What looks like an ordinary door at first sight carries a lot of symbols if we look a bit deeper.
The design on the door reflects the traditional view of the cosmos, with square earth and round heaven. This pattern is very popular in design in China.
Next to the door we see the Chinese character for Spring '春', upside down. Around Chinese New Year people paste Chinese characters for 'good fortune' or 'Spring' on red paper on the door to obtain a lot of good luck in the coming year. The Chinese character is pasted upside down because 'upside down' or ‘dao' '倒' in the same pronunciation 'dao' '到' also means 'to arrive'. Pasting the character upside down thus means 'good fortune arrives'.