An olive branch is an olive branch. Bible stories regard it as a symbol of the earth's recovery, and later western countries regard it as a symbol of peace. The Bible Genesis records: "This happened in February 17. On this day, the source of the huge abyss all burst, the skylight was wide open, and the rainstorm poured down the earth for forty days and nights. "
Noah and his wife, with the ark, drifted in the flood for 40 days and ran aground on the mountain. In order to find out whether the Chu flood receded, Noah first released the crow, and then released the pigeon twice, until the pigeon he released for the second time took back the olive branch, indicating that the flood receded.
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Other applications of olive branch:
1, United Nations emblem
1945 10 In June, the United Nations was formally established. Its emblem pattern is to set off the whole earth with two olive branches, which means to fight for world peace. Five years later, in order to commemorate the world peace conference held by socialist countries in Warsaw, the Spanish master Picasso waved his hand and drew a pigeon with its head held high and its wings spread. The famous Chilean poet Nie Luda called it "the dove of peace".
2. Military emblem
Throughout the world, there seems to be only one example of the United Nations peacekeeping forces using the olive branch as a military emblem! The olive branch symbolizes peace here.
In fact, most national military emblems adopt patterns such as wheat ears, pine branches, oak leaves, laurel, etc. Among them, the shape of laurel twig is close to that of olive branch, symbolizing "victory", and oak leaves look like vegetable leaves, symbolizing "courage".
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