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The fenghuang's body symbolizes the celestial bodies: the head is the sky, the eyes are the sun, the back is the moon, the wings are the wind, the feet are the earth, and the tail is the planets. [2] The fenghuang is said to have originated in the sun. [2] Its body contains the five fundamental colors: black, white, red, yellow, and green. [2]
Fenghuang, Tang dynasty. Fenghuang symbolizes everything good and everything beautiful, [30] peace, good fortune, and feminine beauty. [21] The five virtues of the fenghuang are righteousness, humanity, chastity, fairness and sincerity. [30] It is often found on the clothing of women. [21]
Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including a season of the year, an emotion, virtue, and one of the Chinese "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). Each has been given its own individual traits, origin story and a reason for being.
Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology; Four Perils; Four Symbols, also called Sixiang, four legendary animals that represent the points of the compass.
"After the color image is established, the black silver-based image is dissolved away, leaving the color behind." #28 The Cathedral, Amsterdam, Holland Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
Onocentaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a donkey and is often portrayed with only two legs. Ophiotaurus – A creature that has the upper body of a bull and the lower body of a snake. Peryton – A deer with the wings of a bird. Sea goat – A creature that is half-goat half-fish.
Tang dynasty tomb figure, sancai horse, 7–8th century, also using blue, as on the saddle. Sancai (Chinese: 三 彩; pinyin: sāncǎi; lit. 'three colours') [1] is a versatile type of decoration on Chinese pottery and other painted pieces using glazes or slip, predominantly in the three colours of brown (or amber), green, and a creamy off-white.
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