In East Asian cultures, the Legs mansion (Kuí Xiù) represents wisdom, scholarship and literature. A notable example is a structure known as "Kuiwen Pavilion" (奎文閣) in the many Confucius temples in China and other East Asian countries.
Khuê Văn Các (Pavilion of Kuí's Elegance), which is both the symbol of Hanoi and appears on the one-hundred-thousand Vietnamese dong note.
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