38093 Longevity

Description

Songhe Yannian, representing longevity, because the pine is evergreen, meaning immortality; crane because of its aura, meaning auspicious; the bat is a homophonic, representing “fu”. Song is the protagonist of the “three friends in the cold”, and loose the longest life expectancy, there is a saying among the folks that “life is not older than Nanshan pine”. Painters of the past dynasties have described magpies with pine as the “Annunciation of the Ten Thousand Years”; narcissus and bamboo with pine have been described as “satisfaction for rich years.”
松鹤延年, 代表长寿, 因松长青, 寓意长生不老; 鹤则因为有灵气, 寓意吉祥; 蝙蝠取谐音, 代表”福”. 松，是“岁寒三友”中的主角，而松的寿命最长，民间就有“寿比南山松不老”的说法。历代的画家把喜鹊配松，喻为“万年报喜”；把水仙与竹配松，喻为“丰年献瑞”