Shooting Tiger: Solving riddles on lanterns, also known as lighted tigers, is closely related to Chinese characters. In the old days, the complex and diverse answers of shooting tigers were mostly the original sentences in the four books and five classics; One is street lantern riddles, which are very popular. Tiger hunting is an important activity in the Lantern Festival.
Combination words: People in China often combine some auspicious phrases into one word to pray for good luck. The common combination words are "lucky money into treasure" and "double happiness".
Homophonic characters: People in China like to use homophonic characters to express good luck. For example, bat homophonic means happiness, and beast homophonic means longevity.
Cold Relief Map of September 9th: A folk custom in northern China. In the season of counting nine every year, nine double-hook characters "weeping willows in front of the court, cherishing the spring breeze" are written. These nine words are nine strokes each. From the solstice of winter, fill a stroke with colors every day according to the weather, and count to nine to complete the whole map.
Flower-and-bird characters: Some folk artists spell Chinese characters with some flower-and-bird patterns. At close range, the details are some flower-and-bird paintings, and at a distance, it is a word. This art form of combining calligraphy and painting is called flower-and-bird character, which is a colorful combination of flower-and-bird-insect-fish calligraphy. In China, it can only be seen at temple fairs and some holiday parties during the Spring Festival. Flower and bird figures have also become street art in western countries such as Britain and the United States. Most of the early flower-and-bird calligraphy and painting were written with auspicious words to pray for good luck. Now the bird calligraphy and painting seen at the temple fair mainly writes the customer's name, and the buyer's purpose has gradually changed from praying for good luck to seeking novelty.