The Sun, the Moon and the Stars
2021
Digital illustration
Chinese New Year, which is also called Lunar New year, is the most important period of time for Chinese people, everyone in the family will gather together and celebrate the beginning of a new year of the solar Chinese calendar. Not only you will see people in Hong Kong sharing blessing and joy with family during the days, you will also find celebrations and activities in countries such as South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia or even the UK or the US.
Just like mistletoe in Christmas, pumpkin in Halloween, every festival has its own distinctive decoration. In Chinese New year, Chinese people will put Fai Chun ("揮春", the Chinese New Year Couplets) onto the walls with handwriting or drawings about the Chinese Zodiac, good fortune wishes or blessings. Fai Chun is always in red which is a colour representing good fortune and good sign in Chinese culture.
For the series "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars", we tried to present to you a new Fai Chun style with different elements and features, including colours, materials, drawing style and so on. Below you will find the artworks and we have hidden some blessing inside!!