Stone lions--usually in pairs comprising a male lion playing with a ball and a lioness with a cub--are seen in China as having the power to drive away evil and attract prosperity and good fortune, and they have long stood outside the gates of the homes of rich and noble families, in the courtyards of high officials 'residences and on either side of the incense burners outside temples.
在中國被視為具有辟邪驅魔、招祥納福功能的石獅，長久來站立大戶人家門外、官宦人家庭院、拱立廟前香爐兩旁。