Object name: Pair of spring couplets / Culture or time period: Chinese / Function: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Pair of spring couplets, accession number 9-21360a,b, described as Pair of spring couplets. Black ink on red paper. “May a thousand good omens gather like clouds, and a hundred kinds of happiness combine here; May you smoothly enter into a new spring and everything follow your heart’s (desire).” Strips 7 x 55.5 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Pair of spring couplets, accession number 9-21352, described as Pair of spring couplets. On blue. Single character for good luck on bottom, purple tinted. Two columns of characters on top. 15 cm bottom character and 89 cm long couplets. Overall width 15 cm. Legend: “Careful to the end, and compliant throughout, (we observe) the ritual of the three years (of mourning). We pursue distant memories and recall constantly with all our heart.