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In China, the peacock is regarded as a kind of beautiful birds as well as a symbol of auspiciousness.People usually compare peacocks to beautiful people or things. In ancient China, there was the love story of "The Peacock Flies to Southeast", then the dancer Dao meilan who is famous for pavan is regarded as the "peacock princess". Chinese enjoy the peacocks spreading their tail, and think it is the best time for peacocks to show their beauty.Howerver, In Britain, peacock is the representative of carnality and misfortune.Even this extremely stunning instinct of animals is endowned with negative implication,thus there is such an idiom as "as proud as a peacock " in English.