The traditional Chinese couplet is an artistic combination of poetry and calligraphy. A couplet, as the Chinese – yinglian or duilian – for this duo implies, is composed of a pair (fu) of antithetical ...
Spring Festival Couplet (春è "), also known as Door Couplet, symbolizes the Chinese great expectation for the future. It is one of Spring Festival Mascots and a special literary form of Chinese ...
THE piece that appeared last week in these columns stirred a good deal of interest (‘Poetry that became proverbial’, Dawn, April 18, 2011). Notwithstanding the positive feedback that I have had about ...
PESHAWAR: While painting a mural of Allama Iqbal, the national poet in perpetuity, in Peshawar, painter Siyar Khan unknowingly added his name to the list of people to whom another poet Syed Sadiq ...