First year wedding anniversary gift

Chinese people sometimes like to give expensive first year wedding anniversary gifts. Chinese people think the more expensive first year wedding anniversary gift they give, the more they care. That's actually not a good habit. A great first year wedding anniversary gift should be expressing your thought and not costing a fortune.

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Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

Chinese calligraphy are different from other calligraphy works. Chinese calligraphy is painted by special calligraphy paper (Xuan paper), special brush and special ink.

In the US, people usually should claim a gift if the value is higher than certain amount. The limit depends on location. Some place might be $50 and some place might be $20. That's a great regulation.

I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

As an art work, Chinese calligraphy carries the calligrapher's mood and thoughts. You can really feel how the calligraphy felt when he was painting the art work.During the 4000 years of Chinese history, Chinese calligraphy is the sole of Chinese culture.

Chinese calligraphy come from writing Chinese characters. The Chinese characters come from the painting.At the very beginning, people have an intuition about writing Chinese characters well.

I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

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