peacock
Chicken: Any of various birds of the Pheasant family (Pheasant) with gorgeous feathers. Strictly speaking, peacocks refer to male peacocks, peacocks refer to female peacocks, and male and female peacocks are collectively called peacocks. The two species of the genus Green Peacock are the blue peacock from India and Sri Lanka and the green peacock from Myanmar to Java. According to a feather found in the investigation of 19 13, 1936 found the African peacock (African peacock in Congo).
The male body length of two kinds of peacocks is 90? 130 cm (35？ 50 inches), the tail screen is as long as 150 cm (60 inches), which is bright metallic green. The tail screen is mainly composed of feathers above the tail. These feathers are particularly long, and the iridescent "eyes" at the tips are surrounded by blue and bronze. During the courtship performance, the male peacock put up its tail under the tail screen. So that the tail screen stands up and moves forward. When the courtship performance reaches its climax, the tail feather vibrates, flashes and giggles.
Blue peacock
The body feathers of blue peacocks are mainly metallic blue-green. The long tail of a green peacock is similar to that of a blue peacock, with green and copper feathers. The females of both species have green and brown body feathers, almost as big as the males, but they have no long tail screen or crown feathers. Peacocks inhabit open lowland forests, flock in groups during the day and perch on tall trees at night. In the breeding season, each male peacock has 2? Five female peacocks Four per female? Eight white eggs, placed in the depression on the ground.
Peacock, as an ornamental bird, is the main exhibition animal in many zoos in the world, which has long been famous in the old world. However, because green peacocks are aggressive, they must be kept separately from other birds. Although the blue peacock is native to hot and humid areas, it can also spend the winter in the north; Green peacocks can't stand cold weather.
Congo peacock is the only large pheasant in Africa. The male bird's body feathers are mainly blue-green, and the tail is short and round. The female bird's body feathers are red and green, and the crown feathers are brown.
Green peacock (national first-class protected animal)-the queen of birds (there are mainly seven colors, namely copper, green, purple, blue, yellow and red).
Scientific name: Green Peacock
English name: Green Peafowl
The green peacock, or peacock, is famous all over the world because it can open the screen. The male peacock's feathers are green, and the back of the peacock shines with copper luster. Feathers on the tail are particularly developed, usually tucked in the back and sticking out about 1 m, which is called "pride as a peacock". These feathers are bright and slender, like golden green velvet, with many big eye spots at the end, which are composed of four colors: purple, blue, yellow and red. When the screen is turned on, the brilliance they reflect, like countless small mirrors, is really bright and dazzling. They are stout, with male body length of about 1.4m and female body length of about1.1m.. The clusters of feather crowns that stand high above the head are also elegant. The female peacock has no tail screen, dark brown back and green light, but it is not as beautiful as the male peacock.
Green peacocks are only distributed in southern Yunnan. They inhabit river valleys below 2000 meters above sea level, and also live in open areas of bushes, bamboo forests and Woods. It is common to see activities in pairs, and there are also groups of three or five. The food is mainly mushrooms, tender grass, leaves, termites and other insects. It enters the breeding season in mid-February every year, and each nest lays 4-8 eggs.
Peacock's wings are not well developed, and its flight speed is slow and clumsy, but it will be faster when it descends and slides. Strong legs, good at scurrying, and striding away. Foraging activities, walking like a chicken, nodding while walking.
Peacocks include green peacocks and blue peacocks. Green Peacock, also known as Java Peacock, is distributed in the south of Yunnan Province, China, and is a national first-class protected animal in China. Blue peacock, also known as Indian peacock, is distributed in India and Sri Lanka. Blue peacocks also have two variants: white peacocks and black peacocks. Artificial breeding mainly refers to blue peacocks.
Peacock is considered as the "king of birds", the most beautiful ornamental bird, and a symbol of good luck, kindness, beauty and luxury. Feathers have special ornamental value and are used to make various handicrafts. Moreover, the artificially raised blue peacock contains high protein, low energy, low fat and low cholesterol, which can be used as a high-grade delicacy.
Every spring, especially in March and April, there are the most smug times. Why? Is pride like a peacock related to the season?
We know that only male peacocks can naturally open their screens. In line with the laws of nature, among peacocks, males are more beautiful and females are uglier. The gonads in male peacocks secrete sex hormones, which stimulate the brain and unfold the tail screen. Spring is the season for peacocks to lay eggs and breed. As a result, the male peacock unfolded its colorful tail screen and kept making all kinds of beautiful dance moves to show off his beauty to the female peacock in order to attract the female peacock. After successful courtship, it lays eggs and hatches with the female peacock.
