Note * — ORIENTAL STORIES
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The most common decorations of rooms, halls, and temples in China are ornamental scrolls or labels of coloured paper, or wood, painted and gilded, and hung over doors or windows, and inscribed with a line or couplet conveying some allusion to the circumstances of the inhabitant, or some pious or philosophical axiom. For instance, a poetical one is recorded by Dr. Morrison:
"From the pine forest the azure dragon ascends to the milky way," typical of the prosperous man arising to wealth and honours.