Purple silk satin headdress or hood embroidered with birds and fowl of air, land, and sea (phoenix, peacocks, egrets (cranes?), ducks) and the flowers of the seasons (lotus, peony, prunus, also perhaps chrysanthemum, dianthus, wisteria) also bamboo shoots, willow, lingzhi (mushroom of immortality) and butterflies. Multiple colors of silk thread used including blues, greens, yellow, golds, purples, pinks (corals), peach, brown, white, black, etc. using satin stitch, knotted stitch, stem stitch, couched stitches, encroaching satin stitch. The hood is finished in the front with a band cut into mushroom-shaped forms on the top edge. The band has a white silk ground embroidered in multiple colors of silk and metallic-wrapped threads in flowers, pavilions, and butterflies within cartouches set into a maze formed by couched gold metallic-wrapped threads. The wan symbol also appears in the background. The shaped band is outlined in purple soutache and blue silk with each mushroom shape embroidered with a bat. The lower border of the hood has a lavender silk ground outline or piped in gold silk and worked in couched gold metallic threads and multiple colored silk threads in images of peacocks, birds, and four lobed flowers. The hood is finished at the bottom with green netting 3-1/2 to 4" long from which hang blue silk tassel 4-1/2" to 5" long with gold metallic wrapped threads around their tops. Two streamers of blue silk (27-28" long) are attached to the hood at front. These end in mushroom shapes and are ornamented with several rows of patterned silk ribbons. The hood is lined in a rose silk (bad condition) and has a heavy buckram inner lining and padded interior headband covered with white satin.