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  2. Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing

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    'Flying dragon and dancing phoenix') is an auspicious ornaments which symbolizes marital bliss. [23] In the context of a traditional Chinese wedding, the Long, Chinese dragons, and Feng, Chinese phoenix, represent the groom and the bride respectively. [16]: 131 The Longfei fengwu can be used to embroider Chinese cloth shoes, such as xiuhuaxie. [23]

  3. Twelve Ornaments - Wikipedia

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    The dragon and phoenix represent the natural world. In yin and yang terminology, a dragon is male yang and the phoenix a female yin. [7] Therefore, the emperor was often identified as the dragon, while the empress was the phoenix. This was also reflected in the robes they wore. Twelve Symbols national emblem, the state emblem of China from 1913 ...

  4. Amazon (chess) - Wikipedia

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    An icon for the amazon used in diagrams. The amazon, also known as the queen+knight compound or the dragon, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight.It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the king (because it cannot castle and does not know when it is under threat via the check rule) and the pawn (because it cannot practice en passant).

  5. Altar cloth - Wikipedia

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    Altar cloth in the Roman rite. An altar cloth is used in the Christian liturgy to cover the altar.It serves as a sign of reverence as well as a decoration and a protection of the altar and the sacred vessels.

  6. Ao Guang - Wikipedia

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    Later, Ao Guang, along with three other dragon kings, came to Old Pond Pass and took both Li Jing and his wife Lady Yin. Nezha, wishing to free them, offers the dragons all of his internal organs in exchange for his parents. Ao Guang personally agreed to Nezha's resolution with happiness and brought his internal organs to the Jade Emperor.

  7. Hippolyta - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Hippolyta, or Hippolyte [1] (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ t ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἱππολύτη Hippolytē), was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, [2] queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe.

  8. Iron Man's armor - Wikipedia

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    While Tony Stark himself was designed by Don Heck, the designer of the character's first gray suit of armor in 1963 was Jack Kirby. [4] It was recolored gold for the character's initial batch of adventures in Tales of Suspense, [5] before being redesigned again by Steve Ditko later in the year – this was the first version to feature a red and gold/yellow scheme, which would come to be Iron ...

  9. Monstrance - Wikipedia

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    Behind this glass is a holder made of gilded metal, called a lunette or lunula, which holds the host securely in place. When not in the monstrance, the host in its lunula is placed in a special standing container, called a standing pyx, in the Tabernacle. Before the current design, earlier "little shrines" or reliquaries of various shapes and ...