Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 557 Loss of History and Culture

Old Professor Yan told Jiang Yutong that it is easy for people to tell which is the green peacock and which is the blue peacock as long as they are compared.

Looking at the pair of green peacocks in the video, Lao Yan couldn't put it down, just like looking at a treasure.

After all, this is a rare animal with less than [-] left. It is one less time to see it. The next time I see it, I don’t know when it will be, or even if there will be a next time.

Isn’t it? A few years ago, people photographed a white-flag dolphin in the Yangtze River. How many nicknames were given to it by the astonishing Heaven and Man?
"Smiling Angel", "Goddess of the Yangtze River", "Chinese Dolphin" and so on, all show their love for this last remaining creature.

However, just a few years later, the baiji dolphins are now extinct, and the smiling angel is nowhere to be found. This is what happened in recent years. How can it not be embarrassing?

If people continue to ignore it, the remaining green peacocks, which are less than [-], may follow in their footsteps.

Yan Lao told Jiang Yutong: "There is a small thing that you may not have noticed. In 98, Yang Liping, a famous dancer from Yunnan Province, became famous in one fell swoop with the song "Spirit of the Bird". The peacock she imitated was the green peacock. Not these common blue peacocks."

Jiang Yutong was taken aback: "Old Yan, do you even know this?"

Isn't this entertainment gossip?It's still old gossip from 20 years ago.

Old Professor Yan smiled: "I just know a little bit. Oh, it's a pity. At that time in 98, there were a lot of green peacocks, at least more than now. If you want to find green peacocks, it's easy to simulate movements. Now, I'm afraid It's hard to find."

His smile was mostly bitter, and his eyes were full of helplessness.

Jiang Yutong looked at the old professor Yan, feeling a little emotional for a while, what should I say?In such a real society, everyone is very busy, and few people can be so distressed and worried about environmental issues. For a while, she also felt a lot of emotion.

Professor Yan also told her some unpopular knowledge about green peacocks.

In ancient my country, the green peacock used to spread all over the south of the Yangtze River in my country, and it was the prototype of the Chinese divine bird, the phoenix.The phoenix is ​​a non-existent creature. Many paintings of the phoenix are drawn with reference to the peacock.

Because the captured green peacock is often paid tribute to the emperor, it is also called "emperor green peacock".

In Chinese, peacock means green peacock.The bird on the uniform of the third-rank civil servants in the Qing Dynasty is the green peacock.

The green peacock is native to China and Southeast Asia, while the blue peacock is native to India and Sri Lanka and was introduced to China much later.

In ancient China, most Chinese people have never seen blue peacocks, but green peacocks were widely distributed in the hinterland of the Chinese nation.

The blue peacock, also known as the Indian peacock, is the national bird of India.In Hindu mythology, peacocks are the mounts of gods such as Brahma. In Buddhist mythology, there is even the image of Peacock Daming King Bodhisattva. However, it should be noted that the legend of Peacock Ming King, including the entire Buddhist culture, comes from India, not our native China. culture.

The protection levels of these two creatures are also different. The green peacock is listed in the "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (IUCN): endangered species (EN), China's national first-class protected animals, and cannot be domesticated;

The blue peacock is listed in the "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (IUCN): low-risk (LC), a national second-class protected animal, and is one of the special animals supported by the State Forestry Administration. The artificially bred peacock also mainly refers to the blue peacock.Most of the peacocks we see in some parks and zoos are blue peacocks.

In other words, what people see and eat are basically blue peacocks.

That's right, there are really people who raise blue peacocks like chickens, and even put them on the dining table, which only costs a few hundred dollars.There are really a lot of blue peacocks now.

As for the green peacock, people probably can only search for some traces in some historical books.

Professor Yan Lao said that the "Peacock Picture of Apricot Blossom" painted by Lu Ji of the Ming Dynasty in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei can be clearly seen from above. The tall and graceful bird standing under the apricot blossom in the tree is exactly the green bird. Peacock.

The beauty of the green peacock is far inferior to that of the blue peacock.

If you can watch the green peacocks at close range, you will feel their charm more deeply: although it is called "green" peacocks, the feathers on this bird are not only green, it can appear from emerald green to blue-green depending on the angle of light. , to bronze, golden yellow metallic luster that varies endlessly.

It's magical and charming.

The more Professor Yan talked, the more emotional he became. When talking about excitement, he also quoted an ancient poem about peacocks:

"Yue Niao is youthful and good-looking, Qingxuan goes to the house to look at Yui.

You can't paint a suit of gold and emerald, but few come from thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

When silk and bamboo are used to listening, they dance alone, and when they first go up the stairs, they want to fly alone.

