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The Chinese word for lion (statues included) is shi 獅 or shishi 獅子, but there was another creature that appeared in China at around the same time called the xiezhi 獬豸. At some point between the third and seventh centuries, paired stone xiezhi also made their way to Korea, where the name was pronounced haetae or haechi .

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Taking 20 people more than 3 years, a single tree trunk has been carved into a giant lion titled Oriental Lion.Sculptor Dengding Rui Yao led the team in carving out the enormous redwood trunk, which is now located in Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province.

Shishi - Lion Protector in Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism

Also known as Koma-inu 狛犬 (lion dog) in Japan Origin = China & Korea Wooden shishi carvings are commonly used as architectural elements, placed under the eaves of both Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples to ward off evil spirits. Also, a pair of stone shishi statues (one with mouth open, the other closed)

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Chinese guardian lions - Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia

However, Chinese reference to the guardians lion are seldom prefixed with 佛 or 福, and more importantly never referred to as "dogs". Reference to guardian lions as dogs in Western cultures may be due to the Japanese reference to them as "Korean dogs" (狛犬・高麗犬) due to their Transmission from China through Korea into Japan.

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