion of the old year and the new year, wrote the names of the two gods "Shentian" and "Yubi" on peach boards, or drew the images of the two gods on paper, and hung, embedded, or posted them at the door to pray for blessings and evils, and it is said that the peach wood has the effect of suppressing evils and driving away ghosts. This is the earliest peach talisman.

Red lanterns

Red lanterns, traditional Chinese holiday items. Whenever there is a major festival or a good time to celebrate, the majestic Tiananmen Square, the streets of many towns and cities, stores, parks, and even the doors of some large buildings and private homes will be hung up with big round red lanterns. At night, the lanterns are lit up with red light, making them look grand and joyful. However, with the increase in cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, China's international status has been enhanced, more and more foreigners have a sense of identity to the Chinese "lanterns", they see it as a traditional Chinese culture and give respect.

Window Decorations

Window Decorations are paper cuttings pasted on windowpaper or window glass, one of China's ancient Han traditional folk arts. It has a long history and unique style, and is loved by people at home and abroad. Window decoration is the characteristic art of farming culture, the rural life of the geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs, also makes this kind of vernacular art has a distinctive Han folk interest and artistic characteristics. In the past, regardless of the north and the south, the window decals were put up during the Spring Festival. The South is now only stick in the wedding, the Spring Festival is generally not stick. In the north, window decals are still prevalent, and in Fengning, Hebei Province, during the Spring Festival, if someone's family does not stick window decals, people will guess whether the family is out of order. One of the varieties of paper-cutting. In order to set a festive atmosphere, the majority of rural areas before the Spring Festival in the window posted on the paper cuttings. Window pattern, generally more free, in addition to paste in the four corners of the "corner flower" and folding cut "group flower", the outline are no restrictions. The content of the subject matter of the window is very broad, with a larger number of opera stories. Window flowers are more common in the north.

Common Chinese New Year Decorations

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Lanterns

Lanterns, also known as "lanterns," are a traditional Han Chinese folk craft originating in China, and in ancient times, their main role was to illuminate the lanterns, which were made of paper or silk. The skeleton is usually made of bamboo or wood, with a candle or light bulb in the center, making it an illuminating tool. Influenced by Chinese culture, lanterns are also quite common items in temples in many Asian countries. Lanterns are not daily practical lamps, but the Lantern Festival on the special use of a mainly decorative ornamental lamps, started in the Han Dynasty, to the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan period gradually become a social custom, widely popular in the folk and the court. To the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even modern times, the ancient traditional customs are still retained throughout the world, and become an important activity during the festival, forming a cultural phenomenon of the Festival of Lights. It is closely linked with the Han folk Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation Customs. According to evidence that the Lantern Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties are especially popular. Shanghai Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation Customs, Ming Hongzhi, Jiajing years to repair clutched the local records are recorded. From the thirteenth of the first month of the summer calendar, eighteen lights on the lights, fifteen Lantern Lantern most climax moving. Every year the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, Shencheng busy shopping streets are also lanterns high Xi, lights market is red-hot. Because of the long-standing custom of enjoying lanterns, it has promoted the development of the art of lanterns in Shanghai, and in 2008, lanterns were selected as a national intangible cultural heritage list.

Chinese New Year Couplets

Chinese New Year Couplets, also known as "Spring Stickers", "Door Pairs", and "Couplets", are red festive elements that are put up on New Year's Day. The "New Year's red" in a variety. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes in neat and concise words, which is a unique form of literature in China, and is an important custom of Chinese people at New Year. When people put up New Year's Red (Spring Festival couplets, lucky charms, window displays, etc.) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival has officially kicked off. Every Chinese New Year, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family picks beautiful red spring couplets to put on their doors to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to add to the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

Chinese paper-cutting

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, intermingled with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities. Its inherited visual image and modeling format, contains a wealth of cultural and historical information, expresses the general public's social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, ideals of life and aesthetic interests, with cognition, edification, ideology, lyricism, entertainment, communication and other social values. 2006 May 20, paper-cutting art heritage approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, the Chinese paper-cutting project declared by China was selected as a representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind.In December 2018, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a representative list of Chinese outstanding traditional cultural heritage. as a base for the transmission of Chinese paper-cutting and Chinese outstanding traditional culture.

