Every Chinese Spring Festival, people will paste the Spring Festival couplet, at the same time, will aslo paste greatly small “fu” word in the door, wall, door head. The Spring Festival paste “fu” word, is our country folk time-honoured custom. “Fu” word refers to the blessing, good fortune, showing the people to the happy life yearning for a better future, wish. In order to more fully reflect the yearning and wishes, some people simply will “fu” character topsy-turvy stick, said “happiness has to” “blessing has to”. Folk and “fu” word fine trace fine make it all sorts of design, design is the god of longevity, peach, carp jump longmen, a bumper grain harvest, in extremely good fortune, etc.
Every year before the Chinese New Year’s Day, people would decorate their house with flowers, pot plants, paper cuttings, New Year door scrolls, red lanterns and New Year pictures, and the fu character fu Chinese New Year paper cutting is an indispensable part. Here is a guide of how to make your own fu paper cutting for Chinese New Year.
What You Need
- Red paper – One square of flexible paper
- Pencil
- Sharp scissors
- Stapler
- Black marker (or other coloring tool)
- Craft Knife
Instructions
Step1. Make sure your red paper is a perfect square-shaped by measuring it.
Step2. Fold it 3 times and crease the edge really well, following the steps below: so that we can make the decorative patterns on the four sides are the same.
Step3. Draw the decorative patterns on the folded paper (remember, the white part is to be cut of or carved off). Use the stapler to force the eight layers of paper to be together tightly.
Step4. Use your sharp scissors and cutter to cut off or to carve off the spare part and create the beautiful decorative patterns. And then open it after finished.
Step5. Rotate the paper to the right by 45-degree before you draw it, so it is looking like a diamond. Draw the outline of the fu character in the middle.
Step6. Lastly color in the fu character in black, and your Chinese New Year paper cutting is done!
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