Is that what the chinese characters say? Like to add something in chinese text like that to the big Lunar New Year artwork. So let me know.
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To welcome the new year, households will hang 春聯s (spring couplets) on their doors. The season's greetings are written on red pieces of paper because according to tradition, red color spreads good vibes and scare away the bad spirits. (Firecrackers do the same 🥳). There's so many lunar new year traditions and it's different everywhere. Taiwan has a lot of fun because of the diversity of Chinese culture, immigrants across southeast Asia, and even our own traditions; all sorts of traditions are followed around the island.
The couplets often follow the theme of the zodiac year, people come up with new ones all the time. Chinese is full of homonyms, and the character for dragon 龍 has many to play with. (It also flies, breathes fire, and hangs out with the gods🤣). Lunar New Year is the time of year where calligraphy skills come into play, because come on, spirits don't give out good fortune to those with bad penmanship 🤭, right?
Common sayings are 恭喜發財 新年快樂. For your project, shove in 龍年吉祥 語 in Google and you'll find a bunch of sayings for the dragon year
The one I posted has a 謙卑 (humble) inside a dragon. 一飛沖天 translates roughly to "fly straight up to the sky/heavens"
Thanks love this information. I am in Bangkok around china town and love to learn these things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uJbp8d_d9c&t=1 this might be fun 👍
Lunar new year is a whole rabbit hole 🕳️ no one can point to where most traditions come from and everyone grows up with different folktales 😂
Cool. Thanks. So there is also where the gods on the door in the shrine come from. Love it to learn more about it. Thanks 🙏 
Oh it gets better! Every household has a "kitchen/stove god" (灶神) which reports to the jade emperor/God (玉皇大帝) on how the household behaved over the year. The jade emperor determines the household's fortune for the coming year off of this new years eve report 👀, so households are sure to butter him up by decorating his effigy and preparing offerings before he heads to the heavens and hands over his report 😂
Haha so cool. Is this also why for example in Vietnam but also saw it here in Bangkok they have a whole table full of food with a pig head on it?
A whole head is quite a celebration 😱 seems like they know how to have a good time there! Common traditions are to give thanks on the 15th day of each lunar month by offering to the gods before consuming the food, it's like saying grace before a meal only the ceremony explicitly gives the spirits some time to munch on the food. Candles and incense are used to welcome the spirits to come enjoy 🥳
In a nutshell, Bigger holidays = more food and celebration of more spirits
Thanks for all the info. Love it 🙏 Every culture is so much fun to learn from.
On the shrine doors are Menshen (門神, they keep the bad spirits out, there's a story about them in Journey to the West! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshen
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