Chinese guardian lions However, Chinese reference to the guardian lions are seldom prefixed with 佛 or 福, and more importantly never referred to as "dogs". Reference to guardian lions as dogs in Western cultures may be due to the Japanese reference to them as "Korean dogs" (狛犬・高麗犬) due to their transmission from China through Korea into Japan. It may also be due to the misidentification of the guardian lion figures as representing certain Chinese dog breeds such as the Chow Chow (鬆獅犬, Pinyin: sōngshī quǎn, lit. "puffy-lion dog") or Pekingese (獅子狗; Pinyin: Shīzi Gǒu, lit. "lion dog"). The lions are traditionally carved from
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