Home decor magazine

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

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The wedding decorations also include some calligraphy phrases such as "Get old together with white hair", "get along for a hundred years", "happy and harmony". Those works should be on the top of windows or doors of the new couple's home.

Today, Chinese calligraphy art works are also appear in cars. In China, a lot of cars are decorated with some good Chinese phrase such as "safe on the way" in Chinese calligraphy.

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.

Most Chinese houses have a courtyard. There are a big door at the gate. On the top of the door, there should be some Chinese calligraphy works. Even poor people in China will have Chinese calligraphy works there. If the Chinese characters there were some print, the owner of the house will be regarded as an idiot.

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.

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Last modified: Tuesday October 18, 2005.