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Chinese Rock Giant and Rockeries or Ballast, another charm of Wat Pho tour.
Not only the charming Reclining Buddha, the beautiful rockeries and rock
giants also fascinate the tourists. All Chinese stony or cement rock giants and
rockeries found as gate guardians and in the parks, were ballast from the ancient
trading travels to China. It was an intelligence of the ancient Thai applying these
ballast for decorations in many places of this monastery.
"Lan Than" or Rock Giant with weapons represents nobleman warriors in Chinese
opera style clothes. The giant with a looking down fierce-face, holding a weapon in
on hnd and wearing a tight suite of armor, can be found as gate guardians. They
were both high-rank soldiers and combatants.
Chinese Giants in European cloths. They are Marco Polo, the first Europeans
visiting China and introducing European tradition to Chinese. There are 4 pairs of
Marco Polo.
Chinese Monk is a happy and calm-face rockery in long cloak and shoes, and
wearing a string of beads on his neck.
Philosopher is a good-humoured rockery wearing a folded-end top-hat. He looks
like a young knowledge aristocrat, but without beard, wearing a long cloak and
shoes, holding a fan in one hand and some hold a book.
Civil or Workman is normally a long-beard old man, wearing a straw hat and
holding some tools in one hand, such as net or digging tool.
Chinese Ladies can be found in many hairstyles, putting-up or covered with silk
cloth. Their dresses are long cloaks and shoes.
Lion Mouthing a ball as a decoration at the stairs base, can be found in many
sizes. You can roll the ball in his open mouth too.
These Chinese rockeries, both in human being shape and animals or objects such
as stupas, drum, horses and cows, decorated in courtyard and all parks not only
show the Chinese arts but there is also life philosophical attitude hidden in all works.
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