Bat due to its same pronounciation with the words ” happiness” and wealth has been used in traditional Chinese auspicious patterns.

This auspicious patterns with bat are widely used in China to express the wish for happiness. The most common one is the flying bat with cloud patterns - it’s a beautiful desire that happiness will come down from the heaven.

Readers whether they are proud parents who wants to find a meaningful and lovely name for their new-born babies boys or those who like to have a Christian name for harmonizing purpose(Numerology) can find the below glossary/dictionary extremely useful in terms of knowing whether the names are of:
·         which origin or
·         meaning of the name concerned or
·         specific Chaldean Single No/Compound No. required

Readers whether they are proud parents who wants to find a meaningful and lovely name for their new-born babies boys or those who like to have a Christian name for harmonizing purpose(Numerology) can find the below glossary/dictionary extremely useful in terms of knowing whether the names are of:
·         which origin or
·         meaning of the name concerned or
·         specific Chaldean Single No/Compound No
 

Readers whether they are proud parents who want to find a meaningful and lovely name for their new-born babies girls or those who like to have a Christian name for harmonizing purpose(Numerology) can find the below glossary/dictionary extremely useful in terms of knowing whether the names are of:

• which origin or
• meaning of the name concerned or
• specific Chaldean Single No/ Compound No

Readers whether they are proud parents who want to give meaningful and lovely names to their new born babies girls or those who like to have a Christian name for harmonizing purpose can find the below glossary/dictionary extremely useful in terms of knowing whether the names are of:

• which origin or
• meaning of the name concerned or
• specific Chaldean Single No/Compound No

Butterfly is also used for traditional decorative pattern amongst Chinese folks as a symbol of auspiciousness.

As Butterfly is slim and graceful & loves to be with flowers. So it is often compared to love and happy marriage. Also “Butterfly” shares the same sound with the word Die - similar to octogenarian which symbolizes longevity.

Interestingly, there is a famous Chinese legendary story called “butterfly lovers”-the story of two young lovers, one a scholar, the other the daughter of a rich magistrate. The lovers met and fell in love. However they were forced to separate by her parents. Heartbroken, the lovers die and in death are united. They reincarnate as two butterflies and as butterflies the two are together forever!

Sheep is a very common pattern used in traditional Chinese decoration.

In ancient time, the word ” sheep” and ” lucky” could be used interchangeably. The pattern using Sheep means good fortune and auspiciousness.

The deer is said to be an immortal creature, the symbol of longevity.

It is said that a deer lives for 1,000 years which is the blue deer, for 2,000 years is the black deer. A deer together with a crane and Nanji Xian Weng ( an old immortal) often guards the Lingzhi.

Deer in Chinese sounds “lu” which shares the same pronounciation with the word ” handsome salary”.

In many designs/patterns, deer is often used to show longevity and wealth.

In the Chinese legen, there are four Gods; each of them controls a direction (north, south,east and west).

They are:

Qing dragon -the God of East

Bai Hu - the God of West

Rosefinch - the God of South

Xuan wu ,the combination of snake & turtle-the God of North

The eight trigrams were given attributes and characteristics that helped to define them symbolically in terms of the natural world, human social arrangement, colors, animal totems and body part.

Summary of I-Ching’s Attributes & Characteristics