The Wind Lion Gods — or “Wind Lion Masters” (風獅爺) in Mandarin — are stone sculptures brought to Kinmen from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in China to protect the group of islands from evil spirits, bad luck ...

This tradition, passed down from ancient times, involves lion statues - typically carved from ... In some rural areas of China, villagers cover the faces or eyes of the stone lions with red ...

For the first time in nearly three years, the iconic lion statue at the Ginza Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo welcomed customers without a mask. The department store removed the facemask from ...

HSBC’s famous lion sculptures, known as Stephen and Stitt ... who wiped he bodies of the two statues with a red cloth and burning incense sticks. Lung had advised HSBC on feng shui – the ...