Provenance

The fairy crane is recognized as a first-class cultural bird in Chinese history.

A fairy crane standing on the rocks above the wave, with the homophony of "tide" and "royal court", symbolizing "first-class as a dynasty" like the prime minister; the pattern of fairy cranes flying in the clouds, symbolizing "first-class rises"; The pattern of the crane flying at sunrise symbolizes "the rising of the sun".

The civil servant's supplementary service, a civilian embroidered fairy crane, listed it as an important symbol behind the royal dragon and phoenix, so people also called cranes as ”first-class bird". At the same time the crane as a symbol of senior officials in Chinese culture.

The fairy crane in Taoism is also the supreme bird of gods, especially for its longevity. In the Taoist book "The Seventh Sign of Yunzhi", Zhang Daoling can travel by crane. Taoism believes that after cultivation of vital energy, the soul and body can ascend to the sky and live forever, thus reaching the realm of the gods, "resting with heaven and earth, and living with the sun and the moon."