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遇 (Yu, "encounter") gives you one couplet of classical Chinese poetry for the moment you are in, set vertically on a sheet of rice paper. Which line you meet is half up to heaven. The poems are in Chinese, set in Traditional characters.

Android

On your home screen: a small slip of rice paper, or no paper at all, the characters resting on your own wallpaper; or the whole home screen laid with rice paper. The app is free; the widget and the wallpaper are bought once, and are yours from then on.

The Yu widget on an Android home screen: a slip of rice paper with one couplet of Chinese poetry in vertical lines, over a wallpaper of boulders under a golden evening sky The same wallpaper with the paper taken away: white characters resting directly on the dark boulders The same widget in black ink, set on the golden sky at the upper right

Get it on Google Play.

Computer

A Chrome extension: every new tab opens on a sheet of rice paper and one couplet. Free, and it asks for no browser permissions.

A Chrome new tab turned into a sheet of rice paper, with one couplet by Du Mu in vertical lines: 停車坐愛楓林晚，霜葉紅於二月花

Add it from the Chrome Web Store.

Or nothing to install

The web version works right here: back to the poem.

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