5 Decorations for Chinese New Year

Spring Festival is coming, Chinese do most of the decoration for the Spring Festival on New Year's Eve, although people begin to decorate their houses around 10 days before. Almost all decorations involved the color red and lucky images. 2018 is a year of the Dog, so dog decorations will appear.

1. Chinese Red Lanterns — Drive Off Bad Luck

Chinese lanterns are used in important festivals such as the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year to the Lantern Festival) and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

During Chinese New Year it is not uncommon to see lanterns hung on trees in the streets, office buildings, and doors of houses. Hanging a red lantern in front of the door is believed to drive off bad luck.

2. Door Couplets — Best Wishes for the Coming Year

New Year couplets are pasted on doors. On the couplets, good wishes or statements are expressed.

New Year good wishes are usually posted in pairs (i.e. couplets), as even numbers are associated with good luck and auspiciousness in Chinese culture. Couplets are brush works of Chinese calligraphy, in black ink on red paper.

The two usually-seven-character lines of the couplet are affixed on the two sides of a doorway. Many are poems about the arrival of spring.

3. Paper Cuttings — Luck and Happiness

Paper cutting is the art of cutting designs out of paper (any color, but typically red for the Spring Festival), and then gluing them to a contrasting backing or a transparent surface (e.g. a window). It is customary for people in northern and central China to paste red paper cuttings on doors and windows.

4. New Year Paintings — a Symbol of New Year's Greetings

New Year Paintings are pasted on doors and walls during the New Year for decorative purposes and as a symbol of New Year's greetings. Images on the paintings are auspicious legendary figures and plants.

5. Upside-Down Fu Characters — Luck 'Poured Out'

The fu characters are deliberately inverted. Fu means 'good fortune', and posting the character upside down means they want the 'good fortune' to "pour out" on them.

The right side of the character was originally a pictogram for a jar. So by upturning the character implies they're "pouring out" the jar of good fortune on those coming through the door!

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