What are the meanings and symbols of bats?

The bat is a symbol of "all good fortune". It symbolizes happiness, wishful thinking, or happiness that extends indefinitely.

In China, because the word "bat" and the word "blessing" have the same sound, it is still loved by people in the folklore, and its image is drawn on the New Year's paintings. Yuan Zhen's poem "Jingzhongqiu" (Autumn in the Scenery) in Changqingji XV reads, "The curtains are broken and the fireflies enter, while the bats fly in the bright windows."

Bats are called "bats" in the province, and because "bat" and "blessing" are homophonic, people use bats to express blessings, fortune, luck, longevity, happiness and other auspiciousness. In folk paintings, five bats are drawn, which means "five blessings at the door".

Old silk brocade is often patterned with bats. Weddings, birthdays and other celebrations of women's heads wearing pompoms (such as "five bats to hold life", etc.) and some costumes, artifacts are also commonly used in the bat modeling.

Feng Menglong, "Laughing House. Bat riding the wall": "Phoenix birthday, all the birds, but the bat does not come." It says it is not a bird but a quadruped. Then it was the unicorn's turn to celebrate his birthday, and all the animals came to congratulate him, but the bat didn't come again. This time, it said it had wings and could fly, so it was a bird, not a beast. This joke satirizes the bat as a slippery wall-rider．

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The bat pattern is a traditional Chinese allegorical pattern. A bat is not a bird or a mouse, but a mammal capable of flying, belonging to the order Pterodactyla in zoology.

In traditional Chinese decorative arts, the image of the bat is used as a symbol of happiness, and the custom uses the resonance of the characters "bat" and "fu", and the bat's flight, combined with the symbolism of "entering the blessing", which means "to enter the blessing". "It is hoped that happiness will come down from the sky like bats. With this group of auspicious patterns.

A kind of folk traditional porcelain blessing decorative pattern, there are a single bat pattern and bat pattern combination of patterns, bat and blessing homophonic, a metaphor for blessing and the meaning of happiness.

such as a bat flying in front of the eyes, known as the "blessing in front of the eyes", the bat and the horse composed of "immediately blessed", the upper part of a circle of red bats, also known as Hongfuqitian.