New Year Paintings

New year paintings are a kind of Chinese paintings, which started from the ancient "Door God Paintings", is one of the Chinese folk arts, and is also one of the common folk handicrafts. New Year paintings are a unique genre of painting in China, and a popular art form among rural Chinese. Most of them are used for posting on New Year's Day to decorate the environment, and they contain the meaning of blessing the New Year with good luck and festivity, so they are called New Year paintings. Traditional folk New Year's paintings are mostly made of watermarks on wooden boards. The old Chinese New Year paintings have different names because of the size of the painting and the amount of processing. The whole picture is called "Gongjian", and a paper with three openings is called "Sancai". The more detailed processing is called "painting Gongjian" and "painting Sanjai". Those painted with gold powder are called "Jin Gongjian" and "Jin Sanjai". The products before June are called "Green Edition", and the products after July and August are called "Autumn Edition".

Window decoration is a paper cut on the windowpaper or window glass, one of China's ancient Han traditional folk art. It has a long history and unique style, and is loved by people at home and abroad.

Window flowers is the characteristic art of farming culture, the rural life of the geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs, also makes this vernacular art has a distinctive Han folk interest and artistic characteristics.

In the past, regardless of the north and south, the Chinese New Year period are pasted window flowers. The South is now only stick in the wedding, the Spring Festival is generally not stick. But in the north of the window sticker is still prevalent, in Fengning, Hebei, during the Spring Festival, if anyone did not stick the window sticker, people will guess whether the family is out of the question. One of the varieties of paper-cutting. In order to set a festive atmosphere, the majority of rural areas before the Spring Festival in the window posted on the paper cuttings. Window pattern, generally more free, in addition to paste in the four corners of the "corner flower" and folding cut "group flower", the outline are no restrictions. The content of the subject matter of the window is very broad, with a larger number of opera stories. They are more common in the north.

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The representative items of the Spring Festival in Ancient China

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Tusu Wine

Tusu Wine, an ancient Han Chinese custom of drinking Tusu Wine on the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year in order to avoid the plague. Therefore, it is also known as the wine of the year. Tusu is an ancient house, because it is in this kind of house brewed wine, so it is called Tusu wine. It is said that Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty, and its formula is made by soaking rhubarb, atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon sticks, antifungal, peppercorns, aconite, and epiphyllum and other traditional Chinese medicines into the wine.

The Peach Symbol

The Peach Symbol is a Han folk culture with a long history. The ancients, on the occasion of the old year and the new year, wrote the names of the two gods "Shentian" and "Yubi" on peach boards, or drew the images of the two gods on paper, and hung, embedded, or posted them at the door to pray for blessings and evils, and it is said that the peach wood has the effect of suppressing evils and driving away ghosts. This is the earliest peach talisman.

Red lanterns

Red lanterns, traditional Chinese holiday items. Whenever there is a major festival or a good time to celebrate, the majestic Tiananmen Square, the streets of many towns and cities, stores, parks, and even the doors of some large buildings and private homes will be hung up with big round red lanterns. At night, the lanterns are lit up with red light, making them look grand and joyful. However, with the increase in cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, China's international status has improved, and more and more foreigners have a sense of identity to the Chinese "lanterns", they see it as a traditional Chinese culture and give respect.

