Song He is a common auspicious language in China. In fact, the red-crowned crane has four toes, the first three toes, the last toe, and the last toe is too small to touch the ground, so it can't live in trees, so it can only live in shallow beaches of lakes and swamps. Patterns and meals are also named after Song He Yannian.

The Nine White Banquet, the first of the seven appetizers in the Manchu-Han banquet menu, is also called longevity dish because of its profound meaning. Song He Yannian has a unique shape, beautiful appearance and clever color matching. When cooking this dish, you need the chef's exquisite knife work and skilled platter skills.

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There is a story in Neurology: In ancient times, there was a stone chamber in Nanguoshan, Xingyang County. At the back of the room is a Gu Song, with a height of 1000 feet and a shadow of half a mile. There are often two cranes flying on it. They never leave each other. According to legend, a couple of Mu Dao lived in seclusion in this stone room in Han Dynasty, and later came to Baihexian. They transformed the pair of white cranes on the pine branches.

In this way, the auspicious meanings of "Song He Ling Shou" and "Song He Changchun" have derived many auspicious birthday pictures, including Zhu Xuanxian's traditional Chinese painting "Song He Picture", which has become a common theme in art works from ancient times to the present.