A cicada is an emblem of eternal youth and happiness, as well as life after death. Its association with immortality is why many keep cicadas as pets. 蟋蟀(xī shuài)— Cricket Crickets signify the summer season, as well as a fighting spirit. 蚱蜢(zhà měng)— Grasshopper Another popular ...
DRAGON - represent the untamed natural world, a violent primeval creature. It represents the bestial element which must be defeated with strength and discipline. The Satanic element. However, in the Occidental world, the dragon is associated with happiness, produces the potion of immortality, and ...
Some eventually posited an afterlife elsewhere, in heaven, as astral deities, but, as Yu Ying-shih’s thesis (Yu 1962) showed, most notions of “immortality” envisioned instead of having long lives enjoying earthly pleasures. (A later publication, in 1965, supposedly a synopsis of the thesis...