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Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees.
A modern 'money tree' observed in Yunnan, China, 1 December 2015. They are made from bronze and green-glazed earthenware. Money trees are decorated with scenes of paradise containing magical creatures and immortals including the sun bird, the moon toad, the deer who finds the main ingredient for the elixir of immortality, and the clever monkey who steals the elixir.
Chinese money trees (Traditional Chinese: 搖錢樹; Simplified Chinese: 摇钱树; Pinyin: yáo qián shù), or shengxianshu, ("immortal ascension trees"), [155] [156] are tree-like assemblies of charms, with the leaves made from numismatic charm replicas of cash coins.
A symbol of prosperity, good fortune and positive energy, the money tree has become a popular gift across cultures and is considered one of the best feng shui plants.The ancient legend originating ...
Common names include Sander's dracaena, ribbon dracaena, lucky bamboo, curly bamboo, Chinese water bamboo, Goddess of Mercy's plant, Belgian evergreen. [4] It is also called the ribbon plant , although the same common name is sometimes used for Chlorophytum comosum (also known as the spider plant ).
Ba jiao gui (Chinese: 芭蕉鬼; pinyin: bā jiāo guǐ; lit. 'banana ghost' [5]) is a female ghost that dwells in a banana tree and appears wailing under the tree at night, sometimes carrying a baby. In some folktales from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, greedy people ask for lottery numbers from the ghost in the hope of winning money. They ...
In this case, some Chinese people regard 4 as the propitious and lucky number. There is also an old Chinese idiom 四季发财 (To be Wealthy All Year). [5] [6] In traditional Chinese history and other Chinese dialect groups like the Teochew people, the number 4 is considered a very lucky and auspicious number. For starters, it is an even number.
Its fruit is deep red-black in color encasing a large seed that bears some resemblance to a 'Chinese lucky nut.' [clarification needed] Leaves and buds of yellow oleander (Cascabela thevetia) in Domjur, West Bengal, India. Cascabela thevetia is commonly known as Kaneir or Kaner (कनेर) in Hindi language in India.