Monthly Photos March 2013 : Rhymed couplets written in Tay script

Photos taken by ILCAA staff and associates are posted here once a month; most of them are taken during their field research in Asia and Africa.
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The Tay in Dehong celebrate the Chinese New Year, and they often paste rhymed couplets written in Tay script beside their front doors. In these verses they express their expectations for prosperity. The first line (right) reads; “Commodities become abundant, piling up as high as mountains”, and the second line (left) “Money and silver flow in like water from myriad rivers”. （Laa: Mu Village，Mäng: Khön, Yunnan, China 中国雲南省芒市那目村）

11 NOV 2006
Laa: Mu Village，Mäng: Khön, Yunnan, China
Photograph by Christian DANIELS