Five Phoenixes in Garden Chinese Yellow Floral タイル

Digital elaboration from a pictorial Chinese tapestry by Bulgan Lumini. Large pictorial silk tapestries such as this one were mostly woven in the imperial workshops in Suzhou,. The bright yellow background, a color exclusive to the emperor, further confirms its imperial origins. The five phoenixes probably refer to the five species of this auspicious bird in Chinese myths. and the set could represent the five ideal relationships )in Confucianism: between father and son, husband and wife, emperor and official, senior and youth, and among friends