. Guide leaflet. A SYMBOL OF LMMOUTALITV Highly conventionalized butterflycarved from white jade to a pair of fishes orcarp, whereas one carpoften stands for poweror literary eminence.(hang Tao-ling, whomay be considered theactual founder of mod-ern Taoism, is repre-sented as riding on atiger under whose paware crushed the fivevenomous creatures: theUzard, snake, spider, toad, and these five are represented to-gether in carved jade in an amulet knownas the Five Poisons. When Buddhism was introduced intoChina from India Often a dragonholds or supports around object like apea
. Guide leaflet. A SYMBOL OF LMMOUTALITV Highly conventionalized butterflycarved from white jade to a pair of fishes orcarp, whereas one carpoften stands for poweror literary eminence.(hang Tao-ling, whomay be considered theactual founder of mod-ern Taoism, is repre-sented as riding on atiger under whose paware crushed the fivevenomous creatures: theUzard, snake, spider, toad, and these five are represented to-gether in carved jade in an amulet knownas the Five Poisons. When Buddhism was introduced intoChina from India Often a dragonholds or supports around object like apearl, which reallyrepresents the sun,phototype of theYang. Often associatedwith a dragon indesigns of carvedjade, is the phoenix,a highly conven-tionalized birdwhich ordinarily symbolizes prosperity. The phoenix, how-ever, also stands for passionate love andis consequently an appropriate and sym-bolic love gift. Much the same symboHsm is attached. in the Han dynastyin the first centuryof our era, it broughtwith it a ver}^ in-teresting series ofsymbols, known asthe auspicioussigns, most ofwhich were said tohave been stampedin the footprint ofBuddha. TheseBuddhist sjTiibolswere favorite formsamong the lapidaries of the Kien Lungperiod, and are often met with carved inwhite jade of that epoch. One of the mostcharacteristic of them is the Wheel of Life,a disk represented within a disk, often THE MYSTIC KNOT TWO AUSPICIOUS SYMBOLSA peach blossom, also symbolic of immortalityhas been made a part of this butterfly design A very popularBuddhist sym-bol, carved as abuckle in whitejade
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