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Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China bustlingwith noise and excitement. During the Spring Festival, everything was in a stateof preparedness for every family. About ten days before the festival, peoplebegan busy preparing special purchases, including new clothes and shoes for thechildren to embrace the new year. What’s more, people begin decorating theirrooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity, which include SpringFestival couplets on red paper pasted on the door panels, red paper-cuttings onwindow glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings onthe wall, as well as red lanterns or the Chinese character ‘Fu’ (meaningblessing or happiness) on the front door. The Chinese character ‘Fu’ can bepasted normally or upside down, signifying good futune because in Chinese the"reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as"fudaole."