Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Would you like to give your gift an unusual touch or perhaps you would like to show off your paper craft skills to impress your family and friends? Then Paper Cutting For Celebrations is the perfect book for you. This book is written by Zhao Ziping who is a professional paper cutting artist at the Shanghai Arts & Crafts research institute, and was published by Tuttle Publishing in June 2014. It is available to buy on Amazon.
Last week, while I was looking to buy a piping book, I came across a pack of round origami sheets at The Works. So I decided to use it to make paper snowflakes. As the weather has turned cold, this is a great craft for a winter theme and to use the snowflakes to decorate around the Christmas tree or windows! To make these paper snowflakes, you will need the following.
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
