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The three legged golden toad is a mascot in traditional Chinese culture that symbolizes wealth and good luck. Its image is usually a golden toad with only three legs.
In traditional Chinese culture, it symbolizes increasing financial luck, sheltering families, transforming negative energy into financial luck, and making family members engaged in government work mention the importance and promotion of their positions. Many Chinese people place a three legged golden toad ornament at the entrance of their store or at the entrance of their home, hoping that the energy of the three legged golden toad can help them increase their financial luck.
The three legged golden toad is a mascot symbolizing wealth and good luck in traditional Chinese culture. Legend has it that the golden toad used to be an evil toad with four legs, often harming ordinary people. One day, a Taoist Taoist named Liu Hai discovered this and used a strategy to subdue the golden toad. During the fight, one of the hind legs of the golden toad was broken, becoming only three legs. The golden toad, in order to make up for its own sins, began to spit out various gold and silver from its mouth to help the poor. From then on, there was a legend of "Liu Hai Xi Jin Chan", which was also known as the three legged Jin Chan or the lucky toad.
The image of the three legged golden toad is a toad with only three legs. Its back will depict the Big Dipper, lying on various treasures, and holding copper coins in its mouth (some may not have copper coins in its mouth).
The three legged golden toad symbolizes increasing financial luck, sheltering families, transforming negative energy into financial luck, and making family members engaged in government work mention the importance and promotion of their positions. So many Chinese people like to place three legged golden toads in their homes or shops, hoping that their energy can help them increase their financial luck.
The placement method of the three legged golden toad is also regular. There are two common types of three legged golden toads, one is holding money in its mouth. This type of three legged golden toad represents the meaning of spitting out wealth, and its head must face into the room, indicating that the three legged golden toad's wealth luck has been spit out into the house.
Another type is the three legged golden toad with no money in its mouth, which symbolizes absorbing wealth. This type of three legged golden toad must face its head towards the door in order to absorb wealth from outside into its own home.