Symbolism of Dai Sheng Bird

The symbolism of the Dai Sheng Bird is peace, beauty and happiness.

The Dai Sheng Bird's appearance is extremely unique, with colorful feathers on top of its head, a long, thin and narrow beak, staggered feather patterns, a vigilant and straightforward nature, and a habit of fidelity, which has made it one of the symbols in religions and legends since ancient times. In China, the Dai Sheng bird symbolizes peace, beauty and happiness. There are many poems praising the Dai Sheng bird in ancient China.

China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west, northeast, Taiwan, Hainan and other provinces, Tibet Autonomous Region are distributed. It is a summer migratory and traveler bird north of the Yangtze River, and a resident bird south of the Yangtze. The Dai Sheng is the national bird of Israel and is a third-class protected bird in China.

There are two kinds of auspicious birds that frequent the fields and trees during the rainy season. One is the cuckoo bird, which urges people to sow seeds in time with its chirping. The second is the Dai Sheng bird, which often appears in the mulberry tree, as if to remind people in time to pick mulberry silkworms, start the loom. Although the Dai Sheng bird has some unpleasant nicknames, it has always been favored by people because of its high face value and its main diet of pests.

As a kind of auspicious pattern, the Dai Sheng bird pattern also often appears in a variety of artifacts. Not only gold and silver, painting the image of Dai Sheng, in ceramics, silk fabrics and other artifacts often see Dai Sheng bird silhouette. Such as the Qing Yongzheng period, there are pastel color Dai Sheng green bamboo pattern wash.

In the millennium year of 2000, China Gold Coin Corporation issued a series of color gold and silver coins of Chinese rare birds, including the Dai Sheng bird color gold and silver coins each one. The obverse side features the Great Wall, while the reverse side features a bird with its crown spread out standing on a branch of magnolia. The design is simple and clear, without being clichéd.

The Dai Sheng bird is vivid and lively, especially the colorful crown of feathers on its head, like a peacock opening its screen, which is unforgettable. The launch of these two gold and silver coins by the China National Gold Coin Corporation (CNGC) during the Spring Festival of the new millennium has the auspicious meaning of "the beginning of the millennium, Dai Sheng Ruyi".

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