What does the crane stand for?

The Danding Crane stands for a high point in the sky.

In Chinese history, the crane was recognized as a first-class literary bird. The Ming and Qing dynasties endowed the crane with cultural connotations of loyalty, purity, and high moral character. The complementary clothing of the civil officials, the first grade civil officials embroidered cranes, listing it as an important symbol of the dragon and phoenix, second only to the royal exclusive.

As a result, people also called the crane a first-class bird. People also use the crane as a symbol of high officials. The auspicious pattern of a crane standing on a rock at the head of the tide takes the harmony of tide and dynasty to symbolize the first grade of the dynasty like the prime minister, and the pattern of a crane flying in the clouds symbolizes the first grade of the high grade. The crane flying in the clouds symbolizes a high rank.

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The red-crowned crane needs clean and open wetland environments as its habitat, and is the most sensitive indicator organism to changes in wetland environments. Due to the continuous growth of the population, the habitat of the cranes is constantly being changed into farmland or cities.

For example, the moon bubble in the western part of Jilin Province was once a breeding ground for cranes, but because of man-made dikes around the lake, the water level inside the dikes rose, the water plant belt basically disappeared, and the lakes outside the dikes dried up, and reclaimed farmland, and the cranes have been extinct since then.

Another example is the swampy area between Shaobo Lake and Gaoyou Lake in northern Jiangsu Province, which used to be the wintering place of the red-crowned cranes, and due to the increasing number of people fishing, herding, and hunting in the area every year, the number of red-crowned cranes has decreased drastically due to the increased man-made disturbances, as well as the picking of eggs, poaching, and so on.

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