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What does the colorful chicken in ancient clothes mean?

Colored chicken should be golden pheasant. Appeared in the official uniforms of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (supplement). On behalf of civil servants.

According to Ming Hui Dian, the twenty-four years of Hongwu (139 1), the complement patterns are: Gong, Hou, Xu and Bo: Kirin and Bai Ze; Civil servants embroider birds to show civilization: one crane, two golden pheasants, three peacocks, four geese, five silver pheasants, six egrets and seven birds? Swallows, eight orioles and nine quails; Military attache embroiders animals, demonstrating fiercely: one product, two products of lion, three products, four products of tiger and leopard, five products of bear, six products of tiger, seven products of tiger, eight products of rhinoceros and nine products of seahorse; Miscellaneous duties: practicing magpies; Feng Xianguan: I'm embarrassed. In addition, there are other patterns with the theme of pythons and bullfights, which should belong to the category of "giving clothes" in the Ming Dynasty.