Our Chinese New Year Decorations: Chinese Paper Cuttings & Couplets!

Chinese Couplets & Paper Cuttings: Our Decorations for Chinese New Year! Watch more Chinese New Year content from me here: https://bit.ly/36PtRl4

In this video I look deeper into the process of making Chinese New Year decorations, and more specifically Chinese Paper Cutting and Chinese New Year Couplets.

I first visit my mother-in-law's friend, Teacher Jiao, who has been doing paper cutting for over five years. She shows us her work and also teaches me a little bit. In the end, we leave with some beautiful pieces, among them two round red decorations to paste on our windows for CNY.

Then I'm back home, filming my husband writing calligraphy - black ink on red paper. These are couplets, and are pasted on the door frames during the celebrations. My husband also explains the meaning of them (in his own words haha).

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