Name of a Chinese ( Good Luck ) Sculpture ?
I bought a chinese ( good luck ) sculpture in Shenzhen, China. The sales person told me the name of the sculpture ( sounds like pixieu ).
The sculpture has a lion’s body, a dragon’s head with a wide open mouth, its has wings and a tail. It’s a pair – a male and a female.
It is good luck charm for business – since money will come in and won’t go out.
Do you know the name of this sculpture ?
Do you know of any reference to Fung Shui ?
Thank you.
It is exactly called the pixieu and you’re right about money coming in and not going out with the pixieu because this legendary creature is thought to only eat but not pass out anything after (slightly gross I know).
Actually the Chinese usually use a fortune-drawing cat (招財貓 zhao cai mao) in shops that is thought to draw business in. It looks like a standing cat with one of its paws moving back and forth as if to ask people to come in.
here are 2 examples of a fortune-drawing cat
http://shopping.longhoo.net/special/images/00074289.jpg
http://www.omni-market.com.tw/images/LC001-L.jpg
hope this helped =)
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