Lo Ka Yu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 334-341). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Lo Ka Yu. / 論文擇要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Table of Content --- p.iv / List of Figures --- p.vi / List of Tables --- p.xv / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Questions raised --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Literature in Chinese wood carving and symbolic language --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3 --- Methodology and field work --- p.26 / Chapter 1.4 --- Content of the thesis --- p.29 / Jixiang 吉祥 carvings --- p.30 / Chapter 2.1 --- An exhibition of wishes --- p.30 / Chapter 2.2 --- Chinese: People of symbols --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3 --- Chinese Sense of Auspiciousness --- p.37 / Chapter 2.4 --- Chinese House: symbols and jixiang 吉祥 --- p.41 / Chapter 2.5 --- Jixiang 吉祥 motifs in wood carvings --- p.44 / Chapter 2.6 --- "Motifs, symbols and symbolic language" --- p.47 / Domestic Decorations --- p.55 / Chapter 3.1 --- Tai Fu Tai 大夫第，San Tin 新田 --- p.57 / Chapter 3.2 --- "No. 123 village house, San Tin 新田" --- p.104 / Chapter 3.3 --- Ching Shu Hin 清暑軒，Ping Shan 屏山 --- p.107 / Chapter 3.4 --- "No. 93 village house, Shui Tsan Tin Tsuen 水盞田村" --- p.141 / Chapter 3.5 --- "No. 32&33 village houses, Ha Tin Liu Ha 下田寮下" --- p.143 / Ceremonial Buildings --- p.147 / Chapter 4.1 --- Man Ancestral Hall 文氏宗祠，San Tin 新田 --- p.149 / Chapter 4.2 --- Man Lun Fung ancestral hall 麟峰文公祠，San Tin 新田 --- p.155 / Chapter 4.3 --- Kun Ting Study Hall 覲廷書室，Ping Shan 屏山 --- p.171 / Chapter 4.4 --- Wai Hing Study Hall 渭卿書室，Ping Shan 屏山 --- p.198 / Chapter 4.5 --- Yan Dun Kong Study Hall 仁敦岡書室，Ping Shan 屏山 --- p.201 / Chapter 4.6 --- Sin Sui Study Hall 善述書室，Lung Yeuk Tau 龍躍頭 --- p.217 / Religious Buildings --- p.246 / Chapter 5.1 --- Tung Shan Temple 東山古廟，San Tin 新田 --- p.248 / Chapter 5.2 --- Kwan Tai Temple 關帝古廟，Tai O 大澳 --- p.251 / Chapter 5.3 --- "Yeung Hau Temple 楊侯古廟, Tai O 大澳" --- p.262 / Symbolic Language of Wood Carvings --- p.277 / Chapter 6.1 --- Symbols - pictorial vocabularies --- p.277 / Chapter 6.2 --- Symbolic meanings --- p.284 / Chapter 6.3 --- Reading the Symbolic language --- p.287 / Chapter 6.4 --- Dynamics of Symbolic Language --- p.312 / Conclusion --- p.316 / Appendix I --- p.319 / Appendix II --- p.320 / Appendix III --- p.321 / Appendix IV --- p.323 / Appendix V --- p.326 / Appendix VI --- p.327 / Bibliography --- p.334 / Manuscripts before 1911 --- p.334 / Works after 1911 --- p.336 / Other References --- p.341