Thursday, January 19, 2012

An Essential Insight Into Oriental Animal Symbols

9:28 AM
By Steve Chung


In the history of the world, many cultures have used animal symbols. However the importance of animal symbols in the Chinese culture cannot be compared to other cultures as a matter of fact.

Generations after generations these Chinese animal symbols of profound meanings were passed on. Moreover Chinese people are already famous for their outstanding powers of observation and philosophical ideas. This god-gifted skill was utilized to study animal behavior and characters and also knowledge about their traits. This resulted in listing out characteristics that had links with the human nature and personality.

Chinese animal symbols have a different worth of its own. Some take it as reminders; others take it as omens and charms. One of the vital aspects of these Chinese animal symbols is that they have an artistic splendor in their visual representation.

Factually these Chinese animal symbols have a diverse variety of mediums and hence this diversity is seen in their fashion of representation. What is interesting is that we might find the particular animal diverse in its physical representation but the meaning and characteristic linked with the animal remains constant.

You may possibly of find Chinese animal symbols in a wide variety of mediums like paintings, clothes, paintings on homes, embroidery etc. Lately, these animal symbols have collected a group of lovers who are not even from the Chinese background.

The western world has been greatly influenced and enchanted by the Chinese animal symbols. It is fascinating to find people actually to go through the trouble of searching for their birth year in the Chinese lunar calendars to find their symbol.

Then they put this information to use in many different ways. You will find some people get themselves tattooed with the Chinese animal symbol that marks the year in which the individual was born. T-shirts, caps, jewelry and posters etc are other mediums through which Chinese animal symbols are becoming part of the western culture.

Chinese people have their own set of beliefs in relation to these animal symbols. These symbols are supposed to be highly positive and their presence can bring about a lot of positive changes in a man's life. The approach depends on understanding the meaning and characteristics behind the animal symbol and then trying to include them in your own lives.

What the western world requires to do is to basically find the animal that denotes the person's birth year according to the lunar Chinese calendar. Then he must use it in different forms of art.




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