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Gua Yin Feng Hou (Hang the Official Seal, Appoint to a High Rank)

Tags: blessing | print

This decorating print uses homophone to express blessings. Two beehives hanging upside down on a pine tree, with a monkey (hou) driving the bees (feng) away; the pronunciations are similar in Chinese to gua yin feng hou (“Hang the Official Seal, Appoint to a High Rank”).

 

Printmaking
23 x54 cm

National Museum of History