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Forbidden City Beijing Female Guardian Lion Royalty Free Stock Photo
Forbidden City Beijing Female Guardian Lion Royalty Free Stock Photo
Bronze Imperial guardian lion in famous Forbidden City Beijing C Royalty Free Stock Photo
Bronze Imperial guardian lion in famous Forbidden City Beijing C Royalty Free Stock Photo
Bronze Imperial guardian lion in famous Forbidden City Beijing C Royalty Free Stock Photo
   
Marble wall ornament in the Forbidden City of Beijing China Royalty Free Stock Photo
Forbidden City Beijing Female Guardian Lion
Bronze Imperial guardian lion in famous Forbidden City Beijing C Royalty Free Stock Photo
Guilded Imperial guardian lion in famous Forbidden City Beijing Royalty Free Stock Photo
Marble wall ornament in the Forbidden City of Beijing China Royalty Free Stock Photo
Traditional guilded male Imperial guardian lion with the symbol Royalty Free Stock Photo
Bronze Imperial guardian lion holding the world in famous Forbid Royalty Free Stock Photo
Beijing, China - November 10, 2010: Sculpture of a guardian lion playing with her cub at the Gate of Heavenly Purity, the main Royalty Free Stock Photo
Gilded Imperial guardian lion in famous Forbidden City Beijing China Royalty Free Stock Photo
Courtesy Wikipedia: Chinese guardian lions or Imperial guardian lion, traditionally known in Chinese simply as Shi and often called "Foo Dogs" in the West, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. Statues of guardian lions have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy, from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), and were believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits. Pairs of guardian lion statues are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures, with one sitting on each side of the entrance, in China and in other places around the world where the Chinese people have immigrated and settled, especially in local Chinatowns. The lions are usually depicted in pairs. When used as statuory, the pair would consist of a male resting his paw upon an embroidered ball (in imperial contexts, representing supremacy over the world) and a female restraining a playful cub that is on its back (representing nurture).


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