Dove

The most common dove in China is the Turtle-dove; it is the symbol of long life. It was an ancient custom to present old persons with a jadestone scepter  one foot long adorned at one end with the figure of a dove. The “pigeon-staff” is a symbol of protracted longevity and filial duty. 

In the Book of Odes are the following lines:
The Turtle-dove is in the mulberry tree, /And her young ones are seven in number; /The virtuous man, the princely one, /Is uniformly correct in his deportment.

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