This is the pair for our whole family.

这是我们家春联。

The Legend of Why Spring Couplets Are Pasted.

3、么要贴春联传说。

The Spring Festival couplets depict vivid images and express good wishes in concise words.

春联形象生动，字简洁，寄托美好祝愿。

They decorate their houses with paper cuts, red lantern and Spring Festival couplets.

他们用剪纸、红灯笼和春联装饰房子。

The Spring Festival couplets consist of a pair of verses and a four-character horizontal scroll.

春联由一对诗句和一个四字横联组成。

The horizontal scroll that highlights the theme of the Spring Festival couplets is the Icing on the cake.

突出春联主题横画是上添花。

In the Little New Year, old couplets and paper-cuts from the previous Spring Festival are taken down, and new window decorations, New Year's posters, and auspicious decorations are pasted up.

过小年时，要把去年春节贴春联和窗花取下，贴上新窗花，年画，和各种大吉大利装饰品。

People often worship the Kitchen God, clean their houses, do their shopping, and put up Spring Festival couplets(blessing words posted on door frames) until New Year's Eve on the lunar calendar.

人们会开始祭灶神，大扫，买年货，贴春联等，一直忙碌到农历十二月三十。

It is recorded that the origin of spring couplets can be dated back to 1,000 years ago when people hung taofu (written charms on peach wood) on doors.

据记载，春联起源可以追溯到1000年前，当时人们在门上挂桃符。

The verses on the Spring Festival couplets reflect the characteristics of the traditional chinese poetry, and the two lines have the same number of words and related the content.

春联诗句体现了中国传统诗歌特点，两行字数相同， 内容相关。

Even the fish on the plate expresses a hope for nian nian you yu-yu means both " fish" and " plenty" in Chinese- " May you get more than you wish for every year" .

刚到家，他们就发现父母早就翘首以待了。家中己经这个喜庆场合特别布置了一番。从窗上贴得整整 齐齐剪纸，到门上春联，再到墙上年画，无不象征养欢乐、吉祥和幸福。就连盘中那条鱼也表达 了对年年有余企盼—— 在汉语中“鱼''“余”谐音一一祝愿每年收获都能多于期望。