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Bright Culture Weekend Edition: Romance of Chinese

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Author: Han Shaogong

White gauze skirt, feminine hands and siblings, dazzling rotation, elegant curtain... At that time, the ballet "Swan Lake" was a wonderland in the dreams of many Chinese, and almost became a symbol of beauty, nobility and purity. However, as a pearl of the Romantic art era, this story about the swan is not new in Europe, it is nothing more than a prince and a princess who eventually become a good family. This kind of story benchmarks the mood of the court and the nobility, and also leads the aesthetic yearning of literary and artistic youth all over the world.

I almost once had this yearning, when I learned to play "Little Swan Dance" with the violin, and later when I applauded the scene of the performance in Petersburg, I did not have a sense of temporary substitution of spiritual identity. We are all graceful and worried about the swans, but we don't know, or even intend to know, about that kind of life. Art, after all, and reality are two different things, how to dream and how to live do not need to correspond one-to-one - is the kind of big bird of the goose-shaped duck family really important? In that moment, in that breath-taking artistic wonderland, we treated the stage as the whole of life.

After all, life is much bigger than the stage, and it is much more difficult to be complicated. Until I met Xu Yaping, I didn't know that the larger "Swan Lake" had actually been by my side, in ordinary days. He was a resident correspondent of the provincial newspaper, and he had been running errands for decades, sometimes with messy hair, and seemed to be a greasy man who lacked self-motivation — but he tossed a non-governmental organization, the Yueyang Porpoise Protection Association. This time, aquarists also became bird friends, because a little swan tracker signal was abnormal, they went to the scene to rescue, along the way over the mountains, lost in the rain, vehicle traps, teammates fell ill, wading in the swamp, and finally only in the GPS signal stationary position, found a tracker, apparently discarded by which hunter. Blood on the ground and scattered feathers, and circles of limbs struggling... At this point, he choked up.

He probably didn't know Tchaikovsky, didn't understand Pavlova, and had never seen the wonderland of Swan Lake. But who can say that he is not a real "prince", a hidden hero who has been repeatedly injured to protect the beauty of the world?

From his mouth, I learned that although the swan has become a classic symbol of Western poetry, music and dance, the homeland of the swan is not limited to Europe, not limited to Denmark and Finland, which worship it as the national bird. Whenever the winter cold approaches, they all move south, away from the Arctic Circle, flying over the Siberian and Mongolian steppes, changing their names to "honghu" (or more streamlined "hooves" in the Chinese, which is also known as the "goose" in general, to the north and south of the great river they are familiar with, to the two southernmost wintering areas of Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, another of their homes. Dozens of trips from south to north, in this kind of long journey, they have to deal with not only a demon "Rothbart", but also thousands of years along the way to prevent the net, beasts, birds, storms...

It was this long journey of suffering that stirred up another "prince.". Like Yaping, Zhou is naturally also a disciple of Huxiang, a bit of introversion and poetry in the family tradition, in middle age in the foreign business circle to start a successful business, and then return to the homeland of Dongting, and then continue the old dream of many years ago, even if he pours out his family property to become a "bird man". Because of his creativity, he only used a few microblogs to make the online activity of "following the geese to migrate" a blockbuster, and tens of millions of photos of boyou involved in geese were instantly posted, almost crowding the website. The state of guerrilla guerrilla warfare, with the help of the Internet, a new tool, has transformed into a major event of eight-party cooperation, wide-area guardianship, and efficient coordination, and has become a social movement with heat waves. Many men and women of science and engineering were invited or inspired by him to bring their own dry food to join them and throw themselves into the self-deprecating "neurotic" frenzy. Here we have to talk about Zhou Libo and Zhou Minghui. These two PhDs are almost starting from scratch, nibbling down the chip, sensing, power supply, antenna, packaging and other problems, step by step to do the performance of the tracker, the weight, energy consumption, and price down. In the end, the R & D team forced the French 40-gram piggyback tracker to be less than 20 grams, and the lightest one weighed only 2.3 grams, like a piece of hair.

