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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Villagers put spring couplets for sale in order in a shop in Beixiezhuang Village of Yuezhuang Town in Xinyuan County, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 14, 2013. As traditional Chinese Spring ...

Spring Festival couplets were unveiled at the Zhonghuamen Gate, part of the ancient city wall of Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 24, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] Fifteen meter-long ...

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 ...

Aerial photo taken on Feb. 6, 2018 shows the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province. Couplets with each approximately 15 meters high and 2 meters wide are hung on the ...