Cultural significance of tortoise shells

poetic sentiment

Tortoise shell is one of the images in China's classical poems. The wonderful description of Liu Lanzhi's appearance in Poems of Peacock Flying to the Southeast and Poems of Ancient Poetry as Jiao Zhongqing's Wife by Han Yuefu is a farewell scene, while Fan Qin's love poems also mention "How to comfort others?" "Tortoise shell behind the ear" and "hairpin" are homophonic, meaning separation. Li Bai once wrote that "Tortoise shell is often lonely"; Shen Quanqi's Loneliness describes a young woman's psychological activity of missing her husband, in which she writes: "Yu Jintang, a young woman from the Lujia family, lives in pairs on the tortoise shell beam. Hearing the cold beat of the washing mallet shake the leaves, Liaoyang expedition will go for ten years. The news disappeared in the White Wolf River, and the night in the south of Fengdan became longer. Who says sadness is alone, only seeing moonlight on her loom? " The word "hawksbill banquet" is often used in poetry to describe the delicacy and luxury of the banquet.

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There is also a lovely fountain sculpture named burnside in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. It depicts the image of a boy riding affectionately on a big turtle shell, so the sculpture has the nickname "Turtle Boy". This statue, like the mermaid statue in Copenhagen and the bronze statue of Julian in Brussels, has become the symbol of Worcester. A local music competition named "Turtle Boy Music Award" was held, and some children's stories related to statues were also created.