Hibiscus (_kuei_) flowers on a brocade ground. Round medallions of season flowers. Flower designs broken by medallions of landscape. Marsh plants. Sections of water melons (_hsi kua pan_). Foreign pomegranates; sometimes tied with fillets. The sacred peach. Medallions of peach boughs with the seal character _shou_ (longevity). Apricot (_hsing_) foliage. Pine pattern brocade. Ginseng (_hsien_). Hemp-leaved (_ma yeh_) Indian lotus. Borders of bamboo foliage and branching prunus. Grape-vine borders. _Animals, etc.:_ Monsters: variously described as _hai shou_ (sea monsters) and _i shou_ (strange monsters). Nine blue monsters in red waves. Strange monsters attending the celestial dragon. Sea horses. Full-faced dragons (_chêng mien lung_). See Plate 66. Medallions of archaic dragons (_ch’ih_) and tigers. Ascending and descending dragons. Couchant, or squatting (_tun_) dragons. Flying dragons. The hundred dragons. The hundred storks. The hundred deer. (As in the “Hundred Shou Characters” and other similar phrases, the “hundred” is merely an indefinite numerative signifying a large number.) Elephants with vases of jewels (of Buddhistic significance). Water birds in lotus plants. Six cranes, “symbolising the cardinal points of the universe” (_liu ho ch’ien k’un_). Phœnixes among the season flowers. Bees hovering round plum blossom. _Human:_ Men and women (_shih nü_). Medallions with boys pulling down (branches of) cassia (_p’an kuei_). The picture of the Hundred Boys. _Fu_, _Lu_, _Shou_ (Happiness, Rank, and Longevity). It is not stated whether the characters only are intended, or, as is more probable, the three Taoist deities who distribute these blessings. =Emblematic Motives and Inscriptions.= The eight Buddhist emblems, bound with fillets (_kuan t’ao_). _Ju-i_ sceptres bound with fillets. _Ju-i_ cloud borders (_ju i yün pien_). Midsummer holiday symbols (_tuan yang chieh_). Explained by Bushell as sprigs of acorns and artemisia hung up on the fifth day of the fifth moon. Emblems of Longevity (_shou tai_), e.g. gourd, peach, fungus, pine, bamboo, crane, deer. The “monad symbol” (_hun yüan_), which is apparently another name for the _yin yang_, and the Eight Trigrams. See p. 290. Lozenge symbols of victory (_fang shêng_). “The four lights worshipping the star of Longevity” (_ssŭ yang p’êng shou_). Spiral (_hui_ [chch 1]) patterns. Sanskrit invocations (_chên yen tz’ŭ_). See Plate 93. Ancient writings found at Lo-yang (_lo shu_). Lo-yang (the modern Honan Fu) was the capital of the Eastern Han (25–220 A.D.). Inscriptions in antique seal characters (_chuan_). Dragons holding up the characters [chch 4] _yung pao wan shou_ (ever insuring endless longevity); and [chch 6] _yung pao hung fu ch’i t’ien_ (ever insuring great happiness equalling Heaven).