it is written that a flock of cranes hovered around and perched on one of the palace buildings. To commemorate this auspicious omen, Huizong composed a poem for the event.
References
This image appears on page 151 of Patricia Ebrey's Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Also see R. M. Barnhart's Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting page 123.
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