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Chinese Pinyin: Hu Die
Chinese: 蝴蝶
Name Of Image: Butterfly
Description:

‘Dié 蝶’ from hú dié 蝴蝶, the Chinese character for ‘butterfly’, can be used to pun on ‘dié 耋’, meaning ‘octogenarian’ in the phrase ‘May mother live up to a ripe old age 萱耋’, or ‘dié 瓞’ for ‘small melons’ in the phrase …

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Chinese Pinyin: Gua Die Mian Mian
Chinese: 瓜瓞绵绵
Name Of Image: May the male line in your family clan continue and flourish (pictorial allusion)
Description:

The phrase ‘gua die mian mian 瓜瓞绵绵’ is a variation of a line from the poem Mian 绵 collected in the section of the Greater Odes of the Kingdom (Daya 大雅) in the Classic of Poetry (Shijing 诗经). It is …

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