Peacock, known as the "king of hundreds of birds", ancient called Kong Jue, Kong bird. Although the peacock rarely appears, there is always a lack of legends on the rivers and lakes. I have to say that from ancient times to the present, peacocks have long been famous in various fields of art, legend and literature. Peacocks, ornithischia, chickadees, pheasants. There are only two kinds of peacocks in the world: blue peacocks and green peacocks. The white peacock generally refers to the mutant species of wild blue peacock that is artificially bred, and the number is rare. The green peacock is distributed in the southern part of Yunnan Province, China, and is a national first-class protected animal; the blue peacock is mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Southeast Asia.
Wen Tingjun once wrote, "The red beads are ripe for the cherries, and the golden-tailed screen peacocks are idle." Gu Quan wrote a "Qulong Mountain Song": "The phoenix cheekbone flows beads, and the peacock tail hair Zhang Cui gai." The "Peacock Diagram" painted by Liu Yu in the Ming Dynasty came to life: "The neck is repaired and the feathers are upturned, and the big tail is patched with gold." From the south, Danshan blue water soars. These verses show the beauty of the peacock.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: According to the "Chronicle" Yun: "The valley Yi people eat a lot, or think that the breast wax tastes like chicken, and can solve hundreds of poisons." Li Shizhen praised "The peacock repels evil and can detoxify poison, great poison, hundred poison, and poison." Whoever eats his flesh will not be effective in taking medicine from then on, and will detoxify him." In fact, peacock dung has the function of detoxifying and diuretic, and is mainly used for the treatment of women's belt down, unfavorable urination, and bad sores. Not only that, peacock meat is tender, delicious taste, there are "old turtles in the water, peacocks in poultry", for high protein, low fat health food.
The blue peacock is cultivated and sold with the approval of the state, so the blue peacock as a edible meat and poultry has no problem at the national policy level. Peacock meat has a much higher protein content than chicken, while fat and cholesterol are more than half that of chicken. And peacock bile is a poison, and very poisonous, it and heding red and green silkworm clams are collectively known as China's three strange poisons, peacock bile is ranked first among the three. In fact, the peacock's gall is the gallbladder of the peacock bird animal, and all the animal gallbladders are poisonous, but the toxicity is not large, and it will not kill people.
"Southern Foreign Body Chronicle" Cloud: "The female has a short tail and no golden green." The male is still small at the end of three years, and two or three feet long in five years. Summer is hair removal and rejuvenation in spring. From the back to the tail there are round lines, five colors of gold, winding like money. "Every April and May when the reproductive season comes, the male peacock often raises the tail feathers high, wide and wide, dazzling, and the reproductive glands in the body continue to secrete sex hormones, which are transmitted to the brain, making a variety of beautiful movements, and staged a "Victoria's Secret". Female peacocks, on the other hand, score according to the vividness of their feather screens and decide which cub to have children with.
In fact, when females choose a mate, the picture is a useful quality or a good quality gene, and they hope to get not a good-looking mate, but a mate with good qualities. If the male peacock has a long tail with bright colors must pay a real price, if the male peacock can still avoid predators, find food to support himself, and strive to survive even if he drags a large and long tail, then he must have a stronger survival gene, which is the female mate selection standard.