Some Slightly Different Stone Lions |
These stone lions have been put in this section because they are somewhat different from the run-of-the-mill stone lion found in China. They include lions outside a Tibetan temple, some whimsical-looking lions from Hue, Vietnam, and a Ming-dynasty lion.
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Lions outside a Tibetan temple on the way to Jiuzhaigou,
Sichuan province (they don't appear to be made of stone at all)
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Two rather idiosyncratic stone lions in Hue,
Vietnam
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Ming dynasty stone lion outside the ancient Daoist temple
in Lecheng, Qionghai, Hainan. This is the sole survivor of the pair. Ming
dynasty lions are quite different from later lions because (1) they don't
look like lions, (2) they don't look ferocious, and (3) there is no differentiation
into male and female lions. To my regret, I failed to photograph a fine
pair of Ming lions, looking somewhat similar to this one, at Zumiao
in Foshan, Guangdong Province.
The current lions outside the temple can be found at Stone Lions in Hainan (2) |
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in Hainan (1) Haikou and Sanya |
Stone Lions
in Hainan (2) Qionghai and Haikou |