Proud is also to protect yourself. On the peacock's big tail screen, we can see five-color gold thread, which is dotted with many "eye spots" composed of purple, blue, brown, yellow and red from the inside out. Once encountering the enemy, it was too late to escape. The peacock suddenly opened the screen and then swayed, and many eye spots moved with it. The enemy was afraid of this "multi-eyed monster" and did not dare to rush forward.
Peacock's head is very small, with some upright feathers on its head and a sharp and hard mouth; The male bird's feathers are beautiful, mainly green, cyan and purplish brown, but also white and shiny; The tail feather of the male peacock extends into a tail screen with various colorful patterns on it, which is very gorgeous when the screen is opened, like a fan. The female bird has no tail screen and the hair color difference.
Proud is the courtship performance of birds. When the breeding season comes in April and May every year, male peacocks often put their tail feathers up high, making a big splash and dazzling. Female peacocks choose to mate according to the magnificence of male peacocks' feather screens.
Peacocks like to live in tropical or subtropical jungles in pairs or in groups, mainly distributed in southern Asia. Only Yunnan in China has wild peacocks. Peacock usually takes a walk for food, loves to eat wild fruits such as yellow bubbles and wild pears, and also eats grass seeds from five grains.
Peacocks can be seen, and feathers can be used as decorations.
Peacock is a rare bird which is encouraged by the state to cultivate and integrates ornamental, edible and health care. Peacock meat is a rare game with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol. High nutritional value and delicious meat. It is said that "an old turtle in the water is a peacock in the bird". The forty-ninth volume of the Department of Poultry in Compendium of Materia Medica records * "Peacock can eliminate evil spirits, and can solve great poisons, all kinds of poisons and drugs". Its detoxification effect even exceeds pangolin. Proved by modern science and technology, peacock meat is rich in nutrition and various trace elements, and the proportion of amino acids is close to the ideal model recommended by FAO and WHO. It is a high-quality protein with thin meat, and its fat, cholesterol and calorie indexes are better than those of ordinary poultry, animals and freshwater fish, reaching the standard of extremely lean meat stipulated by the new American food standard law. Peacock bone has high calcium content, and the ratio of calcium to phosphorus is better than that of milk, which is almost the same as that of human milk. It is a high-quality source of calcium supplement.
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Director: Gu Changwei
Screenwriter: Li Wei
Language: Mandarin/Chinese subtitles
Starring: Zhang Jingchu-as the elder sister.
Li Feng-As a brother
Lv Yulai-As a younger brother.
Release date: February 6, 2005 438+08
Peacock tells the story of a family of five who lived in a small city in the north in the 1970s and 1980s, and what happened to everyone in a period of time. The main characters are my sister (Zhang Jingchu), my brother (Feng Ying) and my brother (Lv Yulai). My sister, in her early twenties, is a thin and delicate girl with Puritan temperament, but her heart is strong and stubborn, and she can win any heart for her dream. My brother is twenty-three or four years old. When I was a child, I got a slight brain disease, but people who think he is stupid are often not as clear as he is. My younger brother is seventeen or eighteen years old, sensitive and melancholy, and his heart is so rich that people are a little lazy. The future of such a child is uncertain ... "Peacock" describes the life course and living conditions of three young people with paragraphs, showing the pursuit of ideals, as well as disillusionment, nervous convulsions, listlessness, and even dull days. The process of dust settling. This process provides us with the opportunity to observe others and ourselves at the same time.
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The story of Peacock is retrospective and autobiographical. This is a pleasant narrative style that mixes nostalgia, sadness and deconstruction, and naturally has an infectious effect. For example, Four Hundred Strikes written by Chu Ci, Ivan's Childhood written by tarkovsky and I was Born written by An Erlang, but ..., childhood memories and homesickness, sunny days in Jiang Wen, 17-year-old bicycle in Wang Xiaoshuai, Jia's platform ... childhood longing or the growth of youth, that kind of narration can always reveal the coldness and unbearable of the adult world more easily.
