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, ...

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 ...

Because we are incarnate beings, our spirits receive meaning through our bodies and their physical senses. If we don’t see (or hear or taste or smell or feel) it, we don’t believe it. We don’t even ...

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 ...

Couplets perform different functions on diverse occasions. Some express good wishes for the New Year, others congratulate newly-weds, wish seniors well on their birthdays, or mourn the passing 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 ...

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 ...

Now the motion is even more organized and precise, even with the imperfect rhymes. Which rhyme scheme should you use? It depends on what you’re saying. If the lyric’s emotion deals with uncertainty or ...

Maggie Millner’s first book, “Couplets,” breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard. By Adrienne Raphel When you purchase an independently ...

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 ...