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 ...

Chinese spring couplets are a Sinicized way to bring Christianity into the public sphere. Most researchers have focused on the text of these couplets, the vocabulary used, and the type of calligraphy.

Spring Festival Couplet & Poems Spring Festival Couplet (春è "), also known as Door Couplet, symbolizes the Chinese great expectation for the future.

On Jan 19 th the Chinese Program held a Spring Festival Couplets making events. Students learnt how to write Spring Festival couplets and made some decorations for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Many ...

Spring Festival couplets consist of two paper scrolls, inscribed with auspicious sayings, pasted vertically on either side of the door. A shorter horizontal scroll is often pasted across the top.

They stay on our door for the entire year. To document and preserve this rich tradition, a team of scholars supported by De La Salle University Manila and the Initiative for the Study of Asian ...

In addition to pasting couplets on both sides and above the main door, it is also common to hang calligraphic writing of the Chinese characters for "spring," "wealth," and "blessing." ...

Calligraphers write Chinese character "fu", or "blessing" in English, and Spring Festival couplets for citizens at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan.

A new cycle springs forth Period of hibernation ends as signs of life emerge once more to greet the coming year, Zhang Lei reports.

A calligraphy enthusiast writes a Spring Festival couplet for citizens at the Panlong Square in Pan'an County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 17, 2019. Chinese people usually paste Spring ...