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" ... the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead of a crane, the crown of a mandarin drake, the stripes of a dragon, and the vaulted back of a tortoise. The feathers have five... "
The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ... - Sivu 264
tekijä(t) Samuel Wells Williams - 1848 - 614 sivua
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The Chinese Repository, Nide 7

Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1839 - 674 sivua
...quadrupeds, so is the phoenix the most honorable among the feathered tribes. It is described by one author, ' as resembling a wild swan before, and a unicorn behind...virtues, and it is five cubits in height ; the tail is gradated like Pandean pipes, and its song resembles the music of that instrument, having five modulations....

How to Identify Old Chinese Porcelain

Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson - 1907 - 284 sivua
...cock, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead of a crane, the crown of a mandarin duck, the stripes of a dragon, and the vaulted back of a tortoise. It has the five colours of the five virtues, and is five cubits in height; the tail is graduated like...

A Manual of Chinese Metaphor: Being a Selection of Typical Chinese Metaphors ...

Charles Alfred Speed Williams, China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu - 1920 - 624 sivua
...resembling a wild swan before and a unicorn behind ; it has the throat of a swallow, the bill of a cock, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fi.sh, the forehead...vaulted back of a tortoise. The feathers have five colours, which are named 170 PICTURE after the five cardinal virtues, and it is five cubits in height;...

Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Niteet 51–53

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai - 1920 - 872 sivua
...before and a unicorn behind ; it has the throat of a swallow, the bill of a cock, the neck of asnake, the tail of a fish, the forehead of a crane, the crown...vaulted back of a tortoise. The feathers have five colours, which are named after the> five cardinal virtues and it is five cubits in height ; the tail...

Chinese Lanterns

Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson - 1924 - 478 sivua
...resembles a wild swan before and a unicorn behind; it has the throat of a swallow, the bill of a cock, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead...vaulted back of a tortoise. The feathers have five colours which are named after the five cardinal virtues, and it is five cubits in height; the tail...

The Golden Galleon

Alfred Fowler - 1925 - 40 sivua
...Chiny," says I, "says the Phoenix has the throat of a swallow, the bill of a cock, the neck of a sarpent, the tail of a fish, the forehead of a crane, the crown of a mandarin drake, the stripes of a dragon, the back of a tortoise. The feathers have five colors, which are named after the five cardinal virtues,...

A Griffin in China: Fact and Legend in the Everyday Life of the Great Republic

Genevieve Wimsatt - 1927 - 324 sivua
...Huang as "resembling a wild swan before and unicorn behind; it has the throat of a swallow, the bill of a crane, the crown of a mandarin drake, the stripes...five cubits in height. The tail is graduated like pipes, and its song resembles that instrument, having five modulations." This mystic bird described...

Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, Including Korea and Formosa, with ...

Thomas Philip Terry - 1928 - 1262 sivua
...resembling a wild swan before and a unicorn behind; it has the throat of a swallow, the bill uf a cock, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead...five cubits in height; the tail is graduated like 1'Hndean pipes, and its song resembles the music of that instrument, having five modulations.' Virtue,...

Complete Poetical Works: With an Introd. by Louis Untermeyer

Amy Lowell - 1925 - 648 sivua
...resembles a wild swan before and a unicorn behind; it has the throat of a swallow, the bill of a cock, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead...vaulted back of a tortoise. The feathers have five colours which are named after the five cardinal virtues, and it is five cubits in height; the tail...

The Californian, Nide 6

1882 - 788 sivua
...walks, it looks around; as it flies, hosts of birds follow it." Another writer states that it "resembles a wild swan before and a unicorn behind; it has the...colors, which are named after the five cardinal virtues, J and it is five cubits in height; the tail is graduated like Pandean pipes, and its song resembles...




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