Fish algae diagram
After the founding of New China, the goldfish industry also began to recover its prosperity and became an important export product. In 1960, in order to publicize the precious varieties of Chinese goldfish, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was designed by Sun Chuanzhe and issued a special stamp No. 38 goldfish by the Beijing Stamp Factory on Children's Day. The timing of the release is also interesting, on Children's Day. Most of us have an impression of goldfish from a young age. When I was a child, there was an old man selling small red goldfish at the entrance of the kindergarten, and it seemed that there were only dragon eyes and grass gold at that time. However, children do not care about the variety, but they will buy it if they think it is interesting. When it is older, it will upgrade to more expensive varieties. This is the concept of consumption cultivated from childhood, taking advantage of your lack of more things to take you into the pit, and then let you continue to spend money, think about the intentions of adults, and really think about it.
A stall selling goldfish
This set of stamps is the first set of color photocopied stamps in China, which has certain commemorative significance, with a total of 12 stamps. There are two kinds of four-point denominations and eight-point denominations, which in turn introduce the gill pompom, the black-backed dragon's eye, the blister's eye, the red tiger's head, the pearl fish, the blue dragon's eye, the sky fish, the red hat, the purple hat, the red head, the flower dragon's eye, the red dragon's eye, the twelve kinds of goldfish, at that time, there was no Lanshou, Liujin, Tai lion These fish, it looks very ancient.
Xiaobian's grandmother used to work in the post office, and kept the four red dragon eyes, red hats, red heads, and blister eyes, which I had seen when I was a child, and then my grandmother gave it to my brother-in-law, and I never saw it again.
Goldfish stamps
The background of this set of stamps is a painting of goldfish algae, and the background colors are different from blue, yellow, blue, green, blue, gray and purple.
Flipping gill pompoms
Looking at the stamp alone, this gill pompom is still a literary species, with a rounded body, a light yellow body color, a dorsal fin, a ventral fin, and a tail fin that are very long, the gills are rolled up, and the pompoms on the head are not small. Nowadays, gills are less common, and gills are very susceptible to parasites and have been abandoned.
Hanging bubbles of gill pearls
Black-backed dragon's eye
Black-backed dragon eyes were also relatively common in the past, which is what we call iron-clad golden dragon eyes. This dragon's eye is very beautiful in red and black, but it is easier to change color, and it will eventually fade into red. Now the iron-clad gold is popular butterfly tail, like the long skirt tail in the stamp has become non-mainstream.
Golden butterfly tail
Blister eyes
Blister eye goldfish is not a very mainstream goldfish now, because the conditions for raising blister eyes are more demanding, the requirements for water quality are relatively high, people are not very concerned about the cultivation of blister eyes, and now the form of blister eyes is almost the same as forty years ago, the size of the blister eyes in the figure, it looks more plump than the current varieties, it seems that the varieties do not advance and retreat.
blister
Five-flowered yellow blisters
Red Tiger Head
As an egg species, the red tiger head has also been impacted due to the introduction of Lan Shou, because it is strong with Lan Shou, so it has been trying to cultivate better tiger head fish, and now the tiger head goldfish is much more majestic than forty years ago.
Tiger head
Pearl scales
The pearl scales of that time were very different from those of today. When discussing the source of pearl scales with you before, it was mentioned that leather ball pearls were just cultivated in 1960, and the rounded pearl scales did not spread in a large area. From this picture, we can still see the relatively primitive form of the pearl scales, maintaining the basic state of the fish. The fins were also not as short as they are now, with long ventral and caudal fins.
Now pearls
Blue Dragon Eye
Blue Dragon Eye was very popular in the past, because the color of blue and black Dragon Eye is not easy to maintain, and it is easy to change color. Blue Dragon Eye is a goldfish species that can grow to a foot long, giving people a sense of the magnificence of the ink dragon, which was valued by the ancients in the era when the variety was scarce. The dragon's eye in the painting is fat, the tail seems to have the appearance of a butterfly tail, and the eyes are uncommon bulb eyes. It's just that now the enthusiasm of the Blue Dragon Eye has passed, the hobby people have never changed their original intentions, and the attention of the people who are busy has turned to other varieties.
Look at the sky
There are two kinds of eyes in the sky, one is the Beijing species, the other is the Fujian species, the Beijing species is thinner, the Fujian species is fat, no matter which one, the tail is not very long. The picture should be of Fujian species, but the tail is painted a little larger, which seems to be a bit untrue.
Beijing seeds look at the sky
Red Hat
The red hat is now the lion's head species. Previously it was a heavy tail, and the tension of the tail was good. The mushroom is mainly developed on the top of the head, and the two cheeks are underdeveloped. Now there are a lot of this kind of fish on the market, not precious, the better is the Danding, and the higher quality is the Thai lion, the Zhiyuan lion. The cultivation of goldfish is also trendy, especially with international competition, which further stimulates the cultivation of more gorgeous varieties in various countries. If you stagnate and only blindly regard yourself as a ancestor, you will not be able to earn money from foreigners.
Thai lion
Purple hat
The situation of the purple hat is similar to that of the red hat, so I will not repeat it.
Black Tai Lion
Redhead
This red head is rarely seen now, and the common one on the market is the Japanese lion species Danding. This red head was very popular in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. On the one hand, its red head has the meaning of the red top belt, implying the prosperity of the official fortune; on the other hand, his head is even gills are red, looking down from above, like a yuanbao, symbolizing wealth, so it is also named "yuanbao red" (unlike the palace goose, the palace goose is red on the top, and the yuanbao red is also on the top), because it is an egg species, it is also called "egg head red" in Guangzhou. Today, the breed is on the verge of extinction.
The previous egg head was red
Pineapple head
Flower dragon eyes
The flower dragon eye is the red and white dragon eye, and the red and white dragon eye is ordinary, but it is rare to form twelve reds. This has been valued since ancient times. Although there are still twelve reds in the market, the price cannot be raised. People are keen to pursue the panda dragon eye cultivated in recent years. The previous skirt tail and phoenix tail are also not as popular as the butterfly tail.
Panda goldfish
Red and white butterfly tail Ryujin
Red Dragon Eye
Red Dragon Eye is the most common goldfish, as one of the earliest species of goldfish, do not know how to break through, is it to work the volume, or to work other characteristics? I don't know if goldfish lovers will be able to come up with or discover new variants in the future to revitalize China's Dragon Eye.
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