This Phoenix, known to the Chinese as Feng Huang, symbolizes virtue, grace and prosperity. The Phoenix represents the union of opposites, yin and yang, both male and female.

Unlike the western phoenix, the Chinese phoenix is not born again from its ashes. It represents the light of the sun and of the moon and is the bird of the southern sky. Its song is said to have been the basis of the five cardinal notes of Chinese melody and one of the four creatures that created the world (the other three being the dragon, the unicorn and the tortoise).

Notice the use of gold flake embedded in resin that gives reflectiveness to the calligraphic signature, the feathers and the clouds of the sky.