Spring Festival Couplet (春联), also known as Door Couplet, symbolizes the Chinese great expectation for the future. It is one of Spring Festival Mascots and a special literary form of Chinese ...

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 antithetical ...

中国人喜欢在春节时写春联，然后贴在大门的两侧。 Chinese people like writing Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival and pasting them on both sides of the door. 春联字数不多，都是寓意祝福吉祥的句子，用墨水或金漆写在长条的红纸上，包含上联、下联和横批。 Spring ...

As residents across China are handwriting festive couplets and the character fu (fortune) to ring in the Chinese New Year, new content and creative designs have breathed new life into the tradition as ...

Mirza Ghalib once said this about Meer Taqi Meer, another renowned poet of his time: “Reekhta kay tumhi ustaad nahi ho Ghalib, Kehte hain agle zamane me koi Mir bhi tha. “(You are not the only master ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...