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 ...

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 ...

A senior Chinese folklore expert has warned that the mass production of New Year couplets is undermining a unique Chinese art with a history of over 1,000 years. Professor Wu Bing'an, Honorary ...

Tonight on Apex Express, Justine Lee talks to award-winning filmmaker and Bay-Area native Felicia Lowe about her documentary Chinese Couplets. The film is an intimate family story that explores the ...

BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - 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 ...

GANZHOU CITY, East China: Over 600 students and teachers gathered together to write Spring Festival Couplets in Winqing Road Elementary School. Spring Festival Couplets are the most common and ...

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 ...

Bay Area filmmaker Felicia Lowe grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown, but her journey to understand her mother would extend far beyond the walls of their home and to the far reaches of the globe. “Chinese ...