Dai Sheng Bird
At nearly three o'clock this afternoon, I went downstairs to get nucleic acids. At the moment, the courtyard was surprisingly quiet. The sun is shining, but it has lost the power of summer. The breeze is cool and autumnal. There was no one within fifty meters.
The daisheng bird, the national bird of Israel, flashed into my eyes, right in the grass of the courtyard, by the bamboo bushes, or foraging for food, or playing. There are a lot of them, about a dozen of them. When people come to him, they leap and move, which is an instinctive reaction. In recent years, Dai Sheng Bird has been active in the yard in summer and autumn. This time, it was the one I had seen in the largest number.
I gave Dai Sheng Bird a name, called Spotted Bird, like a distant relative of a zebra. The feathers are contrasting in color, but they don't fly fast, and I wonder how it survived from predators. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Jia Dao had a poem entitled "Title Dai Sheng" ("The star dot flower crown Taoist dress, The Ziyang Palace Woman incarnates and flies." Can spread the news of the spring in the world, if you go to Pengshan Mo let go"). This can become a beautiful reverie for people, through this small creature, through the ancient and modern.
(Tong Meng Essay 2022.8.29)
