Year 2022 is the Year of the Tiger by the Chinese calendar, from 2022-02-01 to 2023-01-21. 

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is the most important Chinese holiday. It is defined as the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar. Unlike the New Year observed by those that use the Gregorian Calendar, which is based on a solar calendar, the Chinese New Year is based on a traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar whose dates indicate both the phase of the moon as well as the time of the solar year. In addition, a lunar month is around two days shorter than a solar month. As such, in order to "catch up" with the solar calendar, an extra month is inserted every few years. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

Typically, the celebration begins on the New Year's Eve and lasts for around 15 days through the middle of the first month. Before the celebration, people traditionally clean their houses thoroughly, and also display traditional New Year's decorations. This festivity is a time for family reunion, and is considered the most important part of the Chinese New Year celebration. People often visit relatives and friends, do some shopping, watch traditional Chinese New Year events, launch fireworks, and plan for the coming year. The celebration is sometimes accentuated with a religious ceremony given in honor of heaven, earth, the family's ancestors and other gods. In modern China, Chinese New Year is a celebrated public holiday, and working professionals usually enjoy 7 days of time off, including the weekend. After the family reunion and observation of certain traditions, some modern Chinese families may make use of the public holiday as an opportunity to visit tourist destinations.

According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the 27th day or 28th day of the 12th month, both urban and rural areas, each household must select a red couplets affixed to the door in order to increase the festive atmosphere. And the last day of the 12th month or on New Year's Eve, everyone in China is wathcing Spring Festival gala by CCTV.

The Story: Spring Festival couplets, also known as spring couplets, door couplets, and antithetical couplets, give off a happy and joyful atmosphere to the festival. Many households choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and place them on both sides of the front door. Before the Qin and Han Dynasty, the Chinese people would place charms made from peach wood on both sides of the front door before New Year’s Day. Peach wood charms are boards with the characters Shentu and Yulei written on each piece. According to legend, Shentu and Yulei are the names of ghost-hunting gods, so people used their names to scare away ghosts and evil spirits. This custom existed for more than a millennium until the Five Dynasties, when the gods' names in the peach wood boards were replaced with antithetical sentences. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty encouraged people to use antithetical couplets. After he established the capital in Jinling, he commanded all of his ministers, officials, and commoners to place antithetical couplets on their front doors before New Year’s Eve. In a discreet manner, Emperor Zhu went into town and inspected the couplets on the front doors. From then on, the custom of using Spring Festival couplets was formed.