The Chinese believed that these paper cuttings can scare away the evil spirits, so they can't get into your house through the windows. If you were in China for New Year's Day, you would see many kinds of paper cuttings on every family's windows.
Paper cuttings are one of the most popular folk arts in China.
They are properly framed or simply pasted onto the windows. Traditionally, they were only made of red paper. Most elderly women would make them just with a piece of red paper and a pair of scissors. They made them Paper cuttings are one of the most popular folk arts in China. The Chinese believed that these paper cuttings can scare away the evil spirits, so they can't get into your house through the windows.