Spring Couplets - Spring couplets are traditionally written with black ink on red paper. They are hung in storefronts in the month before the New Year’s Day, and often stay up for two months.

中国人喜欢在春节时写春联，然后贴在大门的两侧。 Chinese people like writing Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival and pasting them on both sides of the door. 春联字数不多，都是寓意祝福吉祥的句子，用墨水或金漆写在长条的红纸上，包含上联、下联和横批。 Spring ...

Day 8, Couplets-pasting Day (Feb. 8, 2024) The Couplets-pasting Day is on the 29th day of the 12th lunar month, two days before Spring Festival. This year, it falls on Feb. 8. On this day ...

tiē chūn lián 贴春联 Post a spring couplet. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will post on their door a spring couplet written on red paper creating a happy and prosperous ...

From pasting spring couplets and hanging red lanterns to dragon dances and family feasts, these traditions continue to unite generations. Follow Xinhua's foreign reporter, Maria, on a journey to ...

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 ...

As the week-long Chinese Lunar New Year festivities begin Feb. 9, I would like to focus on the couplets of this season, named "spring couplets" (chunlian). Based on my observations in southern China, ...

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 ...

Two spring couplets hang on the Shin Kong Life Tower near Taipei Railway Station yesterday. They set the record for being the nation’s longest vertically placed spring couplets. Former president Tsai ...