Pearls, songs and seeds all part of modern-day university admission letters

A Shaanxi Normal University admission letter written in the traditional style. [Photo/Sina Weibo of People's Daily]

More than 20 former professors, alumni and teachers of Shaanxi Normal University wrote admission letters with Chinese calligraphy brushes to the university's freshmen in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. They wrote about 4,500 admission letters in 10 days.

Shaanxi Normal University is the only university producing calligraphy admission letters in China, keeping the tradition alive.