Southwestern home decor

Chinese calligraphy works have served as a southwestern home decoration idea for thousands of years. People use the art works to southwestern home decorate rooms. There usually are some Chinese calligraphy works hang on the wall to southwestern home decorate the homes.

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In China, most signboards are written in Chinese calligraphy. If a sign is not written in calligraphy, it give viewers an impression that the company or shop is not professional.

If there are no Chinese calligraphy, there will be no decoration in China.

On the wedding day, there should be some Chinese calligraphy characters such as "double happiness", "good fortune", "celebration". These calligraphy works should be on red paper since red means good fortune or luck.

Chinese calligraphy art works are also widely used to tombstones. In ancient China, tombstones are used to record the life of the owner. To have people after thousands of years to see the life of the owner, Chinese calligraphy works were carved into the stones.

For the relatives, the most closed relatives should have the symbol of celebration on both sides of the doors of the gate in their homes.

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Last modified: Tuesday October 18, 2005.