[White Tiger Carved Stone]
White Tiger Carved Stone, Sui Dynasty, 83 cm high and 102 cm long
This stone portrait adopts the method of shallow relief, with the feather man riding on the back of the tiger, the ribbon rising, and the hand pulling the reins from the tiger’s mouth. The tiger opened its mouth to reveal its tusks, and its eyebrows were long and dense, its eyes glared forward, its front paws extended, its rear paws mounted straight, and its elbow hair fluttered. The white tiger soars to the sky
The General Sense of Customs says: “The tiger, the penis, is the best of all animals. It can fight, defeat and eat ghosts.” This is one of the reasons why there are more tigers in ancient Chinese tombs. Among the four gods, the tiger is the god of the West, and the West is also the ultimate paradise for the deceased to return to heaven. Therefore, in addition to riding the dragon, there are also those who resist the tiger and ascend to heaven
![图片[1]-White Tiger Carved Stone-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Wei, Jin, Southern & Northern Dynasties/Sculpture/59210[1024].jpg)
![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
