Cabbage

Cabbage (pronounced baicai 白菜)because of its green (青) and white (白)colour, is used to convey the meaning of qingbai (清白)ie purity.  Sometime the cabbage and the turnips (pronounced wuiqng 芜青) are portrayed together to mean qingbai chuan jia (清白传家) ie pureness of character as a family heirloom.  The presence of a dragonfly (qingting 蜻蜓)grasshopper further enhanced the meaning.

Cabbage is sometime portrayed with one of the twelve animals of the chinese zodiac.  Again is plays on the similarity of pronunciation cai (菜)and cai(财)meaning wealth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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