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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writing a couplet can be tough, But when you work with friends, it's not so rough. On Monday, NPR's Morning Edition asked listeners and readers to share poems about the teams in their lives — both on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professors of a certain age, start your engines! And students of a certain different age, start yours too. It’s time to begin daydreaming about the coming academic year. Not about grades and exams and ...