File:Happiness is before your eyes amulet (Etnografiska museet).jpg

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English: Some Chinese numismatic charms contain visual puns such as a Gourd charm that is composed of two replicas of Wu Zhu cash coins with a bat placed to obscure the characters that are nearest to each other, the Chinese word for bat sounds similar to that of "happiness", the square hole in the centre of a cash coin is referred to as an "eye" (眼, yǎn), and as the Chinese word for "coin" (錢, qián) has almost the same pronunciation as "before" (前, qián). For this reason this charm could be interpreted as "happiness is before your eyes".
Svenska: Amulettmynt med två fyrkantiga hål. Dekor i relief på ena sidan.

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2018-05-27
First published in Europeana: 2013-11-22

Last updated in Europeana: 2017-09-18
Source Amulett, Högtider (Europeana.eu)
Author Etnografiska museet

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