Successive years of harvest	Good luck in every thing

The fish-patterned carvings represent good luck, wealth and happiness, and when placed together with a lotus, it means "successive years of harvest."

The pattern featuring a carp leaping in the water points to a carp leaping into the dragon 's gate, symbolizing promotion and advancement in one's official career.

Double lions mean "good luck in every thing," while a lion with a ribbon on its head means "non-stop good luck."

Liu Hai playing with the Golden Toad	"Fu" in font of eyes

In the pattern featuring a little girl scattering golden threads and playing with a three-legged toad, the golden threads represent riches and honor, while the toad is seen as a symbol of fertility.

The bat is a symbol of fu (happiness). The five-bat pattern means wufu (five happiness), namely, longevity, wealth, happiness, virtue and health. Sometimes, the pattern featuring a bat in front of some ancient Chinese coins is carved. As stated before, the bat symbolizes fu, while money, pronounced qian, is equivalent to front. The hole in the coin's center symbolizes the eye. Read as a whole, it means fu is right in front of the eyes.

Deer, pronounced lu , symbolizes wealth. Therefore, when the pattern featuring bat, peach and deer signals happiness, longevity and wealth.

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