The phoenix bird pattern includes phoenix patterns and various bird genus patterns, and the features are relatively image. The earliest bird patterns were found on the jade artifacts of the Neolithic Age, but the bronze ornamentation in the early and middle stages of the Shang Dynasty rarely used birds as the decorative theme. By the end of the Shang Dynasty and the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze statues appeared in bronze ornaments. From the early Western Zhou Dynasty to Mu Wang and Gong Wang, some people called it the phoenix era.

The phoenix is the ideal god of the feathers and the crown of the bird. Others have various kinds of birds with long and short tails, crowns, horns or eagle owls and dragonflies.