What are the meanings of the animal patterns on the official clothes of the Qing Dynasty?

The patterns of the patches of the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty are as follows:

Animal patterns on the official uniforms of the royal relatives

Prince with five-clawed golden dragons four regiments of front and back of the front and rear of the positive dragon, the two shoulders of the row dragon

Prince of the Prince of the World as above

County King with five-clawed row dragons four regiments of front and back of the shoulders of the first

Beilei with four claws of the front and back of the positive python two regiments of the second

Beizi four-clawed row python two regiments

Animal motifs on the official uniforms of the ministers of the Qing Dynasty

Civilian posts: first grade ---- cranes. Military official: first grade ---- unicorn.

The second grade ---- brocade chicken. Second grade ---- lion.

Third grade ---- peacock. Third grade ---- leopard.

Fourth grade ---- mandarin duck. Fourth grade ---- tiger.

Fifth grade ---- white pheasant. Fifth grade ---- bear warrior.

Sixth grade ---- heron. Sixth grade ---- piu.

Seventh grade ---- quail. Seventh grade ---- rhinoceros.

Eighth grade ---- quail. Eighth grade ---- rhinoceros.

Ninth grade ---- blue finch. Ninth grade ---- seahorse.

Note 1: The mandarin, sound "western wing", can also be read as "deceive the wing", is a kind of beautiful colorful feathers of the water birds, often male and female together, like **** hosts, but also love to fly and swim together.

Note 2: seventh and eighth grade military official uniforms on the same animal "rhinoceros".

According to evidence, the ancient official uniforms using birds and beasts pattern, the earliest in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian. The official dress of the Qing Dynasty, also known as the complementary clothing, also known as the "complementary coat". It was the dress of the Qing Dynasty. When the emperor wore a gun suit, the emperor wore a dragon coat, the princes and ministers and officials wore a complementary dress to match. However, the complementary clothing with more occasions and time, so it is the Qing dynasty civil and military ministers and officials of the important official clothing. Supplementary clothing in the form of round neck, lapel, flat sleeves, sleeves and elbow Qi, clothing length to below the knee (shorter than the robe of one foot), lapel with 5 buttons stone green loose-style coat, so there is "coat" or "jacket" said. Where the patch is stone green, the main feature of the patch is gold, silver and other colored threads, embroidered into a patch of different patterns, to distinguish between high and low official positions. Civilian embroidered birds, military embroidered beasts, embellished in the front and back of the official uniform. Prince, County King, Baylor, Prince and other members of the royal family with a round patch. Solid Lun extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, Zhen Guo Gong, Fu Guo Gong, Heshuo extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, the people of the public, marquis, uncle, son, male, to all levels of the rank of the officials, all with square patch. The Qing dynasty is worn outside of the dress robe, not alone, where the dress robe must be worn outside of the robe to make up the coat. The only exception is the annual three days of summer heat period, called "free period", this time to wear uniforms robe can be free set of complementary clothing.