Totem animal or legendary animal are often characterized by the geographical regions. Pasted on the doors in yellow glossy paper are local patron-saints varying from area to area, a deer or a rooster in Inner Mongolia; a tiger or "baby with coiled hair riding a tiger" in central China; a monkey or "baby with coiled hair riding a monkey, or riding a cow," in Henan, etc.
Along the Yellow River mid-stream, people congregate to worship. All the women in the village participate in making a-hundred-piece, or a-thousand-piece embroidery net. Each household makes one square piece of an animal figure or a plant, and then the whole village come together and makes them into one big lucky cross to hang on the top of the temple.
