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Sell, buy English couplets to have a good, good year. By Zou Shuo (China Daily) Updated: 2018-02-13 . ... ($4), almost double the price of the Chinese couplets.
The traditional Chinese couplet is an artistic combination of poetry and calligraphy. A couplet, as the Chinese – yinglian or duilian – for this duo implies, is composed of a pair (fu) of ...
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - English language couplets have become a new and stylish way among Chinese young people to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival. Read more at ...
"Foreigners living in China also buy the English couplets to celebrate the festival, but my English is not good enough to talk with them," said the 33-year-old Beijinger.
Based on my observations in southern China, Chinese Christians rely on spring couplets to materialize their religious commitment. Despite the political suspicions they face, churchgoers and their ...
A senior Chinese folklore expert has warned that the mass production of New Year couplets is undermining a unique Chinese art with a history of over 1,000 years. Professor Wu Bing'an, Honorary ...
Jiang, 86, wrote a calligraphy couplet on Thursday to mark the anniversary of his alma mater, Yangzhou Middle School, and to highlight contributions that the school has made in the nation's ...
A villager shows Chinese character Fu, or blessing in English, in Koujiaying Village of Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 22, 2019. People across China have the ...
This is an ancient and beautiful tradition through which Chinese people express wishes for the year to come. We name these lines of poetry written on red paper - chunlian or Spring Couplets. They are ...
Nicolas Chapuis, a former ambassador to China who is translating Du Fu’s complete works into French, examines the meaning of one particular couplet of the poem.