When did pandas start to be called national treasures

The origin of the panda as a national treasure is no longer verifiable, but it is recorded that the panda was given to foreign guests as an animal national treasure in Chinese history, according to the Old Tang Book

It is recorded that in 685 AD, the Wa State sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty to request the above change of the name of the country, Tang Ruizong.

Li Dan said: "The Wa State hated its name **, and changed the name of the country to Japan" In order to show the friendship of the Tang Dynasty to Fanbang, Wu Zetian, who was in power at that time.

He gave two pandas to Japan and returned to Japan with the Tang envoys.

The giant panda has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years, is known as a "living fossil" and "China's national treasure", the image ambassador of the World Wide Society for Nature, and is the flagship species of the world's biodiversity conservation. As of November 2019, the global population of giant pandas in captivity reached 600.

In 1988, the panda was identified as a national first-class protected animal by the People's Republic of China!

Because of its high rarity, only China has this animal in the world! At the same time, it has made a great contribution to China's diplomacy. Therefore, it is designated as a national treasure of China. Because of its unique image, the black and white colors are evenly distributed.

Cute behavior and cute form make everyone love.

Parenting animal trivia – why pandas are called China's national treasures.

The giant panda is considered a national treasure of China for the following reasons:1. Rare is expensive, not only because of its small number, the giant panda is often said to be a living fossil, hundreds of thousands of years ago was the heyday of the giant panda, which has important scientific value for the study and protection of biodiversity, as well as the earth's environmental changes.

2. Giant pandas are unique to China, scarce, endangered, very cute, it has a very powerful function is to digest bamboo, bamboo is mainly cellulose, most animals can not digest cellulose, only giant pandas can.

The distribution of giant pandas in China (Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu); Extinction: China (Hunan and Hubei). The giant panda is endemic to China, and its distribution area includes the Qinling Mountains, Minshan Mountains, Qionglai Mountains, Daxiangling, Xiaoxiangling Mountains and Xiaoliang Mountains.

The Qinling Mountains are distributed in the southern foothills, the main distribution county is Foping, the general distribution of the county is Yangxian, and only a small number of counties are Taibai, Ningshan Zhouzhi, Liuba, Ningqiang, etc.

The panda was designated as a first-class protected animal in 1988 and a national treasure after the Asian Games in 1990.

The giant panda (scientific name: ailuropodamelanoleuca, English name: giantpanda) belongs to the carnivorous order, the bear family, the subfamily of giant pandas and the only mammal of the genus Giant Panda, its body color is black and white, it has round cheeks, large dark circles, a chubby body, the iconic inner figure walking style, and also has scalpel-like sharp claws.

It is one of the cutest animals in the world.