What do ancient pine trees, cranes and bats symbolize?

Pine crane prolongs life, which means longevity, because pine and cypress are evergreen, which means immortality; Cranes are lucky because of their aura; Bat homophonic, representing "blessing". Pine tree is the protagonist in Three Friends in a Cold Year. Pine tree has the longest life, so there is a folk saying that "life is longer than that of Nanshan pine". Painters of past dynasties matched magpies with pine, which is called "good news for all generations"; Mixing daffodils with bamboo loosely is called "giving a good harvest"; Ganoderma lucidum with cranes is called "Songhe Yannian".

A crane is different from a phoenix. If the phoenix has a royal flavor, then the crane reveals a civilian flavor. No matter where you come from, as long as you have ambition, you are qualified to dance with cranes. Moreover, it can be noted that cranes have not changed because of the alienation of gods after entering the Taoist system. Like deer, it is only used as a mount for immortals in most cases. Therefore, the status of cranes in the celestial world is not high. However, due to the close relationship between cranes and Taoism and immortals, cranes, as a cultural phenomenon, have another extension: they are regarded as immortal things. In the folk, cranes and pine trees combine to become a symbol of longevity. "The pine crane prolongs the year" and "the crane sends a child's face" have become a compliment to those who live long. This is where cranes, as a cultural phenomenon, have an impact on China people.

Songhe Yannian: It means that the husband and wife will get along well for a hundred years, grow old together, and be lucky and healthy.

"Bat" is a homonym of blessing, so in China culture, bat is a symbol of happiness and blessing, and bat modeling often appears in many traditional Chinese patterns. For example, "Five Blessingg Shoushou" is five artistic bat shapes around the pattern of longevity figures.