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This fearsome mythical lion is one of 18 pairs of larger than life statues carved from whole rocks that line the Shandao (Sacred Way) leading to the Ming dynasty tombs at Shisanling to the north-west of the Chinese capital, Beijing.
Photograph taken March 1989.
