# Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 25

- Date: 1200s
- Medium: Album; ink on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Painting: 34.3 x 38.4 cm (13 1/2 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange)
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.1.25)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2004.1.25/2004.1.25_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

These twelve figures are personifications of the dizhi 地支, or Earthly Branches. Each is accompanied by its corresponding animal in the Chinese zodiac. The Earthly Branches would normally be accompanied by the ten Heavenly Stems, or tiangan 天干, which suggests a missing leaf.