Colorful Fu Do Pair on Stand with Tai Chi Swords
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Colorful Fu Do Pair on Stand with Tai Chi SwordsJUST 14.99 for this Colorful Fu Do Pair on Stand with Tai Chi Swords! Let both male and female stand guard at your home or businesses entrances or exits. The Feng Shui Colorful Fu Do Pair on Stand with Tai Chi Swords also attracts prosperity. Imperial guardian lions, also called Fu Lions or Foo Dogs, and called Shi in Chinese, are powerful mythic protectors that have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, temples, emperors' tombs, government offices, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), until the end of the empire in 1911. In Greater Tibet, the guardian lion is known as a Snow Lion and similar to japanese shishi. Imperial guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, and other structures. In Myanmar they are called Chinthe and gave their name to the World War II Chindit soldiers. The lions are traditionally carved from decorative stone such as marble and granite or cast in bronze or iron. Because of the high cost of these materials and the labor required to produce them, private use of Imperial guardian lions was traditionally reserved for wealthy or elite families. Indeed, a traditional symbol of a family's wealth or social status was the placement of Imperial guardian lions in front of the family home. However, in modern times less expensive lions, mass produced in concrete and resin, have become available and their use therefore no longer restricted to the elite.
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