Peacock brings today's middle-aged generation back to the 1970s and 1980s, the transitional period, and relives the era of revolution and post-revolution, when demand exceeds supply and poverty is gloomy. Just after the Cultural Revolution, it was a northern town in the late 1970s. The film begins with a scene of a family of five sitting around the dining table, and memories chug in a dark kettle. Big brother Gao Weiguo suffers from brain diseases, nicknamed "Fat Man", and is often bullied; My younger brother Gao Weiqiang is taciturn, and he is also the narrator of the film. My sister is the heroine Gao, with a delicate face and a stubborn and persistent personality. The film is full of ordinary experiences of ordinary families in that period. For example, when a family made honeycomb briquettes together, it was attacked by heavy rain. For example, during the Chinese New Year, the mother gave her children a few sweets. These details may evoke dusty memories. Under the cover of poor cobwebs, the family in the film has its particularity, and there is a silly big brother suffering from encephalopathy. In my opinion, this is an important reason why this family, which could have lived a poor but peaceful life, fell into fierce conflict. Parents' preference for elder brother caused dissatisfaction and jealousy of younger sister and younger brother, and younger sister was discriminated against because of elder brother's stupidity. The two men tried to poison their brother, so they asked him to eat meat buns with great guilt. The parents of this family were conservative and strict, which was common in those days. They are actually another shadow hanging over children. For Wei Hong, when she was a girl as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, she had to face endless bottles washed by pharmaceutical companies every day, which made the mechanical repetitive work desperate ... In the depressed life background, some potential revolutionary factors were restless in the unyielding young mind. Wei Hong indulged in fantasy, escaping from the status quo in various ways in imagination; Wei Qiang is like a sad and silent bird.
So, naturally, Wei Hong's infinite yearning for paratroopers' life came into being. When the beautiful girl was lying on the balcony of the roof, staring at the blue sky, like a fairy, she suddenly opened a dazzling white umbrella flower from the plane, and her eyes lit up. We can feel her deep desire to fly. This is a romantic scene different from her humble life. Dazzling paratroopers parachuting and Wei Hong galloping on the Yuan Ye by bike are a duet that echoes each other. Wei Hong's naive and curious approach to those brave paratroopers gave birth to an escapist idea. She is going to sign up as a paratrooper. But her dream didn't come true and she was eliminated. Handsome male paratroopers didn't really help her. She was heavily pushed back to her dark hut. Then came the most brilliant scene in the film: Wei Hong, who had been fasting for many days in silence, finally came back to life. She threw herself on the sewing machine and frantically sewed a huge parachute; Then, she rode a bicycle, flying fast, dragging a parachute that opened with the wind behind the car, shouting and laughing, and speeding in the street, attracting countless surprised eyes. A young man named Guo whistled and rode his bike behind him excitedly. It was not until her mother appeared that she was dragged to the ground with her car ... Another striking shot of the film was to find fruit to return to the parachute, and Wei Hong took off his pants without hesitation ... It can be said that the parachute is definitely one of the most important and proud thoughts in Peacock, and this artificial image was used to pin all Wei Hong's dreams and determination to break through the prison of life in adolescence. People may question the authenticity of this film. In that era when cloth tickets were still used, how could a poor family provide such rich cloth for parachutes? This detail comes entirely from artistic imagination. Like many works of art, does art come from life? But it is higher than life.
Finally, Wei Hong, who was on the verge of madness, returned to the cold reality, and her ideal tragically degenerated automatically and became as long as she didn't brush the bottle. She hastily married a driver who promised to change jobs, and she can burn glass bottles in another factory-it seems that her relationship with glass bottles is unlikely to end yet. I love her wild fruit, I never married her, and I helped her teach the loafer who bullied her big brother. Fruit is the most attractive male image in the film, but the sense of security he brings is of course completely different from that brought by Hitchcock's tall, handsome, honest and intelligent white men.
The dreamy years of a young girl ended in such a bleak way. This is obviously an indictment of the mediocre, conservative and rigid old system and the ugly ethics attached to it. The old times bound those young, precocious and active hearts. Twenty-four cents, a sexual knowledge manual, sneaks in the works, which makes people smile. Brother Wei Qiang was kicked out of the house by his father because of a female anatomical map. After several years of wandering, he brought back a dusty woman and her young son, and lived a retired life in this small town where hunting has become popular, doing nothing and being decadent. However, after a love setback, eldest brother and a lame woman in the country lived a down-to-earth life.
Wei Hong is divorced. One day, she happened to meet a handsome paratrooper, who was surprised at first. At that time, the standard of Putonghua in Wei Hong was admirable. This man, who had a good relationship with Wei Hong, brought longing and hope to Wei Hong, and then pushed Wei Hong to the abyss of despair. He didn't help Wei Hong realize his wish to be a paratrooper. At the moment, he is munching on the meat bag. He is the kind of slovenly middle-aged man who is addicted to the secular life in the street. His dirty son is sitting in the back seat of a bicycle, and his wife with a big bag on her back is the girl he helped to become a paratrooper. The irony in the film is so obvious that it seems a bit unkind.
