New Year's crafts

Handmade works related to the New Year include red lanterns, firecrackers, beautiful window decorations, Chinese knots, paper cuttings, and Spring Festival couplets written by yourself, etc. These works contain some festive elements unique to New Year customs, which make the festive atmosphere stronger, and among them, the most common ones are paper cuttings of window decorations and couplets.

Paper-cutting includes window flower, door paper, wall flower, ceiling flower, lamp flower, pattern, happy flower, spring flower, funeral flower and so on. Paper cutting is also a kind of folk art, its generation and circulation with the rural festival customs have a close relationship. For example, the window, door, lanterns, is in the Spring Festival or Lantern Festival when the paste hanging. New Year's Eve, the windows of the new white windowpaper, the top of the red and green windowpane, door tops, in front of the window, the door to the paper, the lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival on the lanterns, the New Year's Day atmosphere to create a strong.

The symbolism of the Spring Festival couplets: one is to express their good wishes, black characters on a red background, steady and brightly colored, expressing a family's good wishes for the New Year. The second is to decorate the portal, in order to seek beautiful, in the symbol of good luck and auspicious red paper to write couplets, the new year stickers in the windows and doors, to express people praying for good luck in the coming year's good wishes. Spring Festival couplets are a unique form of literature in China that depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes in neat and concise words. The Spring Festival couplets used to be peach symbols, which were an important symbol of the Spring Festival for Chinese people.