You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

English language couplets have become a new and stylish way among Chinese young people to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival. On China's biggest consumer online shopping platform Taobao, there are ...

As the Lunar New Year approaches, many Chinese families clean the front door of their home and hang poetry around it. This is a rich and age-old Chinese tradition, both cultural and religious. Chinese ...

Poetic couplet is two successive rhyming lines in poetry. Chinese couplets known as duilian or "antithetical couplets" may be seen on doorways in Chinese communities worldwide. Couplets displayed as ...

Beijing Folk Custom Museum hosted a traditional event on Friday, known as Xiaonian or Little New Year in Chinese, to kick off the countdown to the Chinese Lunar New Year. Calligraphers were invited to ...

Couplets perform different functions on diverse occasions. Some express good wishes for the New Year, others congratulate newly-weds, wish seniors well on their birthdays, or mourn the passing and ...

A popular tradition during the lunar new year is to, before settling down to the new year’s eve feast, put up chuanlian — New Year’s couplets — on the front door or windows, and inside the house. The ...

A woman and her daughter display a Spring Festival couplet they received at a couplets writing activity in Yongchuan District, southwest China's Chongqing, Jan. 16, 2023.(Photo: Xinhua) Kids look on ...