Bronze Chicken Sculpture Paperweight and Zodiac Chicken Ink Chinese Ink The ink has cracks. - Design: Paperweight Bronze plate with a chicken sculpture, with the characters "鳴鷄吠狗" (Ming Ji Fei Gou) engraved on the back. Ink Chicken painting with the zodiac chart on the back. - Material: Bronze - Shape: Circular "鳴鷄吠狗" (Ming Ji Fei Gou) is a four-character idiom derived from a phrase in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" which means "The crowing of chickens and the barking of dogs are heard, and the smoke from each house rises for thousands of miles." Meaning: This idiom describes a scene where houses are connected and people live peacefully, so that the crowing of chickens and the barking of dogs can be heard from each other. By extension, it refers to a situation where the world is at peace and people live in tranquility. Thank you for viewing.