Workers are plastering gold foils onto the phoenix on the wall-painting, which was completed on Sunday, September 9, 2007. [Photo:cnhubei.com]

Artists in central China's Hubei Province added their final touch to a mural for a local theater on Sunday, reports the Hubei Daily.

The wall-painting at Qintai Grand Theatre, features an ancient legendary phoenix, which is known as an auspicious "nine-headed bird", symbolizing both the province and its people. The mural is 3.11 meters in height and 4.8 meters wide.

(CRI.cn September 10, 2007)