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  2. Monkeys in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    Read [21] suggests it is the "lar gibbon, Hylobates entelloides", and Luo identifies it as the golden snub-nosed monkey Rhinopitheeus roxellana. [22] In addition to meaning "golden snub-nosed monkey", Van Gulik notes that in modern Chinese zoological terminology, rong denotes the Callitrichidae (or Hapalidae) family including marmosets and ...

  3. Monkeys in Japanese culture - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese cultural meaning of the monkey has diachronically changed. Beginning with 8th-century historical records, monkeys were sacred mediators between gods and humans; around the 13th century, monkeys also became a "scapegoat" metaphor for tricksters and dislikable people. These roles gradually shifted until the 17th century, when the ...

  4. Golden monkey - Wikipedia

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    The golden monkey (Cercopithecus mitis kandti) is a subspecies of the blue monkey. [2] It is an Old World monkey found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, including four national parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga and Kahuzi-Biéga, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

  5. Golden snub-nosed monkey - Wikipedia

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    The golden snub-nosed monkey is also listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meaning that international trade in this species is prohibited. [1] In 2004, the endangered aspect of this monkey was publicized in a postage stamp issued by Guernsey Post.

  6. Saving Brazil's golden monkey, one green corridor at a time

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    Saving Brazil's golden monkey, one green corridor at a time. ... In Brazil, the animal became a symbol for wildlife preservation, even featuring on the country's 20-real bill.

  7. Three wise monkeys - Wikipedia

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    The carvings at Tōshō-gū Shrine were carved by Hidari Jingoro, and are believed to have incorporated Confucius’s Code of Conduct, using the monkey as a way to depict man’s life cycle. There are a total of eight panels, and the iconic three wise monkeys picture comes from panel 2.

  8. Simians (Chinese poetry) - Wikipedia

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    猴, hóu, meaning "monkey, ape; monkey-like; simian". Various vocabulary terms for simians are encountered in Chinese poetry. Besides a certain pre-modern lack of modern bioscientific taxonomic precision, records of Chinese language usage in references to various simian species show evidence of variability over the ages.

  9. Jin Chan - Wikipedia

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    A three-legged money toad. The Jin Chan (Chinese: 金蟾; pinyin: jīn chán; lit. 'Golden Toad'), also called Chan Chuy (Chinese: 蟾蜍; pinyin: chánchú; lit. 'Toad') or "Zhaocai Chan Chu" (Chinese: 招财蟾蜍; pinyin: zhāocái chánchú; lit. 'wealth-beckoning toad'), is most commonly translated as "Money Toad" or "Money Frog".