Spring Festival Handicrafts
By admin on 2014-12-16

“Fu”

“Fu”, pronounced as “Foo” is certainly a lucky word for Chinese. It means fortune, luck, blessings and happiness. The tradition of pasting the character “Fu” on walls, doors and doorposts especially during Chinese New Year has existed among Chinese for such a long time. Chinese like to paste the “Fu” character calligraphed on red paper upside down intentionally. It is because Chinese pronunciation of “upside down” is the same as “arrival”. Thus, an upside down “Fu” means the arrival of good luck!

Couplet

Spring Festival couplet is a special type of Chinese couplets as part of its celebration. In addition to the upper and lower couplet on the right and left door post, propitious words (normally four characters) also pasted across the lintel at the top of the door. Spring couplet is a temporary decoration to be placed on the entrance of the house, somewhat akin to Halloween and Christmas decorations. Those poetic couplets of calligraphy are written with fragrant ink and express the feeling of life's renewal with an happy, hopeful, uplifting message about a better New Year to come.

Paper-cuts

Paper-cuts, usually with auspicious patterns, gives a happy and prosperous atmosphere of Spring Festival. They express Chinese people’s good wishes for a better life. It is very traditional in the northern China to paste paper-cuts on windows.

Chinese knots

It is a decorative handicraft arts that began as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song Dynasty. It was later popularized in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. "Knot" In Chinese has the meanings of reunion, friendliness, warm, marriage etc, so the red Chinese knots always hang at home in Spring Festival. Today, Chinese knot has become an important element of international fashion. To fit with the needs of modern life, Chinese Knot has various products, most of which are used as auspicious hanging and knitting clothing adornment.