Giant pandas go from Ya 'an to the world.
There are three tourism "trump cards" in Sichuan Province: the giant panda, Sanxingdui and Jiuzhaigou, among which the giant panda ranks first. She is a symbol of Sichuan Province and her hometown, Ya 'an City, Sichuan Province.
Magical places gave birth to magical life.
Nature's uncanny workmanship has created a beautiful "landscape bonsai" Ya 'an between Chengdu Plain and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and also created such a magical life as the giant panda. Jin Jia Mountain in Ya 'an is a densely populated area where giant pandas live and multiply, and it is being declared as a world natural heritage of giant panda habitat. The highest elevation of the mountain range is 5356 meters, and the lowest elevation is 1580 meters. It is a mountainous climate with subtropical monsoon climate as the base band. At high altitude, there are spectacular rows of glacial troughs and ice buckets, and at low altitude, there are large and small rivers with developed water systems, mainly Qingyi River, the main stream of Dadu River. There are 429 species of wild vertebrates and about 3000 species of vascular plants, which are called natural biological gene bank and animal and plant museum by academic circles.
1On May 4th, 869, the magical giant panda was captured here by the Frenchman J.A.P. David? After its skin was made into a model specimen, it became a proud treasure of the Paris Museum of Natural History and caused a sensation all over the world. For more than 100 years, giant pandas have made outstanding contributions to international exchanges and scientific research, and Ya 'an has also interpreted a series of touching stories about protecting giant pandas.
J.a.p David 1826 was born in the basque country, France? 1900165438+10/0 died in Paris, France? Academician of French National Academy of Sciences, biologist, devout Catholic and missionary. He loved the study of animals and plants all his life. His 12 years of scientific research and missionary activities in China was the most brilliant year of his life. Representative works include Birds in China and Flora of David. The most brilliant moment was1May 4, 869, because he found the giant panda in Muping area of Sichuan (now Baoxing County of Ya 'an City) that day.
1869 One day in the spring, David left the Dengchigou Church in Muping where he preached and went to collect plant specimens in a deep valley. When he was looking for water in the home of a rich man in a mountain village, he found a strange animal skin in the farmer's home. David, an expert in animal and plant research, has never seen this black and white animal skin. He asked the rich owner what the name of this animal was, and the owner told him it was called "black and white bear". This animal skin aroused David's great interest, and he concluded that this animal is likely to become an interesting new species in science. He asked the master eagerly where he could see this animal, and the master told him that it was on this mountain, and he could catch it as long as he worked hard. 1On May 4th, 869, David finally caught a live "black and white bear". He personally directed craftsmen to make a big wooden cage for the black and white bear in the Catholic church, put the black and white bear in the wooden cage, and observed and recorded its living habits. According to the characteristics of black and white bear's body hair and hairy feet, he concluded that black and white bear is a new species of bear. He hopes to bring this black and white bear back to France and recommend this new animal to the world.
Unfortunately, the "black and white bear" left the free wild life, and the keepers did not understand the living habits of the "black and white bear". When they set out for a foreign country, they fell ill and died. David had to peel off the skin of the "black and white bear" to make a specimen, and wrote down many research materials about the "black and white bear" and gave them to Miller Edwards, curator of the French Museum of Natural History.
David's paper was quickly published in an influential French journal of natural history research, and the "black and white bear" specimen was also exhibited in the French Museum of Natural History. Director Edwards also made an in-depth study of the specimen of the "black and white bear" and David's data, and finally determined its taxonomic subject and species relationship, and finally named the animal "Panda", and the naming person was still David. According to its body shape and China people's habits, it was translated into Chinese and written as "Giant Panda", which has been in use ever since. The giant panda specimen made by David is still kept in the French Museum of Natural History.
As the place where the first giant panda was found, Ya 'an is recognized as the hometown of giant pandas in the world. The Dengchigou Church where David works was built in 1839, with an area of13000m2. It has a brick and wood structure that combines Chinese and western styles, and it has been well preserved so far.
Giant pandas become friendly messengers between China and foreign countries
In old China, it is impossible to verify how many giant pandas were exported from Ya 'an. Since 1955, the state has dispatched 136 live giant pandas from Ya 'an, of which 18 was only given to the United States, Japan, Britain, the former Soviet Union, France, Germany, North Korea and Mexico as a "national gift" by the China government.
In the early 1970s, after "ping-pong diplomacy" knocked on the frozen diplomatic door between China and the United States, then-US President Nixon realized his trip to Beijing on February 2 1972. At the end of the visit, Premier Zhou Enlai announced that the China government had agreed to present a pair of giant pandas Lingling and Xing Xing as "national gifts" to the American government and people. Two giant pandas settled in Washington National Zoo. That year, there was a panda craze in the United States, and 3 million people flocked to feast their eyes every year.
The giant pandas Lingling and Xing Xing are from Baoxing County, Ya 'an City. Lingling's hometown was in the grasshopper ditch of Qizang Township under the Xuefeng of Jin Jia Mountain, where the Red Army crossed, and Xing Xing's hometown was on Huangdianzi Mountain in Yanjing Township, Baoxing County.
On July 2 1 983, the giant panda Lingling gave birth to her cub at the Washington National Zoo, but the cub died after only three hours. For this reason, the World Wildlife Fund issued a press release, and the Swiss Foundation's headquarters flew at half mast, which is the first time in the world. 1992,65438+31In February, Lingling, a giant panda, passed away peacefully at the National Zoo in Washington. The news of Lingling's death was broadcast on the evening news of that day by major American television stations. Washington post and The Washington Times, two major newspapers in the American capital, published the news of Lingling's death and huge photos before her death in the first edition the next day.
Ya 'an Giant Panda is not only a precious treasure of China people, but also a symbol of world peace and friendship. Lingling and Xing Xing went abroad as national gifts and made indelible contributions to the promotion of Sino-US friendship.
Other 16 "national gift" giant pandas were presented to the former Soviet Union as "Pingping" and "An 'an" respectively. No.65438+No.0 and No.2, Lingling, Samsung and Dandan presented to North Korea; Give Japan's "light light blue", "Kangkang" and "Huanhuan"; "Li Li" presented to France; "Jia Jia" was given to Britain; "Welcome" to Mexico; Tian Tian, Quan Quan and Baby were presented to the former West Germany. Every giant panda messenger has a story of peace and friendship between China and foreign countries.
What's more worth mentioning is that in 196 1 year, the United Nations World Endangered Wildlife Fund designated the giant panda as the emblem, and more than ten "giant pandas" were carved from white marble in Baoxing County, Ya 'an, and are still placed in front of the foundation headquarters and branches.
It is incumbent on Ya 'an people to protect giant pandas.
The giant panda is listed as the first rare and endangered animal by the United Nations World Endangered Wildlife Fund. There are only/kloc-0.000 pandas in the world, and there are more than 300 pandas in Ya 'an, accounting for about one third of the national total.
In the early 1980s, the giant panda's staple food arrow bamboo generally bloomed and died, and the news that the giant panda was facing the exhaustion of staple food shocked the world. People of different colors and organizations from all over the world have joined forces to lend a helping hand and save the giant panda. 1983 10 Baoxing county has issued a series of measures to protect and rescue giant pandas, which has strengthened the management of the domestic Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve (established in the 1970s and upgraded to a national nature reserve in 1994) and legalized the protection of giant pandas.
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