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Winning Works of Couplet Calligraphy

The award-winning works of calligraphy of Couplets

Couplets, also known as couplets, are the treasures of traditional Chinese culture. It is a treasure of traditional Chinese culture. It is refined in its language, rigorous in its counterpoints, connected in its content, harmonious in its syllables and in its leveling, which makes it resonant and catchy to read; and in its visual form it is closely integrated with the art of calligraphy, with all the styles of its writing, and its chapters and layouts are compatible with each other up and down and echoing each other from left to right, and it has a long history and long time ago.

To the Five Dynasties, according to the "Song Shi - Shi Jia - Xishu Meng is": the Lord of the latter Shu Meng Chang "every year except, ordered the bachelor for the words, lifting the peach symbols placed in the bedchamber door left and right."

Peach symbols gradually became popular, until the Song Dynasty, still known as "peach symbols", to the early Ming Dynasty, began to produce the word Spring Festival couplets.

The earliest surviving calligraphic works of couplets were only capped in the late Ming Dynasty. To the Qing Dynasty, the style of book couplets are gradually emerging. Early style of calligraphy is still the legacy of the Ming Dynasty, to the Kangxi Dynasty, because the emperor preferred Dong Qichang calligraphy, Dong's flowing style of calligraphy beauty, bringing a strong visual impact. Learning from Dong became the fashion of the times; to the Qianjia period and the prevalence of elegant and graceful Zhao style, Weng Fangzang, Liu Yong, Liang Tongshu, Wang Wenzhi famous in the world, the next to lead the world of calligraphy, a spectacular.