Window Decorations

Window Decorations are paper cuttings pasted on windowpaper or window glass, one of China's ancient Han traditional folk arts. It has a long history and unique style, and is loved by people at home and abroad. Window decoration is the characteristic art of farming culture, the rural life of the geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs, also makes this kind of vernacular art has a distinctive Han folk interest and artistic characteristics. In the past, regardless of the north and the south, the window decals were put up during the Spring Festival. The South is now only in the marriage only stick, the Spring Festival is generally not stick. In the north, window decals are still prevalent, and in Fengning, Hebei Province, during the Spring Festival, if someone's family does not stick window decals, people will guess whether the family is out of order. One of the varieties of paper-cutting. In order to set a festive atmosphere, the majority of rural areas before the Spring Festival in the window posted on the paper cuttings. Window pattern, generally more free, in addition to paste in the four corners of the "corner flower" and folding cut "group flower", the outline are no restrictions. The content of the subject matter of the window is very broad, with a larger number of opera stories. Window flowers are more common in the north.

Common Chinese New Year Decorations

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Lanterns

Lanterns, also known as "lanterns," are a traditional Han Chinese folk craft originating in China, and in ancient times, their main role was to illuminate the lanterns, which were made of paper or silk. The skeleton is usually made of bamboo or wood, with a candle or light bulb in the center, making it an illuminating tool. Influenced by Chinese culture, lanterns are also quite common items in temples in many Asian countries. Lanterns are not daily practical lamps, but the Lantern Festival on the special use of a mainly decorative ornamental lamps, started in the Han Dynasty, to the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan period gradually become a social custom, widely popular in the folk and the court. To the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even modern times, the ancient traditional customs are still retained throughout the world, and become an important activity during the festival, forming a cultural phenomenon of the Festival of Lights. It is closely linked with the Han folk Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation Customs. According to evidence that the Lantern Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties are especially popular. Shanghai Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation Customs, Ming Hongzhi, Jiajing years to repair clutched the local records are recorded. From the thirteenth of the first month of the summer calendar, eighteen lights on the lights, fifteen Lantern Lantern most climax moving. Every year the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shencheng busy shopping streets are also lanterns high Xi, lights market is red-hot. Because of the long-standing custom of enjoying lanterns, it has promoted the development of the art of lanterns in Shanghai, and in 2008, lanterns were selected as a national intangible cultural heritage list.

Chinese New Year Couplets

Chinese New Year Couplets, also known as "Spring Stickers", "Door Pairs", and "Couplets", are red festive elements that are put up on New Year's Day. The "New Year's red" in a variety. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes in neat and concise words, which is a unique form of literature in China, and is an important custom of Chinese people at New Year. When people put up New Year's Red (Spring Festival couplets, lucky charms, window displays, etc.) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival has officially kicked off. Every Chinese New Year, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family picks beautiful red spring couplets to put on their doors to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to add to the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

Chinese paper-cutting

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, intermingled with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities. Its inherited visual image and modeling format, contains a wealth of cultural and historical information, expresses the general public's social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, ideals of life and aesthetic interests, with cognition, edification, ideology, lyricism, entertainment, communication and other social values. 2006 May 20, paper-cutting art heritage approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, the Chinese paper-cutting project declared by China was selected as a representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind.In December 2018, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a representative list of Chinese outstanding traditional cultural heritage. as a base for the transmission of Chinese paper-cutting and Chinese outstanding traditional culture.

New Year Paintings

New year paintings are a kind of Chinese paintings, which started from the ancient "door god paintings", is one of the Chinese folk arts, and is also one of the common folk handicrafts. New year paintings are a unique genre of painting in China, and a popular art form among rural Chinese. Most of them are used for posting on New Year's Day to decorate the environment, and they contain the meaning of blessing the New Year with good luck and festivity, so they are called New Year paintings. Traditional folk New Year's paintings are mostly made of watermarks on wooden boards. The old Chinese New Year paintings have different names because of the size of the painting and the amount of processing. The whole picture is called "Gongjian", and a paper with three openings is called "Sancai". The more detailed processing is called "painting Gongjian" and "painting Sanjai". Those painted with gold powder are called "Jin Gongjian" and "Jin Sanjai". June before the product is called "green version", July and August after the product is called "autumn version".