{"id":4512,"date":"2012-01-20T07:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T07:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2012-01-20T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T09:59:31","slug":"chnes-year-of-the-dragon-and-the-year-of-the-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Year of the Dragon and the international year of the Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This year is the Chines Year of the Dragon and it is also the International Year of the Bat<\/p>\n

I just loved this card<\/p>\n

\"\"
\n<\/a>. Bats are a sign of good fortune in China and nd were often embroidered onto the Emperor’s robes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>nto the Emperor’s robes.<\/p>\n

A bat (fu \u8760) is a visual pun or rebus for “good fortune” or happiness (fu \u798f) because both characters have exactly the same pronunciation.<\/big><\/p>\n

The “five bats” represent the “Five Blessings<\/a>“, also known as the “Five Happinesses” or “Five Good Fortunes”.\u00a0 The “five blessings” are longevity (\u5bff), wealth (\u5bcc), health and composure (\u5eb7\u5b81), virtue (\u4fee\u597d\u5fb7), and the desire to die a natural death in old age (\u8003 \u7ec8\u547d).<\/big><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Phoito Jude Hirstwood<\/p><\/div>\n

It was also used\u00a0 as a wall decoration . This example is from a palace in Bangkok<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year is the Chines Year of the Dragon and it is also the International Year of the Bat I just loved this card . Bats are a sign of good fortune in China and nd were often embroidered onto … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,44],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-year-of-the-bat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}