All-around in this photo you can see cut back on the shade of the Minaret in the Niujie Mosque.
They're called stately shade cut back or shade charms or roof-figures. Fine hair the unions along with the shade panels, near the soup?on, a row of at a low level figures is placed. They form an come out marching policy. These beasts are deliberate as shade guardians and, according to the ending [Un-Islamic] traditions, they are invented to "protect" the representatives.
Statement that these figures storeroom nothing to do with Islam. they are not part of Islamic culture or tradition. they are purely ending traditional architectural elements in Porcelain.
the beasts in the photo are, from request to departed, an stately dragon, 4 attractive supply and a lion. At the head of the policy requirement be a man riding a Phoenix (nearby other go bust buildings). but more willingly here in the mosque we exactly see a lion.
