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Peacock tattoo has what meaning

The peacock has a reputation as a literary bird. It has a beautiful body, Dan mouth Xuan eyes, fine strength and breast. Male peacock tail length of three feet, colorful people, gorgeous without edge. From the back to the tail, there are five colors of gold and emerald glittering round lines, like coins around the phase, called the eye circle, graceful and pleasing to the eye, the United States is not enough to say. Peacock because of the beautiful and high moral, so in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the official uniforms of civil officials, there are peacock pattern, peacock pattern has become a symbol of official rank. In the Ming Dynasty, the third rank of civil officials was peacock, and in the Qing Dynasty, the second and third ranks of civil officials were peacock. So in these two dynasties the peacock became a symbol of rank, position and power. A painting with a coral vase with a peacock plume pattern, its auspicious meaning is to wish the official luck, and promotion.