Erythrina flowers Xie Fangcao rest, the same nest in the south should look forward to return. "

He clicked his tongue and said in admiration: "Look, Xiao Jiang, 'You can't paint a body of gold and emerald', vividly depicting the characteristics of the green peacock."

Just like the green peacock in the video, it is easy to see that the scale-like feathers on its neck will change from blue-green, bronze to golden with the different angles of sunlight refraction.

It's really a veritable "can't draw".

This is not comparable to the blue peacock.

In fact, in history and culture, the green peacock has always occupied a very important position.In ancient China, from the rivers in the Central Plains to the hills in the South of the Five Ridges, from the lakes and swamps in the Jianghan Plain to the deep mountains and valleys in the south of the colorful clouds, there are beautiful figures of green peacocks.

Therefore, when Chinese culture was in its infancy, it was always praised and carefully described.

The world's largest pheasant once shocked everyone who was lucky enough to see it.

Our ancestors were awed by its beauty from the bottom of their hearts, and they wrote it into poems, painted it into paintings, adorned their clothing, and even burned it into more eternal porcelain.

When Lao Yan said this, the praise in his heart was beyond words, and there was a feeling of great country culture in it.

The deeper the love, the deeper the grief. After he was happy, his face began to feel sad, and he said: "It's a pity, it's a pity. Nowadays, most of us see blue peacocks, and few people have seen real green peacocks."

Why?Not because of the scarcity of the chant.

Even the national treasure giant panda can basically be seen in the larger city parks.And how difficult it is to see a real green peacock.

China is one of the countries of origin of the green peacock. The reason for this situation is that, apart from the dwindling wild population and serious mixed blood in artificial breeding, there is also a very helpless situation: most Chinese people don’t know the green peacock!

Professor Yan took out his mobile phone, which contained some pictures, showed it to Jiang Yutong, and said, "Look, this is an illustration in a Chinese textbook from the 90s, "The Proud Peacock", you can see the problem Already?"

Jiang Yutong took a look at the mobile phone, and said dully, "This... is also a blue peacock."

This is also the blue peacock, the divine bird of India, not our own green peacock.

If she hadn't seen the comparison between the green peacock and the blue peacock before, how could she see the problem?In the illustration, the peacock's neck is blue, and the feathers on the top of the head are spread out, not like the green peacock.

In other words, even in the Chinese textbooks in the 90s, there were only blue peacocks, not green peacocks.It hasn't even gotten people's attention yet.

Basically, many of the images of "peacock" have been replaced by blue peacocks.The world only knows that there are blue peacocks, but not green peacocks.

It is obvious that the green peacock is a native Chinese native species, a sacred bird that belongs to our land of China!
Professor Yan is very sad. He thinks this is a sad loss and mistake in our historical and traditional culture!
Many people can't tell the difference between the blue peacock and the green peacock, which has led to a reduction in the awareness of this species, and they have not really understood the extent to which this species is endangered.

Many years ago, when many zoos in China introduced peacocks, even if there were green peacocks, many of them were not real green peacocks. very strong.

Even now, most of the public still don't understand the living conditions of green peacocks, and they can't tell the difference between blue peacocks and green peacocks.

In most people's minds, a peacock is a peacock, and there seems to be no difference. For example, some people made a peacock-shaped landscape with green plants. Although it is mainly green, the shape is actually a blue peacock.

And no one sees anything wrong with it, no one recognizes it at all.

At present, there are basically no real green peacocks in the major zoos in China, and most of them are blue peacocks; some features.

Some zoos have come up with some stupid ways to house blue peacocks and green peacocks together. Although it will enhance the ornamental effect, hybridization will speed up the degradation of this rare species.

Old Professor Yan lamented: "These blue-green hybrid peacocks have really tarnished the noble blood of the green peacocks!"

Although the tone was a bit sour, the thought of admiring his noble green peacock was clear and moving.

Jiang Yutong was also moved by him, and asked, "Old Yan, what do you think we can do now?"

Facing the fact that there are less than [-] green peacocks in the whole country, most people still don't know that the peacocks they see now are not the same as the peacocks that have been passed down for thousands of years. This is really distressing.

On the computer screen, the video of the pair of green peacocks dancing is playing in an infinite loop. Their beautiful figures, now it seems, are even rarer among the rare.

What to do with this pair of peacocks?Put it back in Yunnan Province?The hometown of the peacock seems to have been there by default.

Old Professor Yan quickly waved his hand and refused: "Don't do it, the green peacocks there are already unsustainable, let them go and wait for the messy blue peacocks to dilute their blood?"

He hopes that this pair of green peacocks can live here, so that more people can see what the green peacocks that have been passed down from history and culture for thousands of years are like.

Don't mention the Maurya Dynasty anymore.

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