Pun Design: Long-tailed Pheasant + Quails

Punning Details:

The combination of the first and third words in ‘chang wei zhi 长尾雉’ for ‘long-tailed pheasant’ is ‘chang zhi’ and it puns on the phrase ‘chang zhi 长治’ for ‘long-term good order (in a country)’. The word ‘an 鹌’ in ‘an chun 鹌鹑’ for ‘quail’ makes a pun on ‘an 安’ for ‘peace’. Thus, these natural motifs form a pun rebus to convey the intended auspicious message.

Also named as ‘Jiu An Chang Zhi 久安长治’

画面要素: 长尾雉 + 鹌鹑

谐音详情: ‘长尾雉’中首尾二字与‘长治’谐音; ‘鹌鹑’中‘鹌’与‘安’谐音.

• Fig 1: porcelain vase, late Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei