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Five Poisonous Creatures

The Five Poisonous Creatures are the snake, the centipede, the toad, the scorpion and the lizard. This theme when occuring in decoratins is associated with the Duanwujie festival which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, of which themes many relates to the desire to combat evil forces and poisonous creatures.

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