Fortune Metaphor
In the Chinese New Year, everyone likes to hear
some words about "Good luck and happiness to you."” To listen to this kind of
words or to see this kind of pictures, people can ask for a good sign. The New
Year pictures use the things we can get easily as a metaphor, such as:Propitious Augurg and Granting
of Wishes, Abundance Year after Year, The Kylin Sends A son, Peace through the
Four Seasons, Three Rams Augur Peace, May All Your wishes Come True, The Announcements
of Peace from Bamboo, Abundance of Propitious Celebration, Five Sons Pass the
Examinations, Gold and Jade Fill the hall, To Have Many good Sons, To Enjoy
both Happiness and Longevity, Five Blessings for Spring, Happiness is Close at
Hand. Now, let's admire the works made by the artists who took infinite pains
to finish them.
An examinee went to the capital of a country to take the exam and wished to accepted without a hitch.
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Two sons both take the mascots to request more children and more wealth and social position.
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Using the baby catching a fish expresses a abundance year after year.
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An auspicious horse carries the inducement to ask for wealth and social position.
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Spring is full of man's world. Blossoming brings wealth and social position.
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Auspicious has fish. In the middle, two fishes match up the propitious things around.
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It's the original edition of the left picture.
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Using the peony metaphors the wealth and the social position.
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It's the original edition of the right picture.
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Using the baby coming to the door metaphors the approach of a wedding.
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Babies take the mirror carved with begging in order to ask for smooth going.
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It's the flourishing sight of the Pan Toco Assembly.
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t's the original edition of the heaven official. It asks for the good fortune which grows abundantly.
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It's the process plate of the left picture.
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The heaven official with a baby descends to the world to give blessing.
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It's the picture of a double blessing.
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It's the complete picture of abundance of propitious celebration.
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The longevity cannular with Eight Immortals asks for prolonging the life.
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It's to thank politely the significant light.
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It's a block print constituted by the metaphor.
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It's a goat with an odd-shaped gold. The surrounding mascots ask for many things.
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Three rams augur peace has the foreground with three goats. The background is decorated by the mascots. |
Using the baby catching a fish represents the baby will be wealthy.
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It's a couplet of the left picture.
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