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What does the windmill represent?

In traditional Chinese culture, windmills are also known as auspicious wheels, Bagua wind wheels, and four-season peace talismans. This thing is inconspicuous, but when the Spring Festival comes, you can see it all over the streets. It is made of sorghum stalks, clay flaps and colored paper. Its small wheel rotates to pray for good weather; its small drum sound symbolizes the sound of harmony; its red, yellow and green colored strips are symbols of sunshine, earth and blue sky. It was most popular in the capital during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was a symbol of old Beijing. People called it an auspicious wheel. Later, people used to call it windmill. Windmills originated in the Zhou Dynasty. Among the people, windmills represent joy and auspiciousness. They were invented by Jiang Ziya to suppress demons and demons. Their original name was the Bagua Wind Wheel.

The symbol of German legal system - the windmill of Sanssussi Palace

The streets of Jianguomen in Beijing are also symbolized by windmills

The windmill is not only a scenery, but also a spiritual symbol and a totem. As a saying spread in Europe: "God created man, and Dutch windmills created the land." The windmill symbolizes the national culture of the Netherlands, people's love for the sky, and fairy tale happiness. Windmills can be seen everywhere in Spain. Although the windmills now have lost their original functions, they do symbolize the past of Spanish agriculture.

In modern corporate culture, the windmill symbolizes the corporate spirit or human quality, taking the meaning of "seeking truth and being pragmatic" and "removing the false and retaining the true". Windmill - represents bravery, diligence, enterprising spirit, loyalty, happiness, agility and love. The windmill and peach blossom array arranged in the lobby of the large hotel brings good luck to guests with the lucky windmill and peach blossoms symbolizing the prosperity of popularity. Distribute lucky pinwheels to guests so that everyone can change their luck in real time. The windmill symbolizes that the career is moving forward and prospering.

The rotating windmill symbolizes the vitality and endless flow of life.