The Mandarin Duck, or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck. The adult male is a striking and unmistakable bird. It has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face and "whiskers". The breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange "sails" at the back.
The female is similar to female Wood Duck, with a white eye-ring and stripe running back from the eye, but is paler below, has a small white flank stripe, and a pale tip to its bill.
Mandarin Ducks in Chinese Culture
Mandarin Ducks are frequently featured in Chinese art and are regarded as a symbol of conjugal affection and fidelity. In the world of Feng Shui, mandarin ducks are used for relationship healing purposes. They are recognized as symbols of a strong and long-lasting relationship.
This strong love and fidelity has credited mandarin ducks with relationship healing properties, especially in Eastern cultures like China and Japan. In Feng Shui, having mandarin duck figurines in your home is bound to enhance your love life.
Due to the overwhelming love and loyalty displayed in this folktale, throughout the ages many people have associated mandarin ducks with unwavering love and fidelity, and have used symbols of mandarin ducks as relationship-healing solutions and cures.
Mandarin Ducks and Feng Shui
Mandarin Duck is one of a symbol for Love and romance. Always depicted in a pair, the mandarin ducks symbolizes togetherness. When you put them as a pair, they will create the kind of Qi, or energy, that is most conducive for lovers to become a married couple.
For those lovers out there, if you need to enhance or re-energized your "LOVE" life, you should really go out a get their mandarin duck and place it in your home.
It is considered a huge taboo to place mandarin ducks in the toilet or bathroom, since this will attract a most unsuitable match which could bring bad luck to the relationship.
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