The White Cat's Divine Scratching PostCh90 - Great Array

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蛊 [ɡǔ] Legendary venomous worm /Poison; contaminate; harm.

Gu or jīncán (金蚕) lit. “gold silkworm” was a venom-based poison associated with cultures of south China, particularly Nanyue. The traditional preparation of gu poison involved sealing several venomous creatures (e.g., centipede, snake, scorpion) inside a closed container, where they devoured one another and allegedly concentrated their toxins into a single survivor, whose body would be fed upon by larvae until consumed. The last surviving larva held the complex poison.

Gu was used in black magic practices such as manipulating sexual partners, creating malignant diseases, and causing death. According to Chinese folklore, a gu spirit could transform into various animals, typically a worm, caterpillar, snake, frog, dog, or pig. JG4vjE

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Maybe I’m over-explaining but just in case, gauze has a loose open weave which means that the space between the threads is visible. Basically, it’s the same as fearing turning into a colander.

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The legendary path of immortals to heaven. As seen for example in Guo Pu’s poetry, among others.
First Poem of Wandering Immortals by Guo Pu.

MTL invented the escalator!

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顺其自然 (shùn qí zì ran) to let nature take its course (idiom). In accordance with natural tendency; take things as they come; let it be.

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Chinese imperial roof decorations are statuettes placed along the ridge line of official buildings of the Chinese empire.

Chrysanthemum Garden.

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It actually said 天不遂虎愿 which means “the heavens failed to fulfil the tiger’s hopes”. The phrase is normally 天不遂人愿 (tiān bù suì rén yuàn) but here the author replaced man with tiger. I could have also gone with “tiger proposes, god disposes.”

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It probably looks similar to this:

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This part of the Taiji design:

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The ten Heavenly Stems or Celestial Stems are a system of ordinals that first appeared during the Shang dynasty, c. 1250 BC, as the names of the ten days of the week. They were also used in Shang-period ritual as names for dead family members, who were offered sacrifices on the corresponding day of the Shang week.

The twelve Earthly Branches or Terrestrial Branches are an ordering system used throughout East Asia in various contexts, including its ancient dating system, astrological traditions, zodiac and ordinals.

Together, they form a 60-year calendrical cycle which is used throughout East Asia. Although this traditional method of numbering days and years no longer has any significant role in modern Chinese time-keeping or the official calendar it continues to have a role in contemporary Chinese astrology and fortune telling.

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