The embroiderer practiced innovation and flexible combination of techniques in this series of free-hand embroidery pieces, which are based on the paintings of the famous Ming-and-Qing painter Zhu Da (1626-ca. 1705). As a painter with strong personality who excelled especially in flower and bird painting, in which the painter “never pursued completeness but always end up with completeness based on his unrestrained brushwork and flooding emotions”.
The crafter employed overlapped, short and block shading stitches to illustrate the leisurely expression and posture of the fish in a serene environment.