Chinese Wedding Scroll Set (3 scrolls) - Velvet with gold embossing, the two Wedding Couplet Poem Scrolls size: 8" x 51" (WXF0)

Chinese Wedding Scroll Set (3 scrolls) - Velvet with gold embossing, the two Wedding Couplet Poem Scrolls size: 9.4" x 58.7" : Scroll on top reads "Knot Tied Forever" in Chinese phase. Scroll on the right of the top scroll reads "Golden Dragon and Colorful Phoenix tie knot in a happy match", scroll on the left side reads "Pearl and Jade in a Perfect Marriage" Dulian (Chinese couplets written on scrolls, etc. or a pair of scrolls containing a poetic couplet), also known as ying lian (pillar couplets) or dui zi (antithetical couplets), is a unique literary genre in China. Generally speaking, duilian can be classified into Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) couplets, wedding couplets, longevity couplets, elegiac couplets, decorative couplets, trade couplets, social couplets, and miscellaneous couplets including facetious or humorous couplets. Couplets can be long or short. The shortest one contains one or two characters, and the longest one several hundred characters, which can be seen on ancient Chinese architecture. The structure of the couplets can be zheng dui (parallel in meaning), fan dui (antithetical in meaning), liushui dui (same meaning expressed in two sentences, e.g. a couplet), and jijiu dui (a couplet made of two lines from different poets, etc.