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About Chinese New Year Spring Festival

This is Spring Festival at full volume — not the quiet brush-and-red-paper of doorway couplets, but the night the courtyard fills with glowing lanterns, firecracker smoke, and gold paper-cut zodiac animals pinned to every window. Built dark on purpose: a deep lacquer-black ground so red lanterns actually glow, gold leaf catches light, and sparks read as sparks. Everything is maximal, radially symmetric, and a little rowdy — round lantern shapes, scalloped 窗花 edges, inverted 福 medallions, and sprays of golden sparks. The palette is the trio every household knows: lantern red, imperial gold, and just enough jade for the auspicious green of new spring.

Learn more about the Chinese New Year Spring Festival style

Origin
Han Chinese cultural sphere — mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and diaspora
Era
Han-antiquity folk custom; modern festival visual language crystallized Ming–Qing (14th–19th c.), continuing today
Key figures
Ku Shulan 库淑兰 · Feng Jicai 冯骥才 · Yangliuqing 杨柳青 workshop · Taohuawu 桃花坞 workshop
Movements
年画 New Year woodblock prints · 剪纸 jianzhi paper-cutting · 灯彩 lantern arts · 民间美术 Chinese folk art

Chinese New Year Spring Festival design spec

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Typography

ZCOOL KuaiLeHeadings
Noto Sans SCBody
Noto Sans MonoMono
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