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Hundred Children motif

The Hundred Children motif is a whish for many offsprings. Children is a symbol of luck and fertility. In olden China the number of children was important because it guaranteed the perpetual status of the clan. In China a man in bygone days had every justification to have more wives in order to have more children.

See also: Boy

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