Write a Chinese couplet as part of the Spring Festival celebration.
Write a Chinese couplet as part of the Spring Festival celebration.
A couplet refers to two complementary poetic lines adhering to certain rules. They are often used to decorate doors and walls during Spring Festival to help express hope and happiness for the coming year.
We will winning couplets and publish here.There will be English and Chinese versions. Don’t worry about the Chinese. We’ll translate! Winners will get a CCTV America coffee mug or a New Year’s Ice Cream Scoop!!
DEADLINE: Chinese New Year Day February 8th
E-MAIL YOUR POETIC COUPLET TO CHINESE COUPLETS at Digital.Media@cgtnamerica.com
Your couplet should follow at least two of these rules.
Length: The couplet has two equal-length lines. The number of characters/words in each line can be from four to seven or more.
Rhyme: Last word of each line is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound)
Corresponding characters/words have the same lexical category (noun-noun, verb-verb, etc.).
Many don’t follow this very closely, but It will be a plus if you can.
Below see some of the entries SO FAR.
The wind and the rain
The friend and good pain
如风沐雨
好友知己
By Giovanni Lostumbo
Lady liberty, American immigration
Diversity matters,national legislation
女性独立，移民自由
立法保护，文化多元
By Gabriel Tolliver
Flitting iridescence
Welcome opalescence
Dragonfly
龙携七彩飞虹至
新年吉瑞迎入门
好运来
By LisaRose
