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| | ArtLex on Chinese art |
 | | Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as China's. |
 | | With this thought in mind, know that this survey, as any must be, is tremendously limited in its breadth and depth. |
 | | The emblems reserved for the emperor's ceremonial robes were the twelve imperial symbols seen on this garment: sun, moon, constellation, mountain, pair of dragons, bird, cups, water weed, millet, fire, ax, and the symmetrical "fu" symbol. |
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