Women’s Water-grass-green Satin Vest with Pomegranate, Peach and Buddha-hands Patterns Details

A new combination of patterns named “three plenties”, motifs of pomegranates, peaches and chayote (a vegetable in the shape of Buddha-hands), were embroidered on this satin vest. All the three vegetables are endowed with auspicious meanings in traditional Chinese culture. Pomegranates symbolize plenty of offspring, just as peaches stand for plenty of longevity and chayote for plenty of fortune. The recurrent pattern of butterflies flying around peony flowers also has an auspicious meaning of everlasting wealth and fortune. In ancient China, such a mix of lucky motifs usually appeared on garments for married or elderly women, wishing them longevity and plenty of fortune as well as offspring.