Foreign Residents Learn to Write Spring Festival Couplets

 

A Canadian woman Lin Keke (her Chinese name) writing the best wishes for the coming

Spring Festival under the direction of the teacher

 

The couplets read: Beautiful views of mountains and waters,

prosperity prevails in lunar New Year.

 

The calligraphers from Huxi Painting & Calligraphy Association in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) recently held a special class to teach local residents to write Spring Festival couplets and a dozen of foreign residents from the Philippines and Canada were also among the audience.

 

Originally published on Suzhou Daily
February 3, 2010