You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Villagers put spring couplets for sale in order in a shop in Beixiezhuang Village of Yuezhuang Town in Xinyuan County, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 14, 2013. As traditional Chinese Spring ...

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 ...

Spring Festival couplets were unveiled at the Zhonghuamen Gate, part of the ancient city wall of Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 24, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] Fifteen meter-long ...

Aerial photo taken on Feb. 8, 2018 shows the Xuanwu Gate in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province. Couplets with each approximately 15 meters high and 2 meters wide are hung on the 12 ...

A woman and her daughter display a Spring Festival couplet they received at a couplets writing activity in Yongchuan District, southwest China's Chongqing, Jan. 16, 2023.(Photo: Xinhua) Kids look on ...

Professors of a certain age, start your engines! And students of a certain different age, start yours too. It’s time to begin daydreaming about the coming academic year. Not about grades and exams and ...