The meaning and symbol of the panda as a mascot

Allegory and Symbolism of Panda as Mascot

Allegory and Symbolism of Panda as Mascot, I believe we all know that panda is a national treasure. Giant pandas have survived on earth for at least 8 million years, and many events in our country will also use the panda as a mascot, below to understand the meaning and symbol of the panda as a mascot.

The fables and symbols of the panda as a mascot1

1, the panda has a beautiful symbol of peace and unity; the panda also symbolizes the harmonious coexistence of man and nature; from the world, the panda symbolizes China, with a very high degree of representative significance, because the giant panda is the national treasure of China. The symbolism of the panda is usually due to the fact that pandas are really gentle and quite rare among animal species.

2, the giant panda has survived on Earth for at least 8 million years, known as the "living fossil" and "China's national treasure", is the ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), is the world's flagship species for the protection of biodiversity, the giant panda is a species endemic to China. Giant pandas are endemic to China, and their main habitats are the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. The giant panda is a highly endangered species.

3, the giant panda has more aliases, such as Huabiong, Bamboo Bear, Silver Dog and Big Raccoon. Silver dog, this is because the local name of the red panda is called the golden dog, the corresponding panda body color white and called it silver dog. The Bamboo Bear is named after its main diet of bamboo, which resembles a bear. The Chinese bear indicates that it is a rare and exotic animal specialty of the Chinese nation.

Cultural Symbolism of the Panda

The panda symbolizes China. The panda also symbolizes the harmony between man and nature. The panda is a symbol of friendship, reconciliation and even the normalization of diplomatic relations. Giant pandas as China's national gift to the Chinese people's friends, to promote cultural exchanges between China and the world has played an irreplaceable role.

Cultural Symbolism of Pandas

Pandas have survived on Earth for at least 8 million years, and are known as living fossils and Chinese national treasures. Giant pandas are endemic to China and are ambassadors for WWF.

The pandas' main remaining habitat is the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu in China. Their main food is bamboo, and they are a highly endangered species.

Panda as a mascot moral and symbol2

What is the moral of the panda

1, the panda symbolizes China, it is the national treasure of our country, with representative significance;

2, allegory of political something, pulling together the friendly relations between countries;

3, the panda itself is a very mild animal, implying peace, unity;

4, the panda symbolizes the harmony between man and nature **** survival;

5, given to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, implying the promotion of cross-strait exchanges and strengthen the unity of the people.

Symbolism of the Giant Panda

(a) for the "benevolent" gentleman

Confucianism is the main body of traditional culture. The core of Confucianism is ren. What is benevolence? "Fan Chi asked Ren, and Zi said: love people". The idea of benevolence is perfectly demonstrated in the giant panda.

Round white face, slow demeanor, looks so naive. Mild temperament, rarely active attacks. The peaceful appearance, the naive demeanor, the gentle disposition, isn't it exactly the image of Confucius and Mencius, the benevolent ones?

(2) Vegetarian Buddhist life

Buddhist culture is an important part of traditional culture. Compassion is the fundamental spirit of Buddhism, and the precept of non-killing reflects the thoroughness of Buddhist compassion. In order to practically fulfill the precept of not killing, Chinese Buddhists stipulate that they do not eat meat but only vegetarian. These are fully expressed in the giant panda. Their peaceful appearance, docile nature, and the fact that they eat bamboo and do not kill, like a kind-eyed Bodhisattva, fully embodies the spirit of Buddhist compassion.

(3) "Bamboo hermits"

Taoist culture is an important pillar of traditional culture. Taoism is the only indigenous ethnic religion in China. Taoist culture is rooted in the thought of Laozhuang, with nature, female softness and non-competition as the basis. Zhuang Zi focuses on the transcendence of the mind, pursuing the free realm of "no action, no achievement, no name". From the giant panda, we can see the figure of Lao Zhuang, and the combination of giant panda and water, snow, bamboo is more prominent embodiment of Taoist style.

Calm and peaceful, calm and unhurried demeanor, walking, sitting and lying down everywhere free and easy, a transcendent, quiet and relaxed demeanor. Especially when eating bamboo leaning on the tree and sit, or even lie down directly, eat enough on the steep ground and lie down, no matter how noisy the outside world, it is to hear, turn a blind eye, as if no one else. From it, see is not exactly the so-called "bamboo hiding hermit, free than Zhuang Zhou"?

