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Know Your 3 Chinese Gatekeepers: Dragons, Qilins, Shis

Chinese gatekeepers are a traditional architectural ornament. They are known as Dragons, Qilins, and Shils. The concept, which originated and became popular in Chinese Buddhism, features a pair of highly stylized ornaments which were thought to protect a building from harmful spiritual influences and harmful people that might be a threat. Used in imperial Chinese palaces and tombs, they subsequently spread to ...

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A yellow dragon from the Nine-Dragon Wall in the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.