Birds' property
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Exceptions and accidents often surprise people. On that day, December 11 (Saturday), when I visited the Taibai Lake Scenic Area in Jining, I was attracted by a huge bird's nest. I had almost never seen a bird's nest so tall and large, so I looked up and looked at it again and again, and immediately took a video and wrote four sentences:
First sentence: Castle in the air.
This bird's nest is about 2 meters high, the narrowest diameter is about 30 centimeters, a total of 3 floors, is it a duplex building? It needs to be discussed, but it is hanging on the branches, dangling and swaying, which is very spectacular and lovely. Is the use of the word "castle in the sky" to describe it a breakthrough of zero? Discussion is welcome. At least it is a unique "small high-rise". Countless examples at present show that the shape of the bird's nest is changing from "round" to "rectangular", from a single layer to "multi-layer, high-rise", from individual nest to "collective living", the author once found a "three-bedroom and one-hall" bird's nest in a mountainous area! Therefore, the author has reason to think that birds have the wisdom and ability to follow the general trend of human architecture! The birds' "castle in the sky" really makes me envious.
Second sentence: The bird's property.
It may also be that the folk speculation is too fierce, resulting in my birds also have "real estate". Writing here, the author thinks of the famous saying that "the house is used to live, not to speculate". Unfortunately, the current situation we are facing is still: there is no most speculation, only more speculation! There is no most expensive, only more expensive! There are no birds in the world who do not speculate.
Third sentence: The most land-saving building.
Thinking about this statement is not accurate enough, the bird's nest does not occupy a little bit of land at all, let alone talk about saving? Since I wrote it this way, I don't plan to change it, deliberately staying and causing controversy, but it will make people admire the virtues of birds even more. Birds are beautiful messengers who love the land. In short, in the precious land, birds do better than people, do not see how much barren land is covered and circled at the moment? It's a pity!!!
Fourth sentence: There is absolutely no trouble with doing this and that!
On the human side, just land certificates, real estate deeds, intermediary fees, and the tax that is being piloted are enough for you to drink a pot. The worries that the house brings to many families can be called "the first trouble in the world". Because the birds don't need all this, they don't have all these troubles.
Four sentences connected to the small video, I sent it to the circle of friends, immediately attracted a "noise and restlessness", like a cloud. Netizen @ Qingke added another sentence: How many approval procedures have been saved?! The point is that his "ah" word makes me feel as if I heard a sigh from the house slaves. The ghost knows how many people around the "real estate" are running around every day, busy and busy, how many house slaves have suffered tearfully, how many stories need to be told...
Human real estate is too heavy and too complicated a topic, let's continue to talk about the "real estate" of birds. Over the past few years, the author has often traveled, and found that the bird nest is more and more large and more exquisite, which is probably a witness to the improvement of the environment, right? Wherever there is a forest, there will be a bird's nest. In response to the old saying, the forest is big, and there are birds. We once encountered a row of bird nests in a mountainous area, which we jokingly called "residential communities". Are there "neighborhood committees"? Bird experts are looking forward to visiting and giving answers.
Humans have a long tradition of coexisting with birds day and night. No matter where we live, we seem to be surrounded by birds, and their "houses" are sometimes built in our houses, all of which are partners under the same roof. The joy and revelation that the bird and its nest bring to us will be endless. For example, in order to conserve precious land resources, can humans build houses into the air like birds? According to Baidu data, experts have long conducted research in this area. Human beings can fully spread their imaginary wings, let their snail dwellings "fly", fly higher and farther, and move a little place for this increasingly crowded earth space.
Some readers may remember the little poem I wrote three years ago, and now I take this opportunity to revisit the old poem, and Quan Zuo's heartfelt praise and expectation of the birds:
Bird's Nest
Dead branches make material
But it is the ideas of architects who are woven
Choose points on branches that are suitable for nesting
Dreaming
Build a house
Cultivate wings
Practice
An eye for all risks
A new round of awakening
Look
For the sake of settling down
Actually, it is
Fly more stretched
Just ask
Bird's nest and cradle
Which is closer to God
……
(Written on December 15, 2021.) Illustration: Zhou Xiaoxiang( photo)
【About the author】Zhou Changxing (male), born in February 1949 in Huangnan Village, Nanzhan Town, Wenshang County, Shandong Province. He joined the army in February 1969. In September 1990, he returned to the local government to work for Jining Television. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior journalist and a poet. He has published long-form reportage "The Place where Kunpeng Took Off", long-form biographical literature "Don't Get Drunk and Don't Say Qiao Yu's Love of the Great River", "Qiao Yu's Love Song", "Great Us", "Big Wave Gold Rush" and so on. He was the author of the 39-episode large-scale TV series "Dajingjiu" of CCTV, and its "Commentary on Dajingjiu" published by Railway Publishing House has been used as an official textbook by the Communication University of China. After retirement, he devoted himself to the writing of online literature and won praise from readers at home and abroad for his grounded and independent works. The concept of "work first, reader first, life first" is the motivation and goal of his efforts to cultivate the subliminal folk.