The next scene must be unforgettable for the audience: Wei Hong and his younger brother Wei Qiang crouched by the tomato stand on the roadside, choosing one by one. Touching the oily skin of tomatoes, suddenly, Wei Hong's tears could not help but flow out and gush. She turned her back on her brother to hide her gaffes, but she couldn't stop sobbing with grief. My younger brother was too busy choosing tomatoes to notice my sister's tears and twisted face. This woman, wearing a waist-less gray sweatshirt, squatted on the side of the road crying her eyes out on a sunny day, but no one knew. What about the smart girl in a white coat and riding a bicycle with two braids flying? What about the girl who has always had a dream of flying in her heart? This silent cry conveys to people that silence is better than sound. This scene reminds me of the ending of Cai Mingliang's long live love, and Yang Guimei cried for three minutes in a row ... If crying can alleviate the great depression of life, if crying can wash away the filth of life, then cry hard enough! After crying, wipe your face and keep walking. This is real life: Moscow doesn't believe in tears?
At the end of the film, it was a cold winter. Three brothers and sisters are middle-aged, and three small families walk through the peacock bar in the zoo. Wei Hong is married again and has a child. I can't see who the man next to her is. We hope it will love her fruit forever. Fat brother and lame woman hold hands with each other and walk very vigorously; Wei Qiang, the younger brother, took his wife and children with him. It was false for the children to call the peacock, because the peacock didn't open its screen. Everyone walked by one by one, leaving without any hope.
Suddenly, in the peacock garden, the beautiful male peacock opened the beautiful flower screen, and he slowly rotated his body, like a solemn ceremony. However, it proudly rushed its ass to the audience and remained motionless for a long time, like a touch of irony. The thin and ordinary female peacock calmly pecked at the food on the ground, so that her peacock man could enjoy the performance. This is the peacock's love world, and a secular love chase is about to be staged. The glory has passed, and the ground is full of days when there are no waves in ancient wells; However, in my long and mediocre career, I have had a proud youthful ambition and dazzling demeanor. This is enough to comfort people and arouse the fragile and sensitive heart that is always easy to feel.
Movie theme:
It's spring to see peacocks. It's supposed to be the time when the earth thaws and spring blossoms. But our city is still dark and humid. I feel particularly tired after reading such a story about fate and life. At that moment, I felt that people in and out of the play were so similar. Compared with the humble society, no matter how good dreams and hopes are, personal strength cannot be crushed by cruel wheels.
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Peacock revolves around a common great theme-innocence eventually grows up, and expresses the heavy fate of the family through repeated chanting. The three children are divided into three sections, and the voices are connected in series through the words of their younger brothers. This film makes people feel unspeakable anger and anxiety. And it is quiet and stubborn. The film tells the story of people in the world, tells the story of ourselves who never meet each other from time to time but never leave, and tells where we come from and where we still yearn for it. On the one hand, it is simple and simple, exquisite and poetic, on the other hand, it echoes and whispers with all kinds of hidden pains in our hearts.
In Peacock, some scenes easily leave a deep impression on me. Some are more important than lyricism, expressing characters' inner feelings or the flavor of the times with simple and vivid daily scenes, while others are beautiful and exquisite, paying more attention to the picture effect, and the beauty of color and form is somewhat unexpected.
In these scenes, hidden pain and anxiety seem to stand quietly aside. My sister bowed her head and fiddled with the organ, playing like this and playing like that, while lying gently. Maybe she doesn't play very well, maybe she doesn't love music or piano so much, and her expression doesn't absorb, but she is happy, she is so young. This kind of light, flowing and joyful notes that don't need perfection is her youth life.
Next to her is a pot of boiling water. She saw the water for a long time, but she ignored it and watched it open. This moment can't last long, and the lens processing is very slow. We are vaguely uneasy, so we have accumulated a little bit between these few seconds of exquisite poetry.
My sister is a dreamer. She will sew a handmade parachute with old cloth and "fly" it in the street with a bicycle. No young girl can be beautiful, even in that gray-blue era. The girl with white shirt and blue trousers raised her white sail as if she were an elf.
It was in the late 1970s, on the streets of a small town! After the aestheticism and simplicity in Peacock, everyone seems to have such eyes, worried and painful. At the other end of these "aestheticism" and "simplicity", there are still some quiet cruelty. Brother Fool was beaten by everyone in the rain. The weak brother finally rushed into the crowd silently, but he didn't push the crowd away to protect his brother or explain it to everyone. Instead, as we thought, he stabbed his brother several times with the tip of the umbrella he specially gave him, very hard.
