CHINA.

CHINA. Or, a Chinese dragon azure, garnished gules, on each foot five distinct claws.

Note. — " It is said that, by a standing law of the empire, no mandarin or nobleman, on pain of death, shall have any more than four claws to each foot of the dragon which he hath on his clothes, or on his shield of arms."

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