What is "Sando Nine Ru"?

Three Duo Nine Ru, a traditional Chinese auspicious pattern. It consists of a bat or Buddha's hand, a peach, a pomegranate and nine ruyi. Prevalent in the Qing Dynasty. With the Buddha's hand to harmonize the "blessing", the peach means "longevity", and the pomegranate is a metaphor for "more children", showing "more blessings, more longevity, and more children! The pomegranate is a metaphor for "many blessings, many lives, and many children".

Chinese auspicious patterns. Prevalent in the Qing Dynasty. The Buddha's hand is used to harmonize "fortune", the peach is used to symbolize "longevity", and the pomegranate is used as a metaphor for "many children", which expresses the symbolism of "many blessings, many lifetimes, and many children". The pomegranate alludes to "many sons", expressing the symbolism of "many blessings, many lives, many sons". The 9 Ruyi are painted to match the Buddha's hand, peach and pomegranate.

The nine Ruyi symbolizes "Nine Ru", i.e., like a mountain, like a mound, like a mausoleum, like a hillock, like a river arriving at a square, like the moon's constancy, like the sun's ascension, like the shade of pines and cypresses, and the longevity of a southern mountain, all of which are meant to be a blessing, and are referred to as the "Three More and Nine Ru".

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The pattern image, that is, some of the natural properties of plants and animals, characteristics and other extension and derivation, which is the most common technique in the auspicious pattern. For example, dragons, phoenixes and pythons are used to symbolize power and nobility. From ancient times to the present, the dragon is the ancient Chinese auspicious deity, is regarded as the totem of the Chinese nation, has the supreme status.

Dragon in China's arts and crafts in the use of a wide range of artists through the evolution of the processing, the image from the fictional more specific. The dragon of the Ming dynasty, bull head, snake body, antlers, shrimp eyes, lion nose, donkey mouth, cat ears, eagle claws, fish tail. The Qing dynasty dragon pattern is stipulated as "nine like", that is, the corner like a deer, item like a snake, scales like a fish, claws like an eagle, palm like a tiger, ear like a cow, can never be confused.

From the posture of the points, there is a group of dragons, sitting dragons, traveling dragons, dragons, dragons and other names. According to the Ming system, for the use of decoration for lifting the dragon embracing auspicious clouds, embracing the bones of the clouds, auspicious clouds embedded in the eight treasures pattern. In fact, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the five-clawed golden dragon has become the royal family special ornaments.

Another example is the cypress evergreen in winter and summer, the cold does not wither, its biological properties are derived from the immortality of man, used to bless the longevity of ten thousand years; Acacia leaves morning Shu night, close to the couple's meaning, used to wish couples harmony; pomegranates, grapes are many seeds, is a prayer for many children, many blessings; peaches or cranes imply longevity.

Chinese characters, by their very nature, provide a wide world for harmonic puns. In the Chinese language, a pronunciation often corresponds to several characters, so the use of the same pronunciation and similarity can achieve certain rhetorical effects. For example, bottle harmonizes with "Ping", which means "peace", bat and Buddha's hand harmonize with "Fortune", magpie harmonizes with "Happiness", osmanthus flower The Chinese character for "noble" is osmanthus and cinnamon, and for "hundred" is lily and cypress.

Auspicious motifs can also be expressed directly in various calligraphic styles of auspicious Chinese characters, such as happiness, longevity, joy and so on. This kind of text to express people's good wishes, as early as the use of the Han brocade will be extremely extensive, to the Ming and Qing dynasties has been an unprecedented development. For example, the word "life" has long been patterned, artistic, and become a good luck charm.

According to the statistics of Auspicious Objects in China, there are more than 300 kinds of graphics of the word "longevity", which is extremely rich in variations, and can be expressed in a variety of fonts. Those with long characters are called "long life", those with round characters are called "round life" (death without disease), and those with multiple characters are also used, such as "Hundred Longevity Diagrams".

The swastika was not originally a Chinese character, but a Sanskrit word, pronounced Srivatsalalsana, meaning "auspicious symbol of the chest. This is a religious symbol, Buddhist writings say that the Lord Buddha's reincarnation of life, the chest hidden up the swastika pattern. In the olden days, this symbol was translated as "Auspicious Sea Cloud". It was officially used as a Chinese character in the seventh century during the reign of Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty. Since then, Buddhist scriptures have written it as "wan" and pronounced it the same way.

Despite its use as a Chinese character, it is still more commonly seen in the form of motifs. The "Wan Zi Qu Shui" pattern in the auspicious designs is a series of interlocking patterns with the four ends of the swastika sticking out and repeating continuously, meaning that the pattern is long and continuous. The "Wanziqu Shui" pattern is mostly used as the background of the pattern. This pattern is the most widely used when push clothing. In the old days, the countryside gentry more than this for the robes and coats of the material, the monarch's ministers of the dragon robe court dress is also more embroidered, woven swastika.