Hanging panel of embroidered red satin in coloured silks (mostly green, blue, black and white, with touches of red, pink and yellow), and silver-gilt thread in satin and stem stitches and laid and couched work. Lined with pink cotton.

Depicts at the top the Emperor Ta Shun, who started life as a husbandman, fisher and potter. His father and stepmother treated him cruelly until at last he was forced to leave home. He went into the Li mountains to cultivate the land and his filial piety was rewarded by elephants who turned up the soil for him with their tusks and birds who weeded his fields. By the side of this scene is an inscription worked in black. Below is Wên Ti, founder of the Han dynasty, who succeeded to the throne in 179 BC. In his youth he tended his mother during a sickness which lasted three years. All this time he tended his mother during a sickness which lasted three years. All this time he never left her apartment for more than a few minutes, nor even changed his clothes, but constantly waited upon her himself. He is shown bringing a cup to his mother in a pavilion in a garden.