Chinese Tarot — Китайское Таро

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Chinese Tarot Depicts 

0 — Fool The Fool Identified in the LWB only as The Fool, this is possibly an illustration of Ji Gong, «the mad monk» 

1 — Magician The Magician Again, the LWB does not give any better identification, but from the flaming sword and bowl, it seems to me that this is illustrating the Chinese equivalent of prestidigitation rather than magick. 

2 — High Priestess High Priestess A Buddhist abbess 

3 — Empress The Empress An Empress; LWB calls attention to peony and phoenix details 

4 — Emperor The Emperor An Emperor; LWB calls attention to two five-clawed dragons 

5 — Hierophant Heavenly Master Chang Tao Ling, the founder of the Taoist sect known as the Celestial Masters 

6 — Lovers The Lovers The two He-he, the gods of marriage. They are heavenly twins, and their name means ‘togetherness’ or ‘harmony, concord’. In addition to the two boys with shoulder-length hair, the lotus, bats, steaming bowl are all found in this image. Lotus (he) expresses the wish for ‘heart and harmony shared’, and the bats, ‘good fortune’. 

7 — Chariot The Chariot A warrior in a dragon drawn chariot. 

8/11 — Strength 8 — Strength Wu Sung, a legendary tiger slayer from the Sung dynasty 

9 — Hermit The Hermit A Hermit 

10 — Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune Ba gua (8 trigrams) with taiji (yin-yang symbol) in the center, surrounded by tiger, phoenix, dragon and tortoise 11/8 — Justice 

11 — Justice The bodhisattva Wei T’o in full armor 

12 — Hanged Man Hanging Ghost A hanged ghost, or hungry ghost. When a person (often a woman) had no recourse to get justice, after committing suicide her ghost could go for vengeance. The ghosts of drowned and hanged persons are often looking for substitutes. 

13 — Death Death Yama, King of Hell in Buddhism 14 — Temperance Temperance A Buddhist monk in meditation in front of a huge bell 

15 — Devil The Devil Pan Guan, the Prime Minister of Hell under Yama, has two lackeys named Niutou (Cow Head) and Mamian (Horse Face). These «terrible twins» are pictured on this card. 

16 — Tower The Tower Lei Kung, the god of thunder with his drums and hammers and his wife, T’ien Mu, the goddess of lightning with her mirrors. 

17 — Star The Star Shou-Xing, the God of Longevity appears on this card with peaches (symbol of longevity or immortality), deer (lu, homonym to good income, and another symbol of longevity) and cranes (yet another symbol of longevity). 

18 — Moon The Moon Chang-e, the Moon Goddess 

19 — Sun The Sun Hou Yi, the heroic archer who shot down nine of the ten suns that used to be in the sky. 

20 — Judgement Confucius Confucius, or Kong Zi, creator of the Confucian moral code, xiao, which had such an enduring effect on Chinese culture. 

21 — World The Universe Kuan Yin (or Guan Yin), the goddess of mercy. Interestingly (and parenthetically), she was originally the male buddhist saint Avalokitesvara, who is the Buddhist saint incarnated in the Dalai Lama. 

2001, 2003 Joan Cole