In short, the giant panda fully embodies the benevolence of Confucianism, the charity of Buddhism, and the transcendence of Taoism. Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, the three core ideas in the pandas ` concentrated embodiment, but also expresses the traditional culture of the two characteristics:

First, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, the three integration of each other complementary, indispensable;

Second, successive generations of literati and elegant people tend to the three schools of thought, the rule of Confucianism to the world to the Buddhist old man of the study of the cultivation of the heart.

Thus, from the perspective of ideology and culture, pandas are not only able to represent traditional culture, but also the most suitable to represent traditional culture.

Habitat of the Giant Panda

The giant panda inhabits the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China in the deep valleys of the high mountains, for the windward side of the southeast monsoon, the climate is warm, cool and humid, and its humidity is often more than 80%, and they are a moisture-loving animal. Giant pandas live in the `6 narrow strip of land, including the Minshan Mountains, Qionglai Mountains, Liangshan Mountains, Daxiangling, Xiaoxiangling and Qinling Mountains and several other mountain systems, spanning 45 counties (municipalities) in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gan provinces, with a habitat area of more than 20,000 square kilometers and a population of about 1,600, of which more than 80% are distributed in Sichuan. The areas where they are active are mostly in the depression, mountain hollows, river valley terraces, etc., generally in the gently sloping terrain below 20°. These places have lush forests, good bamboo growth, relatively stable temperatures, good hiding conditions, and abundant food and water resources.

Giant pandas live in dense bamboo forests at an altitude of 2,600 to 3,500 meters, where the air is thin and cloudy all year round, and the temperature is below 20° Celsius. A number of other factors also affect the distribution and density of giant pandas in the wild: the distribution of bamboo, terrain, water sources, the availability of hiding places and nests for nursing cubs, and mountainous terrain. Human interference is the main factor affecting the distribution of giant pandas today.

Giant pandas are not afraid of cold and humidity, and never hibernate. Even when the temperature is -4 to 14 degrees Celsius, they still walk through the bamboo bushes, which are thick with snow. They are also not afraid of humidity, always love to live in the shade and humidity of more than 80% humidity.

Behavioral Characteristics of Giant Pandas

Giant pandas spend half of their day eating, and the remaining half of their day sleeping. In the wild, pandas sleep for two to four hours between every two meals, lying flat, sideways, prone, stretched out or curled up in a ball are their preferred way of sleeping. Inside the zoo, keepers feed them regularly twice a day, so the pandas spend the rest of their time resting. Even when they are sleeping pandas look cute. They are very flexible and can put their bulky bodies into a variety of positions. Their favorite position is with their legs propped up on a tree and their hands covering their eyes.

The most adorable feature of the giant panda is its chubby body and its slow, inward-facing walk. This is because they live in an environment where there is plenty of food and no natural enemies, so there is no need to move very fast. However, it is this slow movement that enables him to conserve his energy for low energy foods. They also sometimes climb trees to scout out situations, escape intruders, or take naps.

Giant pandas are good tree climbers and playful. Tree-climbing behavior is usually a way for the weaker ones to avoid the stronger ones when they are close to courtship, or to escape from danger, or when they meet each other. Pandas sometimes go down to the valleys, stringing into mountain villages or houses, treating pots and pans and buckets, especially round vessels, as toys, and abandoning them in the mountains after playing with them. Sometimes they also and sheep, pigs and other domesticated livestock goodwill, with the same food and living together.

Usually, giant pandas are always very gentle, and when they first meet people, they often use their front paws to cover their faces, or put their heads down and do not show their true faces. They rarely take the initiative to attack other animals or people, and when they meet by chance in the wild, they always adopt an evasive approach. But when the mother, its little baby is sacrosanct, even if it is caring to visit, but also will anger the mother angry, teeth and claws, hands and feet. Sometimes they also love to do some grooming and other activities to seek appropriate. Can be like a cat to straighten the body, the front is stretched out, the back half of the body raised, so that the body flexible stretch, or after waking up, the front limbs straight out yawn. If you get wet or wade across a river, you can also shake the water off your body like a dog.

In the wild, giant pandas usually clash during the rutting season, especially when three to four males pursue a female in heat. Sometimes, females and males also fight. In zoos, their fights are usually over water, food, or one panda taking up good territory.

