Chinese people would like to have a lively and festive Spring Festival. On the streets, you will see red couplets on the gate of each household, which are the most festive and lively! Spring Festival couplets come from peach wood charms against evil in ancient times. They describe the historical background with neat, antithetical, concise, and smart words, and express good wishes. They are national customs and culture passed down from generation to generation in China. Paper-cut for window decorations, also known as paper cutting, is the oldest and most special folk art in China. Materials for paper cutting can be obtained easily and there are many different techniques. The lively paper-cuts for window decorations stand for the festive, auspicious, happy, and perfect Spring Festival. For thousands of years, paper cuttings always appear on doors and windows, walls of sheds, cupboards, and colored lanterns during festivals of the Chinese people.

The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is coming. Calligraphers, craftsmen, and children write couplets and auspicious character “Fu” and make paper cuttings of “auspicious dragons” to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.