Between heaven and earth, if there is no one who is most at ease, they either glide with their wings open or fly high with their wings, and they are full of yearning for the sky and freedom. Although human beings have airplanes, after all, they are not their own wings and cannot fly for nine days, which is a pity. Today, I will lead you into the world of birds and birds in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought in the world competed, and hundreds of birds also flew out between the articles and lips and teeth of everyone's bachelors, which were used to pin the ambitions and ideals of these great literati. For example, Zhuang Zhou of the Dream Butterfly, the prophecies in his pen are all compared with birds. For example, carrying the blue sky on his back and flying without knowing thousands of miles, dapeng symbolizes Zhuangzi's desire for leisure. For example, the bird that does not eat dead rats is originally a phoenix, a fictional bird, but its ambition not to seek fame and fortune and to clean up is very ambitious.
In addition to the birds used to pin their ambitions, there are also birds used to satirize kings and nobles in the articles of the Spring and Autumn Warring States. For example, the national bird of the Chu state, the nine-headed phoenix, is a fictional bird that resembles the Guyu bird. Later, it was demonized by posterity and became a strange bird ghost car that children for dozens of miles were afraid of and ate people, that is, the ancestor of the nine-headed pony in Journey to the West. Like the Roc Bird, it was blackened miserably in Journey to the West. However, in the Chu kingdom, the nine-headed phoenix is a solid national symbol. Once used by the King of Chu Zhuang to compare himself, if he does not sound, he has already made a splash, and if he does not fly, he has soared into the sky.
Of course, the mutual conquest of birds can also be used to write fables. Legend has it that after Wei Qi became a major minister of the Qin state, he was so frightened that he rushed to join Yu Qing. As a result, after seeing Yu Qing, Wei Qi was still afraid, worried that Wei Wuji would not take him in, and as a result, Yu Qing instead used Wei Wujie to take in the spotted dove that was being chased by harriers as an example to reassure Wei Qi that Wei Wujie, a magnanimous person, could definitely take him in.
However, because the State of Qin detained Pingyuan Jun, and because Wei Wuji did not want to offend the State of Qin because of Wei Qi, it still refused Wei Qi's request. When Wei Qi saw this, he was immediately disheartened, chose to commit suicide, and exchanged his head for Ping Yuanjun. At that time, although Wei Wuji listened to Hou Sheng's sarcasm and went after Wei Qi again, it was already too late, and Yu Qing resigned from his official post and went to his career as a book editor.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, birds were also closely linked to the fate of the country. "Divine Detective Di Renjie" I don't know if you have seen it, among which the symbol of the handsome brother Jili Khan, the Tiger Head Flying Eagle Great Khan's Ring, is the most domineering treasure in the entire Shendi series, which can command the entire Turkic Eagle Division, the Leopard Division, and these relatively top-level armies. However, the source of its material should not be well known. In fact, the material for this tiger-headed flying eagle comes from the Huns, who are similar to Turkic marriage customs. The imitation of the tiger-headed flying eagle should be the cultural relic selected in "If the National Treasure Can Speak", which is the crown belt of the Xiongnu Dadanyu, the top is the flying eagle, and the middle and lower parts are other animals, which is similar to the structure of the tiger-headed flying eagle. Symbolizes supremacy over power alone.
Like the flying eagle, the elegant and beautiful peacock has a symbol of royal power. Peacock because of its relatively large body when it opened the screen, coupled with the Warring States period of the Bird Jue holiday, so sometimes also written as Kong Jue. The peacock is a symbol of elegance in our country, but in India it was once a symbol of the king, because there have been peacock dynasties in Indian history. This bird appears relatively rarely in the literary works of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is only recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. In addition to the peacock and the flying eagle, the crane was also once a symbol of the country, but its meaning was not good, because the Wei Yigong, who liked cranes, ended up in a more tragic end, which can be said to be a rebellion.
As the iron hooves of the Qin Kingdom gradually approached, whether it was a nine-headed phoenix or a crane, it was inevitable that it would be engulfed by the Xuan Bird. Just like the Xuan Bird at the end of Qin, it will eventually be engulfed by the Great Bird of Chu Han. There are no good birds or evil birds in this world, but people's hearts are changeable, and that's all. In the next article, I will continue to study the animals of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period with you, and explore the legendary stories behind the beasts.