An exhibition of Spring Festival couplets that opened Tuesday at the National Museum of China in Beijing will run through Feb 12.

A platform door at the Yonghegong station on Beijing's subway line 5 is decorated with a pair of Spring Festival scrolls, Saturday, February 2, 2008. [Photo: Beijing Evening News] The Chinese ...

Spring Festival couplets consist of two paper scrolls, inscribed with lines of poetry or auspicious sayings, pasted vertically on both sides of a door. [Photo/Baotou Daily] ...

Spring Festival Couplet (春è "), 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 ...

It is said that spring couplets originated from "peach wood charms," door gods painted on wood charms in earlier times. During the Five Dynasties (907-960), the Emperor Meng Chang inscribed an ...

Among these rituals, one historically-practiced and valued cultural practice is writing poems. With brushes filled in black ink, literates handwrote two rhyming and propitious phrases known as spring ...

On the morning of New Year’s Eve, people sweep the tombs of their ancestors, then return home. When they finish hanging Spring Festival couplets and red lanterns, it’s time for the big family ...

The Spring Festival celebrations normally start on the Chinese New Year’s Eve. Families stay up watching the annual National Spring Festival Gala until midnight and count down for the New Year. In the ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- A chance to see part of Door County's maritime history is approaching. The 30th Spring Lighthouse Festival kicks off on Friday. For more than 140 years, the Sturgeon Bay ...

Click the photo and watch the video. BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Hanging Spring Festival Couplets, or Chunlian in Chinese, on doors and walls is a common and important custom when celebrating Chinese ...

These funny couplets have encouraged many people to continue the Spring Festival tradition of hanging couplets, scrolls and sticking gate-god pictures.

The Spring Festival is a Chinese festival, and it’s a festival for the world, from being listed as a United Nations floating holiday to be inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the ...