What is the animal that blesses a person to live to 70 years old next to a plum tree in a Chinese auspicious painting?

Pine tree + crane = pine and crane prolonging life

Cat + butterfly = oldest old (cat and butterfly harmonize)

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Combination of crane and pine with turtle. There is "Pine and Crane", which is a pattern composed of pine and crane. Pine is the wood of longevity, the ancients worship pine, the characteristics of the long life of the pine to mystify, so that the pine has become a symbol of longevity in people's lives. The use of pine in birthday wishes is precisely to take its meaning of longevity. Crane in our traditional beliefs, is a fairy full of good luck, symbolizing the immortal longevity. The crane's

form is extraordinary, elegant demeanor, so with the immortal associated with the crane, the crane in the Danding Crane is known as the immortal crane. The ancients believed that the crane was a long-lived immortal bird. The Huainan eight male phase of the crane scripture, said: "the crane, because of the gold gas according to the fire essence to raise their own, the number of gold nine, the number of fire seven, so seven years of small changes, sixteen years of big changes, a hundred and sixty years of change stops, a thousand and six hundred years of the shape of the body to set. Still clean, so its color white, sound heard in the sky, so the head red, food in the water, so its beak is long, Xuan in the front, so the back toes are short, perched on the land, so the feet are high and the tail tuned to fly in the clouds, so the hair is rich and meat is 〓. The big throat to spit out the old, cultivate the neck to accept the new, so born, the great life can not be measured. ......" This fantasy about the mystery of the crane's longevity is a manifestation of people's desire to become immortal and live long. The Southern Song Dynasty's Liu Jingshu, "The Different Courts" Volume 3, recorded a story that two white cranes in Jin knew

what happened in the legendary Yao Emperor's era, which can be seen in its longevity. "Jin Taikang two years of winter, the great cold, Nanzhou people saw two white cranes talking under the bridge, said: 'Today, the cold is not less than the Yao collapse year also.' So they flew away." From this legend, the idiom of "Crane speaks of Yao years" was introduced, to compare the long history and insight. In Taoism, the crane is a symbol of the immortals, and those who are immortal often have the characteristics of "crane hair and childlike face". There is a record in Shishu Xinyan that Wang Gong put on a cloak made of crane feathers, and Meng Chang commented that he was "really a man of the immortals". From this record, we can see that the ancient mind of the immortal and the crane have the same characteristics of form and spirit. The crane can even be the incarnation of the immortal. In the canonical books, there are rumors of people becoming immortal by transforming themselves into cranes. Volume 1 of the Record of the Search for Gods says: "Ding Lingwei, a native of Liaodong, studied the Way at Lingxu Mountain and later returned to Liaodong in the guise of a crane." This rumor is also recorded in the Record of the Search for Gods, which states that Ding Lingwei advised people to learn Taoism and become immortal after he transformed into a crane: "At the gate of Liaodong City, there was a pillar of the Huabiao (Huabiao), and suddenly a crane gathered and hovered in the air, saying: 'There is a bird, there is a bird, Ding Lingwei, who has been away from his home for a thousand years and now he is coming back, and the city and the castle are like the same and the people are not the same, so why don't you learn to become immortal and go away, but you will be accompanied by an empty mound? Then he went up to the sky." Of course, in more often than not, the crane is the tool for the immortal to become immortal, and the immortal often rises up on the crane in, at the same time, the crane is also the mount for the immortal to travel around. Yin Yun, a Liang scholar in the Southern Dynasty, said in the sixth volume of his Novels, "Some guests came from each other, and each of them spoke of their own aspirations. Or would like to be the assassin of Yangzhou, or would like to be rich in material, or would like to rise on a crane. One of them said, "With a waist of 100,000 kilos, ride a crane to Yangzhou." The crane is a dream of the ancients to become immortal

The physical object, symbolizing longevity of the auspicious, so often combined with the longevity of the pine tree to form a longevity chart. Cranes are also often combined with turtles to form longevity pictures, because turtles are also long-lived animals, as mentioned earlier.

Longevity drawings also have the word "longevity" composition, can be referred to as "longevity pattern". Both multi-character composition, such as the "Hundred Shou Tu"; there is also a single character composition, the character shape of the long said "longevity", rounded said "round life" or "group life "

Multiple characters are used.

The multi-character composition of the Hundred Longevity Figure, is a copy of the ancient and modern body "Shou" word one hundred constitutes the pattern. And can be divided into two types. One type is in a large birthday character in a wide stroke frame, covered with a hundred different font "birthday" character. The other type is a hundred different "Shou" characters, arranged in ten rows, ten in each row, constituting a square; or a hundred "Shou" characters in a circle, constituting a circular pattern. The Hundred Longevity Picture appeared in the Song Dynasty at the latest. Qian Zeng of the Qing dynasty "reading Minquanji - word study hundred birthday map", said the Southern Song dynasty shao jing shi jing jiang order shi said in the fuzi rock carving hundred birthday characters. The Ming dynasty has been very popular. Ming Zhengde Kunming Zhao Bi compiled "Hundred Shou character" book, divided into 24 kinds. Ming Zhu Guozhen "Chung block sketch" is recorded in a family collection of longevity map: "the imperial historian Zhang (Xuezuo) of the family collection of longevity characters, from his ancestor left. Word height of four feet seven inches, regular script black text, its dots and paintings, all small longevity characters, white text for the other method, full hundred no together." Cao Xueqin also mentioned the Hundred Longevity Diagram in Dream of Red Mansions, which was placed on the perimeter screen. The seventy-first book said: "Jia mother asked: 'before these people send gifts, *** how many have a screen?' Sister Feng said: '*** there are sixteen, there are twelve large ...... a clay and gold Hundred Longevity Figure is the first class.'" Hundred birthday map is a popular birthday gift, has been inherited, still used to celebrate life. In recent years, Shanxi seal carver Xu Ruoshi created a seal carving work "thousand longevity seal", 30 meters long, **** by 1050 longevity seals. Seal text has oracle bone, small seal script, han yin, weibei, ancient coins, wadang text and regular, cursive, line, scribe, and Mongolian, Manchu, Korean and other ethnic minorities, it can be said to be the concentration of Chinese nationalities, ancient and modern "longevity" of the font of the great success.

The monolithic "longevity" pattern and "round longevity" pattern are patterned characters, which are more like patterns than words. In addition, the monolithic "longevity" pattern has an additional pattern, such as "Ruyi Shouzhi Group", in the round longevity pattern surrounded by Ruyi pattern; and

"five blessings to hold longevity", drawing Five bats surrounded by a circle, a circle of longevity pattern and so on. These longevity patterns are mostly used for birthday celebrations, pasted on the door, wall and various appliances, and even printed on the old man's clothes, covers, pillows, etc., in order to pray for longevity.