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sons!’ – ‘sons’ here in the sense of ‘seed’. The word bo is also phonetically the same as
bo (also read bai) = earl, count: the picture would then symbolise the wish that the
recipient should attain to high rank.
Cypress seeds are supposed to have good curative properties; if you keep on chewing
them, your hearing and eyesight will improve.