Decorations are the most important aspect of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations. The festive Chinese New Year decorations at home, door and windows of  Chinese household can be presented through some of the ornaments that symbolize health, happiness, and wealth. Lunar New Year ornaments, are usually tie in traditional symbols and incorporate the colors red and gold in the decorations. This of course will change the interior space into lively.

Symbolic of Chinese New Year Decorations

Spring Couplet

The Spring Couplet also known as “Chun Lian” or “Red Couplet” is one of the decorations written on a red paper often with a gold trimming and usually made up of four Chinese characters with happy wishes hang in front of Chinese house doors or kitchen before the Chinese New Year celebration.Spring couplets have three pieces, two longer ones vertically hung on each side of the door, and one shorter one horizontally hung on the top of the door. The spring couplet messages of happy wishes may look like “May you enjoy continuous good health” and “May the Star of Happiness, the Star of Wealth.

Stick Grilles & “Happiness” Upside Down

Chinese like to stick up various paper-cutting in the window grilles. – Not only the festive grilles foil festal atmosphere, also set decoration, appreciating and practical at an organic whole. Paper-cutting is in our country is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years, very popular, because it mostly is posted on the window, so is also called it “window flower”. Grilles with its peculiar generalization and hyperbole will auspicious thing auspicious thing, good wishes show incisively and vividly, will festival decorated flourishing richly.

In the Spring Festival couplet, at the same time, some family wants in the door, wall, signage pasted greatly small “fu” character. The Spring Festival is stuck “fu” character, it is our country folk time-honoured custom. “Fu” character blessing, good fortune, refers to consign people to happiness refers to consign people to happiness life yearning, to the glorious future wishes. In order to more fully embody the yearning and wishes, some people simply will “fu” character topsy-turvy stick, said “happiness has to” “blessing has to”. Folk and “fu” character of pure tracing fine made all sorts of design, the pattern has ginseng.longevity, peach, carps jumping over the dragon gate, the grain and multiply it, longfeng ChengXiang etc.

Plants and Flowers

During Chinese New Year celebration every Chinese household get him or herself a live blooming plants to represent rebirth and new growth. Flowers like plum blossoms are stands for courage and hope.

Lanterns

Select beautiful Chinese New Year lantern decorations to hang throughout your home or venue. Hang the lanterns both inside and outside of your home. Use the outdoor lanterns to help guests identify your home for a Chinese New Year party.

Take-out Boxes

Set up a table specifically for Chinese New Year party favors. Display the favors so they have a two-fold effect (serving as both favors and decorations). Put Chinese fortune cookies inside red take-out boxes. Decorate the outside of the boxes with gold designs, writing, or symbols.

Table Setting

Host a Chinese New Year party and be selective when it comes to the table settings. Lay down the foundation of the table with a red tablecloth. Use gold dinner plates and napkins. Place a centerpiece in the middle of the table such as a dragon figurine to symbolize power and good luck.

Oranges and Tangerines

Tangerines and Oranges are prominent Chinese New Year Decoration which symbolize luck and wealth. Put the oranges and tangerines in a bowl and place them in the middle of the tables for centerpieces. Tangerines with leaves intact assure that one’s relationship with the other remains secure. For newlyweds, this represents the branching of the couple into a family with many children. Oranges and tangerines are symbols for abundant happiness.

Candy Tray

Candy tray is also known as Chuen-hop or “Tray of Togetherness”, is a specially designed decoration item for this time of the year which is full of dried fruits, sweets and candies to welcome guests and relatives who drop by. After taking several pieces of candy from the tray, red envelopes (lai see) are placed on the center compartment of the tray with envelope content representing good fortune.

• Candied melon – growth and good health
• Red melon seed – dyed red to symbolize joy, happiness, truth and sincerity
• Leeches nut – strong family relationships
• Cumquat – prosperity (gold)
• Coconut – togetherness
• Peanuts – long life
• Longnan – many good sons
• Lotus seed – many children

Plan out your Chinese New Year decorations ahead of time, and don’t forget to clean your home in advance of setting up the décor. Clean away any ill-fortune, and welcome luck for the upcoming new year!