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 ...
A few days before the Lunar New Year, many people of Chinese descent hang sentences of poetry on the door of their home. This is an ancient and beautiful tradition through which Chinese people express ...
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 ...
Firecrackers, lion dances and fancy dinners are not the only ways in which the Chinese people celebrate their Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival. A long, but gradually disappearing tradition is to ...
People watch fireworks during Lantern Festival in Yantai, Shandong province. JI TIANSHENG/FOR CHINA DAILY Every Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Zhaocheng wakes up early and prepares a big pot of paste.
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 ...