| 单词 | spirit wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspirit wall spirit wall n. (in traditional Chinese architecture) an internal or external wall which screens a gate or other entrance. [In Chinese, these structures are known as yǐnɡbì, literally ‘reflection wall’, and zhàobì, literally ‘wall that reflects’. They are held to prevent the entrance of hostile spirits, which in Chinese tradition move only in straight lines, and are therefore repelled by such barriers.] ΚΠ 1885 Gospel in All Lands Dec. 564/1 Some of the walls in China have painted on them large pictures of dragons. These are called spirit walls. They are built to protect the houses from evil spirits. 1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites ii. 47 Alongside the road, protecting the big houses from wandering devils, were spirit-walls, blank and forbidding. 1995 Mod. Asian Stud. 29 568 It is interesting to note that these hungry ghosts are the very same evil spirits that the feng shui mirrors and spirit walls are designed to keep out of the house. < as lemmas |
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