Chun lian is a special type of Duilian, or couplet. It is used only during the Chinese New Year as part of its celebration. While duilian is permanent, chunlian is a temporary decoration to be placed on the entrance of the house, somewhat akin to Halloween and Christmas decorations.
Typically, the chun lian writes an happy, hopeful, uplifting message about a better New Year to come. In olden times, thecouplets are written by calligraphers on red pieces of paper. Nowadays the service of the calligrapher is rarely needed as we can easily buy the printed ones which comes with thicker paper. Plus they have designs like the ones above. Actually, each pack has two strips. I took photographs of the same phrase.
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