Legend says that the ancestor of She minority was Pan Hu King. Because of his great contributions on fighting off the enemies, he became the dau
ghter-in-law of the headman of the tribe and married the third princess. At the wedding day of Pan Hu King, the bride's mother gave his daughter a very precious phoenix crown and a phoenix dress decorated with jewels to show her bless to her daughter. After marriage, she gave birth to three sons and one daughter and lived happily. When her daughter got married, beautiful and elegant phoenix magically flew out of mountain (hence this mountain was named Phoenix Mountain, located inside the Guangdong Province now), holding in mouth a very colorful and fancy phoenix dress. Since then, She women have been considering phoenix dress as the most beautiful holy dress that could bring them luck and safety.
The phoenix dress nowadays is embroidered with red, peach red or yellow patterns and more delicate ones are embroidered with gold or silver threads to represent the fancy feathers of phoenixes. The phoenix crown represents the exalted phoenix head. Because phoenixes are the musicians in the fairy world who understand music, phoenix dresses will be covered with tinkly silver adornments, representing the singing of the phoenix.
Phoenix Crown
