The characteristics of Yuanyang male and female are very obvious. What did the ancients name the male bird?

Name the male bird after the mandarin duck.

The male and female characteristics of Yuanyang are very obvious. The ancients named the male bird Yuanyang and the female bird Yuanyang. Mandarin ducks are mostly a male and a female during courtship, and often chase after each other. The male fish will follow the female fish closely and occasionally feed the female fish to pay attention. Male and female birds often comb each other's feathers together and look very close. The ancients should have observed this phenomenon of birds in pairs, so they regarded Yuanyang as a symbol of loyal love.

The ancients named male birds after their honeymoon. Name the female bird after "Yang". In China's literary image, Yuanyang has always been a symbol of love harmony and loyalty. Among the things used by the ancients for marriage, the wedding dress and the wedding dress were embroidered with Yuanyang as a good blessing. In addition to the moral of beautiful love, the ancients often praised Yuanyang as a brotherly affection. As a traditional auspicious bird in China, Yuanyang plays an indelible role in China culture.

Morphological characteristics:

Yuanyang refers to male birds and Yuanyang refers to female birds, so Yuanyang is a compound word. It is a kind of suborder medium-sized duck, which is between mallard duck and green-winged duck. It is 38-45 cm long and weighs about 0.5 kg. Hermaphrodite, with red beak and orange feet, bright and gorgeous feathers, gorgeous crown feathers on her head, broad white eyebrows behind her eyes, and a pair of chestnut yellow fan-shaped upright feathers on her wings, which stand on her back like sails, are very strange and eye-catching and easy to identify in the wild.