Lunar New Year's greetings, part 2
You can't really have a traditional Lunar New Year's celebration without posting spring couplets, as witness here.
In recent years, though, these "spring couplets" (chūnlián 春聯 / 春联) — a special type of "antithetical couplet" (duìlián 對聯 / 对联) — have morphed into all sorts of different forms and formats, such as this set, which we studied back in February 2019 (see "Selected readings" below):
I leave it to you to read for yourself.
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