Fourth in the Wu Xing series, representing the Gùn (staff or long pole) and Wood element. The stance is sort of Wang Yue Ping Heng ("full moon balance"), but the hooked hand is nonsensical in this stance, I just used it rather than a fist or palm because it looked much nicer. The design for the dress was sketched idly during a Japanese class. The straw hat texture is from an Indonesian straw hat I own. As for the background motif, the border and bamboo were respectively painted in acrylics and watercolour then scanned in and manipulated.

Jing Wei means "Little Bird" but also denotes a mythical bird with an interesting story: "Jing Wei was a Daughter of the ancient emperor Yan and was unfortunately drowned in East China Sea. She was so angry and turned into a mythical bird. She had been trying to fill up the sea with pebbles since then and never stopped. She is the embodiment of the power of determined will. In ancient legend China's Jiaozhou and Shandong peninsula are the result of her working." (from this site)