Huhu,you are welcome;-) i have some time these days,and I'd like to communicate with peole shows respect to any other culture. It took me 20years to learn Chinse ancient poetry, i'd like to share with you, and really thanks for your help with my outlines. Every Chinese character has a story behind, and they have something in common. When i have sometime,I will write to you about it later,to make it easy to remember. Cheer up!:-)

Oh wow, the story behind the couplet adds so much more depth and color. Thanks for taking the time to write a detailed background. This way is so much better as i will remember this for a long long time. I have just begun studying chinese paintings and chinese calligraphy, although i only know a few characters. I discovered that learning chinese characters by studying chinese calligraphy was a much more fun and interesting way.

huhu,thanks Renaissance Man,this sentence is famous for a Emperor of Qing Dynast，Qianlong. There's a story about this sentence.The emperor of Qianlong came to the Big Buddha Temple,so he got the first part of a Couplet,which is" 人过大佛寺寺佛大过人",and he was so Triumphantly that thought no one can give the last part of the couplet. But there was A smart Minister answered quickly, "客上天然居居然天上客"(ke shang tian ran ju, ju ran tian shang ke)which means,the guests went to Nature restaurant，unexpectedly to be the guest from the heaven. Here is the same situation " 上"can be used as Preposition or verb. And thank you for the website, I've taken a note. If you are interested in chinese ancient poetry i can write more on this,later. or you can contact with me by skype. I want to know if here is the same with english poetry writing. BTW, the pic was taken in Saipan last summer, with iphone. It very beautiful there. And thank you for your attention. I'd like to introuduce more about chinese poetry,it's the key to chinese culture,unfortunately now new generation know little about it, really big pity. And you are welcome any time,I will try to answer you ASAP. Elisa

Another question, the picture is beautiful, where was it taken?

Hi Elisa, really enjoyed the short but interesting note above. But why is the sentence famous, did a famous person come up with it? In english such structures of words or alphabets are called "palindromes". A palindromic sentence: "Rise to vote, Sir." A word as a palindrome: "madam" More at - http://www.rinkworks.com/words/palindromes.shtml