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Input Date:02/23/2007 Read: [Print] [Close]

The other art form is the totem animal symbol displayed tn Chinese food and eating culture. In areas where fish and frog are idolized, people believe that life come from mother's body of yin-yang fish or yin-yang frog. Therefore, they make holiday bread in the shape of a pair of fish; or a pair of tigers in areas of tiger idol; or a tiger head on a dragon body with fish tail; implying integration of earth and the sky. For sheep-idol area, it is a pair of sheep, or three sheep that marks a new beginning.

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