The blue ground finely worked on the front and back with nine five-clawed long dragons couched in gold-wrapped threads in pursuit of flaming pearls, amidst multi-colored cloud scrolls, bats, and the bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems'), all above floral sprigs and auspicious emblems rising from rolling and crashing waves above the deep lishui band, with blue-edged borders at the cuffs and collar decorated with striding dragons and bats among florets and scrollwork.