Following the flow of migrants and culture to overseas, two kinds of traditional Chinese talismans, stone lions and wayside tablets (shih-kan-tang) with the power to repel demons, arrived and put down new roots in foreign lands.
隨著移民的腳步以及文化的交流，許多中國傳統上用來鎮壓煞氣的厭勝物也傳到海外，石獅與石敢當正是其中大宗。