Fenghuang Shorts
Description: Fenghuang, China travel illustration — a Chinese river town of wooden stilt houses crowding both banks under red lanterns. A retro flat-design souvenir for travelers who love Fenghuang and exploring the world. Perfect for wanderlust, vacation memories and lovers of beautiful European and world towns.
Description: In Japan, as earlier in China, the mythical Phoenix was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. This mythical bird represents fire, the sun, justice, obedience, fidelity, and the southern star constellations. According to legend (mostly from China), the Hō-ō appears very rarely, and only to mark the beginning of a new era -- the birth of a virtuous ruler, for example. In other traditions, the Hō-ō appears only in peaceful and prosperous times (nesting, it is said, in paulownia trees), and hides itself when there is trouble. As the herald of a new age, the Hō-ō decends from heaven to earth to do good deeds, and then it returns to its celestial abode to await a new era.
