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autumn in chinese garden
Canal Towns in South of the Yangtze, zhejiang province
huzhou, china by 梅大胖子
🦁️Forbidden City Imperial Guardian Lions
✏️The symbolism of the lions begins with their gender, one male, one female, reflective of the long Chinese Taoist tradition of the yin and the yang.
Both lions may be found to have a pearl in their mouths. Traditionally this was carved in such a fashion that it could move freely in the mouth of the sculpture, but was too big to escape through its teeth.
The two of them together should be sited in strict accordance with fengshui practice and theory. As you face the lions from outside, the male should be on the right, the female on the left, both looking outward in their scrutiny of the world beyond that which they guard.
by 香港雨夾雪轉晴
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豫园 (Yùyuán Gardens)
