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small images representing the 60 cycles ^ [[or years]] of life.  If you wish good luck or freedom from disease you buy charms for the idol representing your own age.  Rice paper painting is another show place of Canton.  The paper however is made from an ivy & not from rice at all.  It is however beautifully white & the paintings are in brilliant water colors.  The conventional Chinese landscape are sold here in a foot square size.  The Chan ancestral temple is a new one built of carved granite.  Some of the granite pillars are elaborately carved into chickens snakes & animals of grotesque shapes.  Two granite lions at the entrance exhibit a trick of the sculptor common here.  In the open mouth are [[strikethrough]] held [[/strikethrough]]