It’s crazy when I look at these photos in more detail. This guy has a bat on the top of his cane.
He lives close by to one of the pagodas at lower Big Buddha Hill.
(c) Don Charisma, photos taken in Thailand Nov-2013
Chinese Bat-Man and his Deer
It’s crazy when I look at these photos in more detail. This guy has a bat on the top of his cane.
He lives close by to one of the pagodas at lower Big Buddha Hill.
(c) Don Charisma, photos taken in Thailand Nov-2013
I love him. and I love how people decorated him with flowers and (plastic?) dangling bits.
🙂
I was going to ask you what the bat symbolized but then I read this comment ^^^ Love learning new things everyday!
Yes, my resident Asian expert has filled in the gaps 🙂
Ran through the comments and it seems like your resident Asian expert sounds like me :))
Well, this old man is Longevity in the trio “Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity”. I’ve seen him with deers before because deers are the symbol of longevity as well. The bat is a little foreign to me cuz I don’t speak Chinese. According to the source below, the words for longevity and bats in Chinese are homophones so people associate the images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shou_(character)
I was pretty amused when you called him the Chinese Bat-man :)) and that comment on bat-carrier is fantastic too.
You’d be entirely correct on that, so thanks for that … and thankyou for adding to my posts, it’s most helpful, interesting and enlightening …
Like to try and mix a bit of humour as and when I can think of it, and glad you saw the funnyness in it:)
You finally found a man without a cell phone. Unless the bat is actually a bat-phone 🙂
Could be an ancient communication, you’ve heard of carrier-pigeons, now we have carrier-bats !
Wonder what the symbolism of that one is. lol
I’m waiting for my resident Asian expert to make an appearance, he clarified that the dogs are in fact “Qilin”
Nice pic..
Thanks:)
Looks like he’s ready for xmas 🙂
🙂
I wonder if the bat is symbolic of something? Very cool, regardless! ~SueBee
Hey SueBee, not sure, my resident Asian-expert has yet to tell me, but I would guess so … cheers DC