Kien-Mu ou Jian-Mu, arbre du monde chinois (résumé) - Symboles clés - LOTUS. L'Arbre du Monde en général se distingue des autres arbres sacrés par sa localisation au Centre de l'Empire et du Monde. Il symbolise l'Axe du Monde, le lien entre la Terre et le Ciel à la base du développement du monde dans la tradition chinoise. L'Arbre du Monde est décrit dans plusieurs récits mythiques chinois sous deux dénominations distinctes: Kien-Mu, l'Arbre Dressé, évoque naturellement l'Axe du Monde; Jian-Mu, l'Arbre Constructeur (du Monde), fait aussi allusion à l'Axe du Monde car Jian signifie également l'épée, le symbole de l'Axe par excellence.
L'Arbre du Monde rassemble tous les aspects complémentaires de façon équilibrée contrairement à d'autres arbres sacrés. Les autres arbres sacrés forment généralement des paires car ils remplissent des fonctions spécifiques et/ou occupent des lieux particuliers. Cela est aussi vrai pour les deux arbres s'élevant de part et d'autre de l'Arbre du Monde: Fu-Sang, ou le Mûrier Penché, pousse à l'est. Jin Chan. A three-legged money toad The Jin Chan (Chinese: 金蟾; pinyin: jīn chán; literally "Golden Toad"), also called Chan Chu (Chinese: 蟾蜍; pinyin: chánchú; literally "the Toad") or "Zhaocai Chan Chu" (Chinese: 招财蟾蜍; pinyin: zhāocái chánchú; literally "wealth-beckoning toad"), is most commonly translated as "Money Toad" or "Money Frog".
It represents a popular Feng Shui charm for prosperity. This mythical creature is said to appear during the full moon, near houses or businesses that will soon receive good news (most of the time, the nature of this good news is understood to be wealth-related). According to one Chinese legend, the Jin Chan was the greedy wife of one of the Eight Immortals, who was transformed into a toad as punishment for stealing the Peaches of Immortality.[1] According to Feng Shui beliefs, Jin Chan helps attract and protect wealth, and guards against bad luck. See also[edit] References[edit] Ch’an Chu: The Lucky Money Toad, The Anthropology of Money in Southern California. Category:Asian deities. Category:Asian mythology. Category:Asian legendary creatures. Chinese guardian lions.
Chinese guardian lions or Imperial guardian lion, traditionally known in Chinese simply as Shi (Chinese: 獅; pinyin: shī; literally "lion"), and often called "Foo Dogs" in the West, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. Statues of guardian lions have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy, from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), and were believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits. They are also used in other artistic contexts, for example on door-knockers, and in pottery. Pairs of guardian lion statues are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures, with one sitting on each side of the entrance, in China and in other places around the world where the Chinese people have immigrated and settled, especially in local Chinatowns.
Etymology[edit] and less commonly: Seven Lucky Gods of Japan. The Shichifukujin 七福神 are an eclectic group of deities from Japan, India, and China. Only one is native to Japan (Ebisu) and Japan’s indigenous Shintō tradition. Three are deva from India’s Hindu pantheon (Benzaiten, Bishamonten, Daikokuten) and three are gods from China’s Taoist-Buddhist traditions (Fukurokuju, Hotei, Jurōjin). In my mind, it is more fruitful to explore the seven within a Deva-Buddha-Kami (Hindu-Buddhist-Shintō) matrix rather than a standard binary Buddha-Kami model. For that reason, I have devoted most of my research to the three Hindu deva.
Today images of the seven appear with great frequency in Japan. In one popular Japanese tradition, they travel together on their treasure ship (Takarabune 宝船) and visit human ports on New Year’s Eve to dispense happiness to believers. Children are told to place a picture of this ship (or of Baku, the nightmare eater) under their pillows on the evening of January first. 1. ABOVE ILLUSTATION. Modern netsuke of the seven.