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SC judge cites couplets to emphasise right to shelter
1 month, 1 week ago

SC judge cites couplets to emphasise right to shelter

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge B.R Gavai on Wednesday cited a couplet of famous Hindi poet 'Pradeep' to highlight that every person wishes to have his own home and does not want this dream to be shattered ever. "Apna ghar ho, apna aangan ho, is khawab mein har koi jeeta hai; Insaan ke dil ki ye chahat hai ki ek …

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Ranjit Hoskote: “Mir is very much our contemporary – a wounded sensibility”
3 months, 1 week ago

Ranjit Hoskote: “Mir is very much our contemporary – a wounded sensibility”

Hindustan Times  

What circumstances enabled the publication of this book now? In my introduction, I argue that Mir’s poetry – and indeed his language – was richly nourished by his multilingualism. A number of the poems in my selection demonstrate Mir’s linguistic diversity – especially poems in which he deliberately sets up a collision between elegant Persian forms and robust Khari Boli …

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Tamil Nadu Governor stirs hornet’s nest again
7 months ago

Tamil Nadu Governor stirs hornet’s nest again

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Governor R N Ravi has stirred the hornet’s nest once again by sending out invitations for a ‘Thiruvalluvar Thirunaal Vizha’ to be held at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai on Friday with a photograph of the revered Tamil poet savant dressed in saffron attire. While it is not clear as to why the Raj Bhavan is organizing a festival …

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Thiruvalluvar statue adorns public park at Montmagny in France
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Thiruvalluvar statue adorns public park at Montmagny in France

The Hindu  

A new adornment at the public park in Montmagny, a Parisian suburb in France, is a pedestal-mounted statue of the Tamil poet-philosopher Thiruvalluvar, whose “Thirukkural” couplets continue to be in currency for their inherent wisdom and time-transcending relevance. The statue was sculpted from a 300-kg mass of bronze in Mamallapuram on the commission of the Thiruvalluvar Académie des Arts en …

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Spring Festival couplets written by Yuan Chengyi
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Spring Festival couplets written by Yuan Chengyi

China Daily  

Spring Festival couplets written by Yuan Chengyi Spring Festival couplets are an essential part of Chinese New Year’s celebrations. Written on red paper, Spring Festival couplets combine Chinese poetic and calligraphic art and convey people’s best wishes for the new year. Pu’er city in Yunnan province held a "Search for the Most Beautiful Spring Festival Couplets" event on Jan 22. …

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Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction

China Daily  

Jingzhou Museum invites visitors to explore dragon-related elements in its collections on display during this year's Spring Festival. DENG ZHANGYU/CHINA DAILY Actors clad in traditional costume greet visitors as Spring Festival sees culture take to the streets, Deng Zhangyu reports. On Lunar New Year's Eve, usually a time of family reunions around the dining table, a city wall built more …

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Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction

China Daily  

Jingzhou Museum invites visitors to explore dragon-related elements in its collections on display during this year's Spring Festival. DENG ZHANGYU/CHINA DAILY Actors clad in traditional costume greet visitors as Spring Festival sees culture take to the streets, Deng Zhangyu reports. On Lunar New Year's Eve, usually a time of family reunions around the dining table, a city wall built more …

Spring Festival Jingzhou
Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction

China Daily  

Jingzhou Museum invites visitors to explore dragon-related elements in its collections on display during this year's Spring Festival. DENG ZHANGYU/CHINA DAILY Actors clad in traditional costume greet visitors as Spring Festival sees culture take to the streets, Deng Zhangyu reports. On Lunar New Year's Eve, usually a time of family reunions around the dining table, a city wall built more …

Spring Festival Jingzhou
Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Jingzhou turns history into modern attraction

China Daily  

Jingzhou Museum invites visitors to explore dragon-related elements in its collections on display during this year's Spring Festival. DENG ZHANGYU/CHINA DAILY Actors clad in traditional costume greet visitors as Spring Festival sees culture take to the streets, Deng Zhangyu reports. On Lunar New Year's Eve, usually a time of family reunions around the dining table, a city wall built more …

Spring Festival Jingzhou
Jinan holds Spring Festival celebration in Spanish city
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Jinan holds Spring Festival celebration in Spanish city

China Daily  

Residents of Murcia, Spain pose for a group photo with Spring Festival couplets and other decorations. Jinan organized a Spring Festival celebration event in Murcia, Spain on Feb 10, inviting local residents to paste Spring Festival couplets and write the Chinese character fu. In addition to the Spring Festival decorations, Jinan photos and window paper-cuttings were also given out as …

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Jinan holds Spring Festival celebration in Spanish city
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Jinan holds Spring Festival celebration in Spanish city

China Daily  

Residents of Murcia, Spain pose for a group photo with Spring Festival couplets and other decorations. Jinan organized a Spring Festival celebration event in Murcia, Spain on Feb 10, inviting local residents to paste Spring Festival couplets and write the Chinese character fu. In addition to the Spring Festival decorations, Jinan photos and window paper-cuttings were also given out as …

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Traditional red paper industry thrives
10 months ago

Traditional red paper industry thrives

China Daily  

Red paper products such as couplets and paper squares bearing the Chinese character fu, which symbolizes good fortune, used during the Lunar New Year have driven the development of a town in Shandong province as villagers integrate tradition with innovation. People in villages in the town of Xiazhuang in Gaomi produced 8,000 metric tons of red paper products last year …

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Spring Festival celebration held in Qingdao's German sister city
10 months ago

