Lunar New Year is also know as Chinese Spring Festival. It is a quite a long story as to why it is called Spring Festival but the short version is that it is mainly based on mainland Chinese ruling. Spring 春 is widely used on the Chinese New Year theme or Auspicious words on Festival Couplets (New Year’s wishes on pieces of red papers) like:
迎春接福 Yíng chún jiē fú – Greet the New Year and encounter happiness
春回大地 chūn huí dà dì – Spring has come back to the earth
Now I am going to show you how to use paper to cut out 春 paper cutting.
You need:
- a sheet of red square paper
- pencil
- sharp scissor
- Fold the paper along the midpoints and all the diagonals as shown below. Note: Please do not draw on the paper. I have simply drawn on it for easier visibility for the photo.
- Fold it and stand it up like a triangle.
- Now fold in the middle to make a triangle and draw the word like this: Note: Please use a pencil, not use black marker pen to draw. This was just for the purposes of the photo as a pencil would not show up very well on the photo.
- Cut out the pieces as shown.
Now you can either hang it or place it on your desk or even decorate it with gold lines around the word.
If you want to know more about the rest of the Chinese New Year Craft, do check out my Pinterest board: http://www.pinterest.com/etspeaksfrom/chinese-new-year/
P/S: Photos updated on Jan 2023.
This is super … I’ve done a bit of paper cutting myself, but only flat stuff … this 3D one looks really good and has sparked off so many ideas in my head! 🙂
That’s lovely! It’s so bautiful and I love that it says spring. These are great posts Eileen 🙂
Wow – I love your crafts so much! This is like a Chinese version of the Christmas snowflake, but far more impressive! This is defo being worked into our craft routine. I love the connotations of spring too – so this is a great all rounder 🙂
What a clever craft, I think i’ll pop to the shop to get some red card as you’ve made this look so easy! x
Another brilliant piece of crafting – you are the craft wizard! Not sure my efforts would be quite as good as yours 🙂
Great to have some ‘insider knowledge’ to broaden our understanding and celebration of Chinese New Year, thanks!
Ooh my eldest son’s birthday is I believe on Chinese new year 31st Jan?! he is mega impressed by that so will make some of these with the 3 big kiddies
My dad knew someone at his work who did crafts like this, we got a few and look brill .x
You keep reminding me that I nee to find a Chinese outfit for my son for preschool…
Great craft idea – D’s just got into paper aeroplanes, so I think he’d like this.
This is fantastic… I am definitely going to have to try this out! Thank you for sharing it, I loved reading about Festival Couplets and the Chinese Spring Festival.