The movie stopped at this moment, only the expression of my brother, no one around me, and the modality of my brother lying on the ground in the rain. Such a scene can't be cruel, but "Focus Plane" is enough to stop in time when more catharsis may pour out. There are many such shocking fragments.
Peacock's narrative way is basically to express people and times with fragments of plots and scenes, and pay attention to the expressive force of each fragment. In my opinion, Peacock seems to have a faint silence when expressing a potentially cruel scene, which gives all this a kind of protection. This kind of maintenance can't be said to be problematic, but it is more meaningful.
Sister and brother are young, ignorant and knowledgeable. They want to poison their brother with the medicine mouse bought by their mother and win more love from their parents. It seems abnormal, but it's actually quite normal. The result, of course, is that things are interrupted and don't really happen.
The way for mothers to educate their children is to let the big white goose that has been raised at home for a while taste this potion and let the children see what it will look like. The big white goose stretched out its long neck, twisted back and forth and struggled to die. The picture stops in the goose's struggle and mother's silent sobs, and it's over. There is no more rendering of the cruel scene, and there is no room for direct lyric. It stopped a little before the most cruel moment, and then walked away gently.
In my opinion, "aestheticism", "simplicity" and "calmness" in Peacock are all influenced by popular expressions. And movies will not be completely covered by the mainstream concepts of the times. The story told in Peacock is a China story. Its coldness and warmth, exposure and concealment all have the characteristics of the times in the film, even surpassing the profound imprint of that era.
My mother lost more than ten dollars, which was quite a lot at that time, but this family is not so poor that everyone can't live without it. And my mother blames herself so much that she feels that she is not a fault, but a sinner, and such a crime is unforgivable and irreversible.
Dad found his little son drawing a naked girl in his notebook. He naturally faced the door and loudly announced that his son was a hooligan. This is what the times asked him to say, and that era really made people feel that this was a shameful sin. This really became his own words again. No one knew, and no one forced him, so he said to the outside of the gate. Individuals put themselves on the platform of public judgment. In the blame, guilt and shame, he feels guilty and humiliated, and he seems to be dependent and safe.
Sister by hook or by crook, is the "evil" that can't win in the cruel competition of the times. She wants to be a soldier, and she also wants to make contacts, but in fact, people who are better at making contacts than her have got what she wants. Influenced by the evil of the times, she can only copy this structure on herself or on people weaker than herself and vent this influence.
The reason why Peacock is the story of China is because all kinds of depression in the characters and stories are inseparable from that era. Among them, the characters face these facts in a more alienated way. Being insulted and hurt brings the world and mind together. People in modern China and China have been repeating this process. In his time, people lived cautiously.
The root of misfortune lies not in events, but in their thoughts. As the film drew to a close, the most shocking scene of the story appeared. My sister and brother go to buy tomatoes. My sister met a once heroic officer, but now she is as wretched and ordinary as the men around her.
She finally collapsed, covered her face with one hand and cried silently. Her face is severely distorted. In that silence, she burst into years of accumulated pain and powerless despair, and her heart was completely dead. This grief-stricken cry has the power to stab the soul and make people bleed, and it has been passed down to this day.
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Special issue: Peacock
Singer: Qu Ying.
Language: Mandarin album 1CD
Company: BMG
Date: 2000. 12.00
The second album Peacock was released in February 65438. Qu Ying, who released her solo album the year before last, decided to release her second album Peacock in mainland China and Taiwan Province Province at the same time because of her good performance.
In the past two years, Qu Ying has made frequent appearances in the entertainment circle, making an all-round attack in film, television and songs, and becoming a multi-faceted star.
Qu Ying's achievements in music are not inferior at all. As early as 1995, he won the special honor award of CCTV Music and Television Competition, and was the guest host of MTV's Tianlai Village on 1995- 1997. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/998, the first solo album "Don't be impulsive" was released. After this album was released by Shanghai Audio & Video Company, Qu Ying's new image in the music industry was widely recognized. Recently, Qu Ying's second solo album Peacock was released again by Shanghai Audio & Video Company.
Peacock was produced by famous producers Wu Dawei and Ouyang Rong. Qu Ying uses her singing to outline a cheerful, young, free, frank and pure modern city image, among which the title song "You are Free" is very in line with Qu Ying's temperament and harmony; Peacock is a metaphor for peacock, expressing the desire to finally find something special about me, although it has a beautiful appearance and can attract a lot of attention. "Men Listen to Women's Hearts" is the ending song of the TV series "Gone with the Wind" jointly created by the three places. The album also includes the ending song "Not Just Friends" of Qu Ying's TV series "True Confessions".