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• It falls on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month and the celebration lasts from the 23rd of
春联 spring festival couplets
贴春联
Pasting Spring Couplets
• “The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past t, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.
扫尘 Sweeping the Dust
we clean our houses and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red.
我们打扫房子的卫生，将霉运扫走，然后我们将门和窗户刷成红色
扫尘
Sweeping the Dust
the 12th lunar month up to the 15th of the first lunar month next year.
•What do you do in the Spring Festival?
春节习俗 Customs of the Spring Festival
• The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the evolvement of thousands of years, a series of customs are spreading far and wide.
• Paper-cuts, usually with auspicious patterns, give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”, big and small, on walls, doors and doorposts around the houses. “Fu（福）” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu（福）” to signify that blessing has arrived because “inverted” is a homonym for “arrive” in Chinese. Now many kinds of paper-cuts and “fu（福）” can be seen in the market before the Festival.
• “Dust” is homophonic with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.
When fu(福) comes to town
剪纸 paper-cuts
We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. 我们常常用剪纸将门和窗户装饰一下。
贴窗花和“福”字
Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”