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You must know Mandarin Duck, right?
Lu Zhaolin's "Chang'an Guyi" "The Mandarin Duck is really enviable, and the double goes to the king to see? ”。 The modern song "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream". In our hearts, the Mandarin duck is a symbol of love. They are inseparable, male left and female right, flying with wings, swimming with water, and perching with wings and necks.
For example, when we were young, we always saw it on our quilts. For example:
On the insole:
So what does the word "Mandarin duck" mean?
In fact, the "duck" represents a male bird;
"Duck" represents a female bird;
Because they often appear in pairs, the word "Mandarin duck" is habitually accepted by everyone.
Mandarin ducks are also known as official ducks, small gamebirds. It is smaller than a duck and is often kept in captivity. The male has brilliant plumage and metallic luster , emerald green plumage on the forehead and center of the head , forming crown feathers with long metallic dark green and dark purple feathers on the hind neck , pure white eyebrow lines on both sides of the head , and pairs of chestnut yellow , upright fan-shaped wings on the wings of the mandarin duck. The tail feathers of the Mandarin duck are dark brown, the upper thorax and thorax sides are purple-brown, and the lower thorax is flanked with two pure white transverse bands. The mandarin duck has a dark red beak and yellowish red feet. Females have grey-brown body feathers with white stripes around and behind the eyes, no crowned wing sails, and pure white ventral feathers. In contrast, female Mandarin ducks are much inferior.
The most interesting feature of the Mandarin duck is that "the stop is coupled, and the flight is in pairs". For thousands of years, the Mandarin duck has always been a beautiful symbol of harmonious coexistence and love between husband and wife, and is also the embodiment of unwavering pure love in Chinese literary and artistic works, which has been praised. This is because the duck prefers to live in pairs of male and female. Once one of them is lost, the other wanders in sorrow at the place of capture or murder, refusing to eat until it dies of hunger and thirst, so the Mandarin Duck is praised as the most loyal companion.
However, according to scientific research, the Mandarin duck is not unique for life, but a typical inconsistency. The ancients always thought that the Mandarin Duck was very loving, but they did not know that the Mandarin Duck was a bird that practiced "polygamy" to the letter, and the male Mandarin Duck not only did not abide by the steadfastness of love, but simply played the role of "playboy". The work of spawning and brooding is left to the female.
Kokoko, again learned a magical knowledge.