Name & Content: Chinese Twelve Zodiac 12 animals.
More than 30,000 years ago, Chinese ancestors invented the 10 Tian Gan(or heavenly stems)and 12 Di Zhi(or 12 earthly branches for chronological purpose. Later, people used 12 animals to symbolize the 12 earthly branches in order to make things easier to memorize and the animals in order are the mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. You might found out that many Chinese people strongly believe that the time of a person's birth is primary factor in determining that person's characteristics.
This poker selected 54 images of Chinese Twelve Zodiac. It's worth for collect and
valuable gift for your friends.Material: Paper playing cards with box
Quantity: 1 deck(52 suit cards and 2 jokers)
Details: Standard poker size, 100% brand new and never used. Each suit card all has Chinese introduction(it's pity no English).
Size with box: cm = 9.6 X 7.2 X 2.4
inches = 3 3/4 X 2 3/4 X 1 Approx.
Net weight with box: 135 grams = 4.8 oz. Approx.
Simple introduction of the images:
1: The examples you can see.
2: Four suits.
3: A suit of spade.
4: The backside.
PS: A brief introduction of the great novel-"Monkey King" or "Journey To The West":
Journey
to the west is a historic Chinese novel that is considered one of the
four classicals from the Ming dynasty, These novels along with "The
Dream of Red Chamber", "Outlaws of Marsh" as well as "The Romance of
Three Kingdoms" have won popular acclaim from generation to generation.
"Journey To The West" is a combination of myth parable and comedy.It is a
story about a Buddhist monk and bunch of animals with human
characteristic. The animals actually in the story are a very fairy tale
type of mood and they traveled west to India to find Buddhist
scriptures.The animals themselves are celestial being in mortal forms
and they have magical powers that protect them from the goblins and the
evil spirits.
Author
Wu Cheng-en writings create an imaginary world that creates a life like
with the absurd giving us a glance of the different sides of human
nature. Monkey was created out of a rock. He not only has the sharp wit
and an unruly nature of a monkey but also extra ordinary powers that he
uses to overcome demons and monsters. Pig sets off his pig like
clumsiness with the disposition that is the epitome of honesty and
directness. He is always making a mess out of things and generating a
lot of humor in the process.
Before
the monk can find the scriptures he must surmounts 81 obstacles
including overcoming such supernatural beings as cow demon the spider
beast and a living skeleton. These obstacles symbolize the difficulties
and challenges that people meet in the course of ideals.
The
character is the main reason that journey to the west keeps reader in
thrall. The book gets more then and uproars comedy. It gives us readers
an unforgivable insight into life itself. As for the historical record
of journey to the west let's go back to the Tang dynasty. History
actuallyrecalls the Buddhist monk master Shan-chang or master Xuan
Zhuang who acrossed he mighty desert to reach the India continent during
the Tang dynasty. 19 years later he came back to China with over 600
Buddhist scriptures. So the factual basis journey to the west was
born.However master Xuan Zhuang actually was a little bit different from
master san tong. Who was actually a fictional character created by the
author!
In
a novel, Tang Shan-chang maybe a monk on a daring mission to find
Buddha scriptures. But he is also a faint-hearted hypocrite who lacks
transcendent insight and lives life in pectoral fear. He is kind and
compassionate but his inability to distinguish between true and false
hood make him all to susceptible to pig's effort to sew this court. The
result is that he wrongly distresses monkey who can see through the bio
schemes of evil spirits and demons. But of course when he has fallow
blindly in the trap of some fin or other it is always monkey that fall
back on for help.
Actually
the character of the monk happens to be quite similar to the mythical
scholar although he is an idealist at heart he is as weak as a kitten
and just sets there helplessly for rescue when he gets into a
predicament.
The
author is perhaps making a sly jab at the incompetent rulers of his
time. But if Tang Shan-chang is evaluated purely from his viewpoint of
religion or spiritual attainment he appears as not a saintly monk but
rather an ordinary man. So monkey is the real hero in journey to the
west. Monkey is created from a rock on enchanted mountain and because of
his courage and insight is later anointed by his peers as king. But one
day in a flash of enlightenment, this glorious monkey king see that
life is a very temporary thing and that the delights of his timely
existence in the area mountain tree cannot go on forever. Amazingly he
gives it all up to find a master who can guide him on to the path of
spiritual motivation.
Monkey
is gifted with intelligence and agility both mentally and physically.
So he puts his talents to use by mastering his skills of wizardry to the
point of where he can transform himself 72 times in a blink of an eye.
He has a magic wan that can shrink smaller the pen or expand till it is
like a club of bronze and a magic cloud that can take him up to the
heavens or down to the bales of the earth.
The
monkey still retains his mischievous and playful temperament of his
fellow apes. His intelligence and child like naughtiness are reviled
when he does things like deliberately sending pig to scan the near by
mountain and then transforming himself into an insect to keep an eye on
his indolent companion.
Fearing
nothing the monkey would play in the palace of the sea god in heaven or
in Hades itself. He even makes a bet with Buddha. His is a rebellious
character that will just not bow to established rules.
Full
of life and filled with spirit as well as being sincere and optimistic
in nature, he is not bothered by suffering and is always ready to face
up to new challenges. This kind of wiliness to forge ahead maybe the
stuff those heroes are made out of. But it carries with it a weakness of
arrogance impulsiveness and a desire to excel over others.
Pig
fills a role that symbolizes the desire to comfort and pleasure. He to
has magical powers but it is just not the same as monkey. Who makes him
seem naive and clumsy by comparison monkey just love to tease him so pig
does his level best to be a thorn in monkeys side by telling lies about
him to tong song jon.
Pig
is a lazy gluttonous that needs his material comforts when it comes to
trouble he just can't hold his side up so is always first to call on for
help. During their journey he nearly cast his companion in his own
spiritual cultivation inside. When he falls for enticement of beautiful
women and riches. But if finally turns out to be all work of Buddha
salvia that has come to test him. Yet thanks to the author pig ludicrous
behavior brings an ironic smile to the readers face rather then a frown
of disapproval because while pig makes a laughing stock of him self-the
reader is reminded of the covetous raspy nature that empathy the human
condition.
Another
character that appears quite less frequently is friar san when he does
take the stage. His quite resolute and down to nature are readily
apparent.
Actually
In journey of the west is purification of the mind so that the entire
expedition to find Buddha scriptures is actually a way of achieving
spiritual goodness. So in this play three arrogant weakness laziness
even ignorance they are all weakness of human nature that requires
spiritual correction. However honesty goodness and courage are all our
friends in the depths of our soul. And this way the journey to the west
the various characters in battle with evil and they teach us that in
human life it is possible and temper ourselves to achieve ideals and
goodness.
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