Call for submissions: The China Laundry Committee invites you to write Spring Festival couplets!
Release Time:
2019-01-11 20:10
Source:
China Laundry Information Center
Thousands of factories and shops shine brightly; may the old look be replaced with a new face. Spring couplets are the most heartfelt confession of life by Chinese people during the New Year! These short phrases contain beautiful wishes for the family and country! As the New Year approaches, the China Laundry Committee is inviting laundry industry enthusiasts who love life to submit original spring couplets and calligraphy works related to the laundry industry. This event expresses the laundry people's passion for the industry and their longing for a better life, while sending the best New Year wishes to laundry colleagues nationwide and expressing hopes for a wonderful new year in the laundry industry. Talented you, come and join!
Submission Requirements:
1. The content of the spring couplets must be original, centered on the laundry industry, positive, and auspicious.
2. Works can be submitted by clicking "Write a comment" at the end of the article; calligraphy works can be sent via WeChat photos or emailed to chinalaundry@vip.163.com.
3. Please indicate the author's name and organization when submitting.
4. Deadline: February 4, 2019, Chinese New Year's Eve.
This spring couplet collection will be judged by experts and audience voting to select outstanding spring couplets and calligraphy works, with exquisite gifts awarded!
Review of selected original spring couplets from previous years:






The spring couplets we have been familiar with since childhood
The style is generally like this:

However, this year
These spring couplets went viral
1. The spring couplets of top students, which we don't understand

This is the masterpiece of Bian Zheng, a 2017 Environmental Engineering student at Nanjing Forestry University.
He cleverly used the chemical periodic table to write this homophonic couplet.
The "translation" is as follows↓↓↓
Ag Zn Na F Ga Hf Mg (Welcoming the new year, bringing blessings, family harmony and beauty)

Re Sg Tc Au As Sc Ti (Bringing joy, gaining gold, health and peace)
Students studying traditional Chinese medicine
Contributed the "He Qi Sheng Chai" as a "magical horizontal inscription"
Spring couplets exclusive to music students

Look like this
This also needs a "translation"

Upper line: All prosper, all prosper, all all prosper
Lower line: Prosper now, prosper now, prosper prosper now
Horizontal inscription: Prosper now all prosper
2. New function of spring couplets: "Mutual teasing"!
Students from the 2017 Mechanical Engineering Department at Zhicheng College, Fuzhou University, posted two "mutually teasing" spring couplets outside their dormitory doors.
Dorm 413 posted the upper line: Friends walk together for life; lower line: Whoever gets out of singlehood first is a dog; horizontal inscription: Single aristocrat.
Opposite dorm 414 responded sharply with: Upper line: I can get out of singlehood, dog or not; lower line: Who is your good friend; horizontal inscription: Big dog food provider.
3. The way "firefighter uncles" open spring couplets 
Also, the firefighters who are worried about promoting fire safety
Firefighter uncles
Henan Fire Brigade released a set of spring couplets
Each one is very powerful
Actually, such "quirky" spring couplets



Have been many in recent years
For example, these "customized" spring couplets written with professional terms
Home appliance repair workers
Upper line: Knives, pliers, screwdrivers
Lower line: Soldering iron, rosin, solder wire
Horizontal inscription: Home appliance repair
Forum editors
Upper line: Often flood the forum to relieve worries
Lower line: Occasionally throw bricks when bored
Horizontal inscription: Random four characters
Doctors
Upper line: Bone forceps, lancet, great skill without craft, skillful hands and benevolent heart
Lower line: Steady and trustworthy, heavy sword without edge, healing the world
Horizontal inscription: Cultivating both inside and out
There are also various high-end and classy English spring couplets
Upper line: "EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, HAVE FUN EVERYDAY!" (Eat well, sleep well, be happy every day)

Lower line: "STUDY HARD, WORK HARD, MAKE MONEY EVERYDAY!" (Study well, work well, make money every day)
Horizontal inscription: "LUCKY" (Good luck)
To welcome the large number of Chinese tourists entering during the Spring Festival, an Australian medical beauty
Hospital's two beautiful "nurses" bought red rice paper and brushes and carefully wrote spring couplets stroke by stroke in Chinese characters.
They said that because they heard Chinese guests mention "Jing Ye Fu," "He Xie Fu," and "Sao Wu Fu" and found it interesting, they imitated and wrote them, also providing English

translations — LOVE PEACE HOPE, which can be said to be a "perfect blend of Chinese and Western cultures."
For thousands of years,
From brush writing
To colored paper printing,
The form of spring couplets has continuously evolved.
春联的形式不断演变
From auspicious phrases and New Year greetings
to humorous teasing
The content of Spring Festival couplets
is also "keeping up with the times"
However
the essence remains unchanged
The flavor of the New Year
is an eternal treasure deep in the bones of the Chinese people
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