Why the giant panda is considered a national treasure in China

The giant panda has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years, is known as a "living fossil", the image ambassador of the World Nature, and is the flagship species of the world's biodiversity conservation.

The geological age is about 8 million years ago, the late Miocene. In the long-term and harsh competition for survival and natural selection, many of their contemporaries have become extinct, but the giant panda is the strongest, in an advantageous position, and has been preserved as a "living fossil" to this day.

The ancestor of the giant panda is the first panda, and the standard Chinese name of the giant panda is actually "cat bear", which means "bear like a cat". This is one of the earliest carnivorous pandas that evolved from bears.

The black and white fur color of the panda is in line with China's 5,000-year-old document thinking, so it is regarded as a national treasure of China.

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The reason why the giant panda is known as China's national treasure is because in the world, only China has the giant panda species, and in nature, the giant panda is very rare, and now only in the giant panda breeding research base can see their figure, in our country, the giant panda is listed as a first-class protected animal.

Although the giant panda is a carnivorous species, it also likes to eat bamboo and bamboo shoots. According to scientific research, the giant panda has existed on the earth for no less than eight million years, and most of the species in the same era as it have become extinct, only the giant panda still maintains its ancient form and continues to this day. This is where the title of "living fossil" of the giant panda comes from, which also makes the giant panda even more precious.

In the early part of the II period, the discovery of the giant panda caused a great sensation in the Western world. Many Western explorers and hunters come to China to hunt giant pandas. During that period, many giant pandas were hunted by Westerners and brought back to Western countries to be made into specimens, and the already endangered giant panda population was even more precarious.

It was not until the forties of the twentieth century that China** began to restrict the hunting of giant pandas by foreigners.

The reason why the giant panda will become a national treasure.

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 is of great 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 and, it has a very powerful function: digest bamboo, we all know that bamboo is mainly cellulose, most animals can not digest cellulose, only giant pandas can;

3. There is another important reason, the status of the giant panda has been politicized, all major countries in the world, almost can see the figure of the giant panda, the giant panda has become a witness to the friendship between China and foreign people, and recently from time to time to send the giant panda to Taiwan compatriots, just like the table tennis of the year, has become a political resource.

The giant panda has a long history. The fossils of the first panda, the oldest giant panda member ever discovered, were unearthed in Lufeng and Yuanmou, Yunnan, China, and are geologically dated to the late Miocene about 8 million years ago. In the long-term harsh competition for survival and natural selection, many of their contemporaries have become extinct, but the giant panda is the strongest, in an advantageous position, and has survived to become a "living fossil", and the giant panda is endemic to China, as of January 2021, there are 1,864 wild giant pandas in China, so it is regarded as a "national treasure of China".

The giant panda is considered a national treasure of China, mainly because it is an animal that is endemic to China. There are almost no other countries. Moreover, there are relatively few giant pandas, which are difficult to reproduce. And he is relatively tall and belongs to mammals. The appearance is also relatively good-looking.

The giant panda is an animal unique to China. The number is very small, it is a first-class protected animal, and it has a docile personality and rarely attacks humans, which is in line with the Chinese concept of peace-loving.