2015年2月28日星期六

Chinese couplet

Chinatungsten is located in Xiamen, Fujian, China, which has been a company which celebrates very traditional Chinese festivals. Spring Festival has been the most important one, and it has taken long holiday from Feb. 16, to Feb. 26. Feb. 27 is the first day for Chinatungsten members to come back for working.


Chinese couplet is very popular in China homes, not only on the house doors, but also on the animal’s doors, etc. Chinatungsten has not put this couplet, but put on “Fu” on doors and windows. If for homes, they always put this character on the wall of hall.

Introduction of Chinese couplet from Wiki.

In Chinese poetry, a couplet (simplified Chinese: 对联; traditional Chinese: 對聯; pinyin: duìlián) is a pair of lines of poetry which adhere to certain rules (see below). Outside of poems, they are usually seen on the sides of doors leading to people's homes or as hanging scrolls in an interior. Although often called antithetical couplet, they can better be described as a written form of counterpoint. The two lines have a one-to-one correspondence in their metrical length, and each pair of characters must have certain corresponding properties. A couplet is ideally profound yet concise, using one character per word in the style of Classical Chinese. A special, widely seen type of couplet is the spring couplet (simplified Chinese: 春联; traditional Chinese: 春聯; pinyin:chūnlián), used as a New Year's decoration that expresses happy and hopeful thoughts for the coming year.

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