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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 498492, member: 5833&quot;]From good ol&#039; Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]164232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So , for me, the new mystery is how has the convention in portraying them came to keep Yang Guifei &amp; her flowers, Diaochan &amp; her eclipsed moon, while introducing another who holds a stringed instrument, perhaps to indicate that her voice is more beautiful.&nbsp; In KBE&#039;s version, the remaining lady has both birds &amp; presumably fish; in the other sets this one is variable.&nbsp; Sometimes this one seems to be holding yarn: soft as silk or as fine wool?</p><p><br /></p><p>Guess it&#039;s similar to what happened with cameos over time: after a long period of consistent conventions for depicting various mythological figures, the traditional attributes became muddled &amp; other elements crept in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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