A statue of Si He Xiang,
i.e.
‘Four-Combination-Elephant’
or the ‘Four-United-Image’,
otherwise
known as the
Four Harmonious Friends
(fig.),
at the
Puning Temple Complex in
Chengde (fig.).
As in the
iconography
of the
Four Harmonious Friends
in Tibet and Nepal
(fig.),
the animals, i.e.
an
elephant, a monkey, a
rabbit, and a bird, are
portrayed supporting one another, with the eldest on top and the youngest below.