🏮Spring Lines & Red Envelopes🧧: Lunar New Year Community Workshop🥢 | CODE

​✨ Learn the tradition of writing Duilian (Spring Festival couplets), try your hand at Chinese characters, and share wishes in your own language. You can also send a secret or supportive message through our Hongbao (red‑envelope) delivery station. 🧧

​Celebrate our international community by writing blessings in your native language—these multilingual duilian will be used to decorate the CODE campus as we get ready for our Lunar New Year celebration the next day!

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​🖋 Mini‑Intro to Duilian (Spring Festival Couplets)

​Duilian are pairs of red banners traditionally placed on both sides of a doorway during the Lunar New Year. They’re handwritten in calligraphy and express hopes for good fortune, happiness, and renewal. They’re usually put up just before the new year begins as part of the home‑decorating rituals of Spring Festival, along with the character 福 (fu, “fortune”).

​🧧 Mini‑Intro to Hongbao (Red Envelopes)

​Hongbao—also called red envelopes—are small red packets traditionally filled with money and given during Lunar New Year and other celebrations. The red color symbolizes good luck and is believed to ward off bad spirits. The gesture represents sharing blessings, strengthening bonds, and wishing others prosperity in the year ahead.