Song, "Headdress Imagery and Sacred Order," Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, 2026

A peer reviewed article in the journal Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, an iconological study of the Chaoyuan Tu mural in the Sanqing Hall of Yongle Palace, arguing that the headdresses worn by its painted deities form a deliberate symbolic system encoding the hierarchical order of the Daoist pantheon, alongside the mural's costume system, line technique, color palette and overall composition. Its strength is peer review and a scholarly focus specifically on this mural's own iconographic construction. Its limit is that this atlas could verify its bibliographic record, journal, DOI and published abstract directly, but the publisher's full text sat behind an access wall not reachable during research, so it is cited for the fact of sustained scholarly attention to this specific mural and for its published abstract's own findings, not for claims beyond those.