To welcome the Spring Festival in China, many families will decorate their homes with festive decorations, such as pasting Spring Festival couplets, spring cards, blessing cards or placing New Year flowers, hoping to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new.

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During the Spring Festival, home is the main social and activity place. Decorating the home with "New Year style" is an important part of the New Year ritual. In a busy year, having a family reunion dinner, entertaining relatives and friends, gathering and playing games in a warm and lively home is what everyone looks forward to most. Having a New Year style in your home can not only improve your happiness during the New Year, but also make a good impression on your friends and family, boding well for the coming year.

Cleaning Up

Before decorating your home, it is a traditional custom for Chinese people to sweep the dust before the Spring Festival. When the Spring Festival comes, every family must clean the home, clean all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains. Everywhere filled with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the Chinese New Year. Cleaning the house is also to express people's good wishes for a healthy life and good luck.

Decorations with The Festival Theme

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The Spring Festival is a very important festival for Chinese people. In this festive festival, people will get together with families and friends. The streets were also very busy and festive. You will see the color red is everywhere. In China, red is a bright color, symbolizing happiness. Since ancient times, every festival, marriage, from the decoration of lanterns, clothing appliances, decoration equipment, all with bright red color to reflect the elegant demeanour of the event, not only expressed the congratulations to the festival, the joy of the heart also emanates from the red. Red, a symbol of auspicious red, also extends to convey a permanent festive atmosphere. Here are a few representative decorations.

Chinese Knot

Chinese knot is a unique hand-woven handicraft in China. It was originally a clothing knot in the Paleolithic age, and then evolved into today's decorative craft. Chinese knot has many different shapes such as flowers, birds, dragons, fish, shoes and so on, as well as double money knot, cross knot, auspicious knot and so on. It represents unity, happiness and peace, and combines with modern life, developed into two series of products of hanging ornaments and clothing. Therefore, during Chinese New Year, hanging Chinese knot at home can also mean happy reunion, good luck.

Couplets

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The Chinese folk custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in Song Dynasty and became popular in Ming Dynasty. The popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in Ming Dynasty. So Spring Festival couplets have a history of thousands of years. The original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach charms". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the peach board, one S to suppress evil, two to express their good wishes, three to decorate the door, in order to beautiful. Later, people write couplets on red paper, which symbolizes happiness and good luck, and paste them on both sides of doors and Windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.

The Spring Festival couplet, also known as "Spring Couplet" and "Door pair", is a unique literary form in China and an important symbol of Chinese people's Spring Festival. It with antithesis neat, concise and exquisite words to depict good image, express good wishes. There is no limit to the number of words in the upper and lower lines, but they must be equal, and the two sides should correspond to each other. The "horizontal batch" in the middle is stuck on the crossbar of the lintel, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters, welcome good luck and accept good fortune. In China, we usually paste the couplets the 30th day of the last lunar month.

Red Lantern

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Lanterns, are traditional handicrafts of the Han nationality in ancient China, originating in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lanterns are a combination of painting art, paper cutting and other crafts. There are palace lanterns, gauze lanterns and other types of lanterns. In terms of shapes, there are figures, mountains and waters, flowers and birds, etc., as well as horse-riding lanterns for enjoyment. Every year from Spring Festival to Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, people hang red lanterns, which symbolize reunion, to create a festive atmosphere.

Paper-cut for Window Decoration

Paper-cuts are paper-cuts pasted on window paper or window glass, one of the traditional folk arts of the Han nationality in ancient China. It has a long history, unique style, loved by people at home and abroad. Paper-cut is a characteristic art of farming culture. The geographical environment of rural life, agricultural production characteristics and social customs also make this local art with distinctive folk taste and artistic characteristics of the Han nationality. Regardless of north and south, paper-cuts are pasted during the Spring Festival. To set off the festive atmosphere.

Zodiac Doll

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In ancient times, the twelve zodiac animals were used to mark the year and played an important role in Chinese traditional culture. Having a doll at home will give it a more vibrant and festive feel. The year 2022 is the Year of the tiger, you can buy Buy some tiger dolls to decorate your home. That must be adorable.

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