Description
A beautiful amulet featuring a lustrous yellow jasper carving of a bat biting on a coin and flanked by Pak Choy and tied with a red silk cording accented with a mystic knot to symbolize the abundance of great fortune, prosperity, and wealth luck. In traditional China, the bat is a popular auspicious symbol of good luck and wealth because the sound for Bats in Chinese, ‘Fuk’ is similar to good fortune and happiness. One can often see symbols of bats on decorative windows, doors, and even the floor in old Chinese houses. The Chinese cabbage is known as “pak choi” or “Pak choy” in Cantonese which could literary being translated to mean “100 types of prosperity luck”. This is why the Pak Choi has become the favorite display item among the Cantonese-speaking people in Hong Kong and Guangzhou Province in China.
