Library offers calligraphy treat for New Year

You can now spend Chinese New Year holiday practicing calligraphy by copying pages from one of the world's oldest and largest encyclopedias.

The National Library of China has just announced that parts from Yongle Dadian - the Great Encyclopedia of Yongle - are on display until March 2. And the public is invited to view and copy the works on display.

The encyclopedia was commissioned by Emperor Yongle in 1403. And thousands of scholars spent four years collecting nearly 8,000 kinds of books available at that time and compiled the 22,877-scroll, or 11,095-volume, encyclopedia.