{"id":7783,"date":"2012-01-14T22:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2022-04-09T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:44:39","slug":"chinese-paper-cuts-for-window-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/travel-review\/chinese-paper-cuts-for-window-decoration","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Paper Cuts for Window Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chinese Lunar New Year<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(popularly known as\u00a0Chinese\u00a0Spring Festival)\u00a02012\u00a0is around the corner, which falls on a 7-day holiday Jan 22 – 29, 2012. One way to jazz the festive atmosphere, is to stick paper cuts to windows. Chinese paper cutting decorates windows,\u00a0are also\u00a0colloquially called\u00a0“Chuang\u00a0Hua”, literally meaning”Window Flowers”. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Paper cuts crafters cut paper with scissors\u00a0or knife. Paper cutting reflects many aspects life such happiness, prosperity, health or harvet and with more designs and characters in different styles. Most of the papercuts form a symmetrical design.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Every year we at <\/span>www.tour-beijing.com<\/span><\/a> would purchase some paper cuts to decorate the windowns in our office. Beside window\u00a0 cutting, new year\u00a0pendants and couplets are also <\/span><\/div>\n
used to decorate our office. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The paper cut is stuck to the window in my office with a backdrop of the surounding area. The Chinese characters mean “First Fortune under the world” with two symmetrical dsign of dragons and fish.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The paper cut is stuck to the window in my office with a backdrop of the surounding area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
New Year’ pendents with good wishes.<\/span><\/div>\n
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New Year’ pendents with good wishes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
The door couplets are attached to the two sides by the door and one above the door.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The door couplets are attached to the two sides by the door and one above the door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tip: Hassle-free Beijing Guided Tours<\/h2>\n

If you don\u2019t want to go the do-it-yourself route and prefer the hassle-free escorted tours,\u00a0 here are some options for Beijing guided tours:<\/p>\n

Beijing Day Tour<\/a>
\nBeijing Tour Packages<\/a>
\nGreat Wall Tour<\/a>
\nBeijing City Tour<\/a>
\nBeijing Winter Tour<\/a>
\nBeijing Autumn Tour<\/a>
\nCar Rental in Beijing<\/a>
\nBeijing Tours<\/a>
\nChina City Tours<\/a>
\nChina Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

Further Readings<\/h2>\n
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Best Time to Visit Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to plan a trip to Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 Attractions in Beijing<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Forbidden City<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Temple of Heaven<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Summer Palace<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Ming Tombs<\/a>
\nHow to Visit the Great Wall of China<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Tiananmen Square<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Hutongs<\/a>
\nHow to Visit Olympic Sites<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 Markets in Beijing<\/a>
\nTop 10 Shopping Malls in Beijing<\/a>
\nBeijing Shopping<\/a><\/p>\n

Wangfujing Walking Street<\/a>
\nQianmen Commercial Street<\/a>
\nGui Jie ( Ghost Street) Food Street<\/a><\/p>\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese Lunar New Year\u00a0(popularly known as\u00a0Chinese\u00a0Spring Festival)\u00a02012\u00a0is around the corner, which falls on a 7-day holiday Jan 22 – 29, 2012. One way to jazz the festive atmosphere, is to stick paper cuts to windows. Chinese paper cutting decorates windows,\u00a0are also\u00a0colloquially called\u00a0“Chuang\u00a0Hua”, literally meaning”Window Flowers”. Paper cuts crafters cut paper with scissors\u00a0or knife. Paper cutting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,67],"tags":[1548,1547],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-review","category-company-activities","tag-window-paper","tag-window-paper-decoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31440,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/31440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}