Spring Festival celebration held in Qingdao's German sister city

China Daily  

A Spring Festival celebration was held in Regensburg, Germany on Feb 10, aiming to help the residents of the city, which is Qingdao's sister city, gain a better understanding of Spring Festival culture, learn more about Qingdao, and expand Qingdao's influence in German sister cities. Attendees learned how to write the Chinese character fu using calligraphy, expressed their hopes for …

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Open-air markets bolster Beijing's street vending economy
10 months, 1 week ago

Open-air markets bolster Beijing's street vending economy

China Daily  

Spring Festival decorations such as lanterns and couplets are sold at the Shahe Market on Jan 7. WEI XIAOHAO/CHINA DAILY Guo Liping, 50, has been regularly visiting the Shahe Market in Beijing's Changping district for a decade. The market is so popular among both Changping's residents and visitors from other districts that shoppers jostle for elbowroom on normal days, and …

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Spring Festival celebrations held in Guilin's parks
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Spring Festival celebrations held in Guilin's parks

China Daily  

On Feb 7, in preparation for the upcoming Spring Festival, major parks in Guilin launched a series of diverse and entertaining activities, offering up a rich and colorful holiday feast. Zizhou Park is hosting the 2024 Guilin Spring Festival Tulip Flower Exhibition, showcasing approximately 190,000 pots of various flowers, including about 120,000 pots of tulips and a total of 50 …

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Spring Festival celebrations held in Guilin's parks
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Spring Festival celebrations held in Guilin's parks

China Daily  

On Feb 7, in preparation for the upcoming Spring Festival, major parks in Guilin launched a series of diverse and entertaining activities, offering up a rich and colorful holiday feast. Zizhou Park is hosting the 2024 Guilin Spring Festival Tulip Flower Exhibition, showcasing approximately 190,000 pots of various flowers, including about 120,000 pots of tulips and a total of 50 …

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【International Students Experience Chinese New Year】Episode 4：Writing Spring Festival couplets and cutting window paper-cut
10 months, 2 weeks ago

【International Students Experience Chinese New Year】Episode 4：Writing Spring Festival couplets and cutting window paper-cut

China Daily  

点击图片观看视频 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. 要确定上联在左边还是右边，得先看横批怎么写。 To determine whether the upper scroll should be on the left or right, you need to look at how the horizontal scroll is written. 除了贴春联外，中国人还很喜欢在窗户和玻璃门上贴窗花，象征着健康和兴旺，也更能增加喜庆的气氛。 In addition to pasting couplets, Chinese people also like to paste window …

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Youngsters get a close look at the rich tapestry of Chinese traditions
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Youngsters get a close look at the rich tapestry of Chinese traditions

China Daily  

Children and parents learn how to make Chinese New Year decorations. The China Soong Ching Ling Science and Culture Center for Young People hosted a vibrant cultural activity on Feb 4, bringing together 64 families from 15 countries to celebrate the Chinese New Year through immersive traditional workshops. The participants engaged in hands-on experiences, creating red couplets, weaving Chinese knots, …

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Youngsters get a close look at the rich tapestry of Chinese traditions
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Youngsters get a close look at the rich tapestry of Chinese traditions

China Daily  

Children and parents learn how to make Chinese New Year decorations. The China Soong Ching Ling Science and Culture Center for Young People hosted a vibrant cultural activity on Feb 4, bringing together 64 families from 15 countries to celebrate the Chinese New Year through immersive traditional workshops. The participants engaged in hands-on experiences, creating red couplets, weaving Chinese knots, …

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Sacred Black Soil Brick With ‘Aayats’ in Gold from Mecca On Its Way to Ayodhya for the Grand Mosque
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sacred Black Soil Brick With ‘Aayats’ in Gold from Mecca On Its Way to Ayodhya for the Grand Mosque

News 18  

A special ‘sacred’ brick, made of black soil and bearing ‘aayats’ in gold would be brought all the way from Mecca to lay the foundation of the Ayodhya mosque, to be named after Mohammed Bin Abdullah. Office-bearers of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation, the trust formed by the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board to oversee the construction of the mosque …

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Festive spirit abounds at Wenzhou Longwan International Airport
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Festive spirit abounds at Wenzhou Longwan International Airport

China Daily  

Calligraphers write Spring Festival couplets for travellers at the Wenzhou Longwan International Airport. Wenzhou Longwan International Airport recently welcomed a surge of passengers returning home for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Renowned calligraphers from Wenzhou's Longwan district were on hand at Terminal 2, creating auspicious "福" characters and Spring Festival couplets to be gifted to travelers. During the 40-day Spring …

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International students embrace Chinese New Year traditions
10 months, 3 weeks ago

International students embrace Chinese New Year traditions

China Daily  

International students at Jiangsu University's Overseas Education College participated in various activities at the school's 2024 Spring Festival Party on Jan 21, including writing Spring Festival couplets, making dumplings, and paper cutting. International students at Jiangsu University's Overseas Education College came together on Jan 21 for the school's 2024 Spring Festival Party to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon. …

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Items of good luck, fortune selling like hotcakes
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Items of good luck, fortune selling like hotcakes

China Daily  

A Chinese dragon made of balloons is placed at a shopping mall in Rugao, Jiangsu province, in January, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year. As Chinese New Year draws near, young Chinese consumers have been purchasing auspicious products that satisfy an emotional need for good luck and fortune, with the trend fueling business growth for manufacturers of small items. …

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International students embrace Chinese New Year traditions
10 months, 3 weeks ago

International students embrace Chinese New Year traditions

China Daily  

International students at Jiangsu University's Overseas Education College participated in various activities at the school's 2024 Spring Festival Party on Jan 21, including writing Spring Festival couplets, making dumplings, and paper cutting. International students at Jiangsu University's Overseas Education College came together on Jan 21 for the school's 2024 Spring Festival Party to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon. …

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