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| The God of Wealth |
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| The god of wealth is the most widely worshipped god in China, and according to folk legend, the fifth day of the first lunar month is the god's birthday. |
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| Brief Introduction to Spring Festival |
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| The oldest and most important festival in China is the Spring Festival, which marks a new year on the lunar calendar. The Spring Festival represents the desire for a new life. |
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| Home for the Holidays |
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| For Chinese people, it is very important to go back home to celebrate the Spring Festival no matter how far away from home they are. |
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| New Year's First Meal |
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| After the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, or Chuxi in Chinese, it is the New Year! The menu for the first meal of the New Year is not a thorny problem for us Chinese. |
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| Papercuts |
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| Papercuts refer to handicrafts made by cutting paper with scissors to form different patterns and pasting them on walls, windows, doors and ceilings. |
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| Door Gods |
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| Putting up or changing door gods, is an important custom among the Chinese during Spring Festival. Door gods are pictures of deities posted on the door outside and inside the house. |
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| Chinese Knot |
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| Chinese Knot or Chinese traditional decorating Knot is a kind of characteristic folk decorations of handicraft art. |
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| 'Fu' Character |
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| The character "fu" is everywhere during the festival. On the doors of shops and families and even in rooms, people like to paste high the "fu" character calligraphed on red paper. |
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| New Year paintings |
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| Chinese New Year paintings pinned up on doors, room walls and windows on the Chinese New Year to invite heavenly blessings and ward off disasters and evil spirits - which dates back to the Qin and Han dynasties. |
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| Fireworks and Firecrackers |
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| Fireworks and firecrackers, known as Yanhua and Baozhu in Chinese, were originally made of real bamboo.They were traditionally set off to frighten away ghosts and monsters so that the New Year would be free of them. |
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| Spring Couplets |
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| On the Chinese New Year, families in China decorate their front doors with poetic couplets of calligraphy written with fragrant India ink, expressing the feeling of life's renewal and the return of spring. |
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