Bixi

The Stone-Tortoise Son

Tortoise-like dragon son of immense strength, carved beneath memorial steles.

Bixi, also called Baxia, is the tortoise-shaped son of the dragon renowned for carrying great weights. The stone tortoises beneath memorial steles are his likeness, supporting the words of emperors and scholars for centuries. As the steadiest of the dragon’s nine sons, he turns myth into architecture — endurance carved in stone.