History of the species

The history of the giant panda goes back a long way. The fossils of the oldest member of the giant pandas found so far, the first panda, were unearthed in Lufeng and Yuanmou in Yunnan Province, China, and geologically dated to the late Miocene period, about 8 million years ago. In the long and harsh competition for survival and natural selection, and many of their contemporaries have gone extinct, but the giant panda is the strongest, at an advantage, survival to date as a "living fossil".

The giant panda's ancestor is the first panda, the standard Chinese name for the giant panda is actually called "cat and bear", meaning "cat-like bear". This is the earliest panda that evolved from a bear-like species that was primarily a carnivore. The main branch of the first panda continued to evolve in central and southern China, and one of them appeared at the beginning of the Pleistocene about 3 million years ago, with a body size smaller than that of the panda, and it was inferred from the teeth that it had already evolved into an omnivorous beast that also ate bamboo, and oviparous bears, and since then, this main branch expanded to subtropics, and its distribution was widespread in North China, Northwest China, East China, Southwest China, South China and even in Vietnam and northern Myanmar, where fossils have been found. During this process, giant pandas adapted to life in subtropical bamboo forests, gradually increasing in size and relying on bamboo for their livelihood. In the middle and late Pleistocene, 500-700,000 years ago, giant pandas had their heyday. In the life of the giant panda's molar teeth are developed, paws in addition to five toes and a "thumb". This "thumb" is actually a specialization of the carpal bone, the scientific name is "radial seed bone", mainly play a role in holding the bamboo.

Fossils show that the giant panda's ancestors appeared in the early Flood Era, 2-3 million years ago. Hundreds of thousands of years ago was the heyday of the giant panda, which belonged to the saber-toothed palaeontological group, and whose habitat once covered much of eastern and southern China, from Beijing in the north to southern Burma and northern Vietnam in the south. Fossils are usually found in temperate or subtropical forests at altitudes of 500-700 meters. While its contemporaries have since died out, the giant panda remains today and maintains its original ancient features.

The Chinese have a long history of recognizing the panda, and have documented various names for the panda since the early days of writing. The Book of Books called it Pi, the Mao Poem called it White Warrior, the Emei Mountain Journal called it Pixi, the Beasts Classic called it Raccoon, Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica called it Tapir, and so on. [5]

In March 1869, a French naturalist, Fr. Armand Davide, found traces of what locals call white bears and flower bears during a scientific expedition near the church of Dengchi Gou (Muping) in Baoxing County, Ya'an, Sichuan Province, China. Through the help of local hunters, on April 1, he collected a specimen of the white bear, with black and white fur, hairy bottoms of the paws, and a bear-like appearance, a strange animal he had never seen before. Its specimen and skeleton were shipped to France. By the Paris Museum of Natural History scientists Alphonse Miller Edwards identification, "black and white bear" is a new species, named (panda), the identification report published in 1869 in the Paris Museum of Natural History of the New Documents, Volume V, from now on, living in the wilderness of the panda into the vision of human civilization.

The meaning and symbol of the panda as a mascot3

Why always favor pandas as mascots

First, pandas look cute.

When an animal is chosen as a mascot, at least the animal's looks must be cute and popular. If the animal looks too fierce, it is not only difficult to bring people good feelings, but also make people dislike. So after comparing a circle you will find that the giant panda in all the animals is the most adorable, not only has a round body, fat NuoNuo's small short hands and short legs, and let a person look at the special stupid cute cute face, such pandas are not other animals can be compared to it? Therefore, pandas in people's minds is simply the most flawless.

Second, the giant panda is a symbol of peace.

Giant pandas are the national treasure of China, and they are often tasked with the mission of "peace ambassadors", circling among countries. Many pandas have traveled across oceans to live in new countries, and they have become a calling card for friendly exchanges between China and other countries. Such pandas have gradually developed into ambassadors of peace, and thus have become a symbol of peaceful exchanges between countries. Whenever you see foreign friends interacting with pandas, you will feel that such pandas are too charming, and they have become one of the most popular species in the world.

Three, pandas are so popular.

In addition to the cute looks of pandas, and its own important status, I think the reason why pandas are easy to be used as mascots may also be because it is too popular. After all, no matter where, as long as there are pandas appeared in the place, it is easy to cause a sensation, and will even become the object of people's attention. The pandas' cute looks, their mischievous movements, and their quirky behavior have brought people too many surprises and laughs. Giant pandas are so popular that it is only natural to use it as a mascot.