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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Spring Couplets

"Each Chinese New Year, families in China decorate their front doors with poetic couplets of calligraphy written with fragrant India ink and expressing the feeling of life's renewal and the return of spring."
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Posted by Gerky at 4:13 PM
Labels: Art, Evidences of Learning, Holidays

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