The Chinese New Year 2023 celebration lasts 15 days, and it is known all over the world as the Spring Festival.
People start to decorate their houses a few days before New Year’s day, and most decorations are red, but in 2023, the lucky decorations also have a Tiger drawn.
, The Spring Festival is the time of the year when all the members of the family meet, and all those who live far away from home, return to their families.
It is an extremely crowded period in China, which is why the Chinese government had decided that everyone will have seven days off for celebrating the Chinese New Year.
The preparation for this holiday starts about a month before. For this, people buy gifts, objects, and materials to decorate their houses, clothes, and food.
Before the actual preparation of the festive dinner for the New Year, all the purchases need to be completely finalized.
Remember that the most important thing to attract good luck in the Chinese New Year is to have a lot of faith and attract positive energies to achieve what you set out to do.
The year 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, and it is announced to be one of intense activity and great energy movements. Here is how you should decorate your house to take full advantage of the positive energy and prosperity the Year of the Rabbit has to offer:
Lucky Red Lanterns
The luckiest and most popular decorations for the Chinese New Year are the red lanterns (Chinese Red Lanterns). You can hang them everywhere to attract luck: in trees, on buildings, on the house door.
New Year Couplets (对联 duìlián /dway-lyen)
On windows and doors, people hang couplets made out of red paper, written with different lines of classical Chinese poetry and greetings for the New Year, to attract luck in the house.
The lines are rhymed, and each line contains 5 or 7 characters. They are written with black ink on red paper, and they symbolize the wishes and hopes of the host for the coming year.
All the houses are decorated with red paper couplets with written greetings for wellness, happiness, prosperity, luck, health, and longevity.
Decorate Using Oranges and Tangerines
According to Chinese tradition, on the New Year, it is a good idea to decorate the dinner table with tangerines and oranges because these fruits are known to attract fortune. It is also recommended to place on the table some trays with sweets and dry fruits to ensure energy fluidization.
Paper Cuttings
The Chinese families decorate the door of their houses with red paper cut in the shape of the word “fu”, which means “luck”, but also with images depicting fishes, bats, and other animals that correspond to the respective year – in this case, the Tiger.
Metal is the element that attracts optimal energies on your side so that you can complete your goals with maximum precision and efficiency. As an element associated with west and north-west, the Feng Shui masters recommend you to choose colors such as golden and gray.
Kumquat Trees
The Kumquat trees symbolize prosperity and luck, which is why, on the Chinese New Year, we should decorate our houses with these “golden trees”.
Golden Pumpkin
If you want to have luck and money on Chinese New Year, it would be good to place on the bedroom nightstands a golden pumpkin. Also, this will protect you against sickness, and it will maintain a perfect mood.
Red Envelopes
Get ready in advance a few Chinese red envelopes. Place them on the tables, for each guest, because this is a sign of generosity and love, which will be rewarded with luck and prosperity.
Blooming Flowers
On New Year, as a symbol of rebirth, every house needs to have blooming flowers. The floral arrangements made of plum and bamboo blossoms and pine branches are very popular during this period. The plum flowers symbolize perseverance, bamboo signifies flexibility, and pine, which is evergreen, symbolizes longevity.
Glass bowl full of fruit
Apart from being used for decoration, in the esoteric world, these pots are used to bring good luck when filled with fruit.
On Chinese New Year night, they should be placed in the living room or dining room. You can also put cinnamon and vanilla sticks in them. They have a greater power to attract luck when filled with fresh fruit, not plastic.
You should also pay attention to the objects you have in your home, whether decorative or personal, if you know they have brought you good luck, whether it is a dress, a brooch, a piece of jewellery or anything else.
Square Plates and Round Teacups
Usually, a platter with oranges and tangerines, candies, and eight types of dry sweet fruits will be placed in the guest room, symbolizing “abundant happiness”. The sweets tray must be round or rectangular, and it is called “the tray of togetherness”. After some sweets are served from this platter,...
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