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Agate Craftwork “Hundred Birds Fly toward Phoenix”

It is a gift presented to President Kim Il Sung by friendship delegation from Heilongjiang Province of China in September Juche 72 (1983).

This gift portrayed various kinds of birds centering on a phoenix were flying in a great tree and twittering. Chinese people have long regarded a phoenix as the primary symbol of happiness and longevity and twitters of birds as the symbols of delight, admiration and wish.