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2. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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   A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories. Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and ...

3. Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing - Wikipedia

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   Twelve ornaments; Name Symbolism Description images Sun (日, rì) Source of life Sun with the sanzuwu (Three-legged crow) inside it. Moon (月, yuè) Heaven Moon with a moon rabbit inside Three stars (星辰, xīngchén) Cosmic universe as personified by the Emperor, it is an unending source of pardon and love Mountains (山, shān)

4. Xiangyun (Auspicious clouds) - Wikipedia

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   Auspicious clouds/ clouds/ lucky clouds. Xiangyun ( simplified Chinese: 祥云; traditional Chinese: 祥雲; pinyin: xiángyún ), are traditional Chinese stylized clouds decorative patterns. [1] [2] : 581 [3] : 132 They are also known as yunwen ( 云纹; 雲紋; 'cloud motif'), auspicious clouds, lucky clouds, and sometimes abbreviated as ...

5. Ornamental plant - Wikipedia

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   Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty [1] but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that improve on the original species in qualities such as color, shape, scent, and long-lasting blooms.

6. Acanthus (ornament) - Wikipedia

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   In architecture, an ornament may be carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the Acanthus genus of plants, which have deeply cut leaves with some similarity to those of the thistle and poppy. Both Acanthus mollis and the still more deeply cut Acanthus spinosus have been claimed as the main model, and ...

7. Christmas decoration - Wikipedia

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   As the first widely circulated picture of a decorated Christmas tree in America, the custom there spread. Christmas trees may be decorated with lights and ornaments. Types of decorations Glass ornaments. Figural glass Christmas ornaments originated in the small town of Lauscha, Germany in the latter half of the 19th century. The town had long ...