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The Mandarin Duck: Symbol of Wedded Bliss & Fidelity

   

I discovered today a new kind of ducks that I didn’t know before, the mandarin duck. If we compare to our North American Wood Duck. The mandarin duck is way more colorful, his breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange “sails” at the back. In China, the mandarin duck is associated as a Chinese weddings symbol, because it symbolize wedded bliss and fidelity. But in reality, though, the ducks find new partners each year. A Chinese proverb for loving couples uses the Mandarin Duck as a metaphor: “Two mandarin ducks playing in water”.

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