spring festival

春

節

ㄔㄨㄣㄐㄧㄝˊ chūn jié

Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.

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The lunar new year - the largest festival in the Chinese calendar, when families travel home and everything closes for days.

Before you commit

Choose with care春節 names a specific public holiday, the way Thanksgiving does. Worn permanently it reads as a date rather than as a sentiment.

Cultural noteThe older name is 過年, from the story of the beast 年 driven off by red and noise. That is why doors are red and firecrackers are lit.

At small sizesNine strokes beside thirteen. 春 holds up well small; 節 has the bamboo radical that closes up first.

Meaning

Spring Festival; the lunar new year.

The formal name of the holiday, used on calendars and in the news.

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What to do next

Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.

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