Chinese guardian lions standardized and formalized during the Ming and Qing dynasties into more or less its present form. (pinyin:) sì shì sì, shí shì shí, shí sì shì shí sì, sì shí shì sì shí, sì shí sì zhī shí shī zì shì sǐ de. (4 is 4, 10 is 10, 14 is 14, 40 is 40, 44 stone lions are dead.) Chinese guardian lions Chinese guardian lions or Imperial guardian lions, often miscalled "Foo Dogs" in the West, are a common representation of the lion in imperial China. Chinese guardian lions are sometimes referred to in English as shishi, from the
Sharin Foo Sharin Foo Sharin Foo (born November 22, 1973) is a Danish musician and singer playing in the rock group The Raveonettes. On 11 November 1973, Foo was born as Sharin Foo in Emmelev, Djursland, in Denmark. Foo was raised in a hippy commune. Foo's father is musician Kim Tai Foo, a second-generation Danish-Chinese who played in the Danish folk-rock band Djursland Spillemænd. At an early age, Foo spent time in India studying the musical traditions of "dhrupad" and "qawwali". When Foo returned to Denmark, she got involved in the local punk scene and met Sune Rose Wagner in Copenhagen in