Pronunciation: [s not ng Hè yá n Niá n]
Explanation:
loose
Proud of frost and snow, outstanding, first seen in the Book of Songs, Xiaoya Sigan. Because of its long history, it does not fade in winter, and it celebrates its birthday with pine. Yu Changsheng said, "The rank of four cadres is faint in Nanshan. Like bamboo shoots, like pine. " This primitive symbolic meaning of the Song Dynasty was accepted by Taoism and became an important prototype of immortals in Taoist mythology. In Taoist mythology, pine trees are a symbol of immortality, so taking pine leaves and roots can soar to immortality. Be endowed with a noble and unsociable image.
crane
Taoism was also introduced into the celestial world, so cranes are regarded as natural things and become a symbol of nobility and elegance. People who know the truth ride back and forth on cranes. Later, monks also took cranes as companions, giving them the connotation of noble feelings and becoming a symbol of lofty sentiments and aspirations of celebrities. Cranes are regarded as immortals among the people, and immortals are naturally immortals.
The unity of the two immortals means wishing people a long and noble life like pine cranes.
The cranes in Song He's New Year pictures generally refer to red-crowned cranes, which are cranes and birds in the order Crane. The red-crowned crane has four toes, the first three toes, the last toe, and the last toe are too small to touch the ground, so it can't live in trees, but only in shallow beaches of lakes and swamps.