Therefore, with the help of high technology again, wide-area guardianship has been upgraded to "wide-area + full-process" guardianship. If necessary, almost every swan can have a number, nickname, and file, and can display the track, landing point, and physical status on the computer. People were surprised to find that the swan actually flew like this: a point of light on the screen could span one or two thousand kilometers in one breath, and if they took a breath, and spent several days in a certain territory and rubbing (presumably eating and accumulating fat), the point of light could once again throw four or five thousand kilometers in one breath and cross the entire vast Siberia - they may end up tired and only have skin and bones, their will, their physical strength, how amazing! People have also found that the two points of light on the screen can be accompanied by shadows for a lifetime, even if there has been a period of separation (perhaps one of them is greedy, gambling, not in love, advocating freedom), but the most likely following is that they are reunited like yesterday, and they can be accurately retrieved across the mountain and the sea, which cannot help but make human beings sigh. Of course, the last thing bird lovers want to see is that the two points of light on the screen stand still for a long time until they are extinguished (is it the same accident?). Maybe there was a desperate attempt to save each other or a martyrdom? Think about it, Bibi, these lovers are born with the same heart, die in the same cave, meet with fate, return to have a covenant, and their bird hearts are touching.

And so on, a mysterious bird world is gradually revealed here, and a bird history needs to be rewritten. A folk bird protection movement not only boosted local wildlife protection institutions, not only brought together the government, the media, the police, teenagers, associations, entrepreneurs, photography enthusiasts, farmers, fishermen and herdsmen, but also released new academic value, quickly attracting human resources from colleges and universities and scientific research units.

A new way of organizing has also emerged, which is not easy to understand. These "princes" and "bird people" come from all walks of life and all levels in seemingly incompatible places, no leadership, no finance, no salary, not even amateur societies, but everywhere, such as space dust from time to time, but always able to respond to a hundred responses, come at the moment, do their best, coordinated and orderly, low-friction operation. They have set up one sign after another for the migration of migratory birds, promoted relevant national and local legislation, and even Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Australia and other places have also swarmed together, forming a transnational circle of feelings on an increasing scale. They plotted on the map "bird paths" that led to the canyons and passes needed to cross the mountains; Discover and maintain "bird harbors", the large wetlands needed by migratory birds to feed and roost, equivalent to rest areas during the trip. According to the abnormality of the satellite signal, they can also find one risk point after another that may cause tragedy in time, and make emergency dispatches again and again. When doing so, they do not have the power to enforce the law, even if the blood in their hearts can not exceed their authority, but they can at least achieve online targeted mobilization, quickly recruit dozens or hundreds of bird friends near the risk area, put into the scene of publicity, dissuasion, evidence collection and reporting, form a strong wave of public opinion and administrative response, to curb the disaster to the greatest extent.

On one occasion, they successfully rescued a white-tailed sea eagle injured by electrocution from a factory in Jilin Province – by which time the scope of custody had been extended from swans to all rare wild birds. They performed the country's first raptor pawing operation on the Weipeng 8, and over the next four years, they captured satellite signals of its nine cross-border migrations, including repeated entry and exit from a farmyard somewhere in Baicheng, which was quite suspicious. This guy must be addicted to eating chicken! Is it too much to compete with people for a proper gluttonous foodie? The squad couldn't resist reminding the careless owner afterwards. Unexpectedly, after the peasant woman learned the mystery of the remaining bones and feathers in the courtyard, she smiled: "What is it, I will leave a few more for it to eat this year." "As a big grain grower, is she too rich to care about dozens of chickens, or can't find any other way to thank these well-wishers who have come from afar?"

Wild geese, in heaven,

Pairs are lined up.

The river is long, the autumn grass is yellow,

The sound of the piano on the prairie is sad...

This song Xu Yaping always can't finish singing in the car, and bird friends often sing together on the line. This time, entrusted by bird lovers across the country, a convoy of these Chinese grassroots "princes" with lenses, computers, telescopes, and propaganda materials really "followed the geese to migrate". Starting from the No. 01 Migration Monument in Dongting Lake, they crossed thousands of mountains and over thousands of waters, lasted ten days, traveled more than 2,000 kilometers, and finally arrived at the border port of Ganqimaodu in Inner Mongolia, and watched inextricably watching one group after another of the birds move north.

The long pavilion is connected to the short pavilion, and the sunset follows the star bucket. The wheels chase the wings of the geese, and the birds sing in response to the song tide. The words "one" and "person" in the sky blurred and clear in the tearful eyes, clear and blurred, one moment cut off by the mountains, the next moment falling into the clouds. This is how joyful and sad the animal kingdom and even the biological world are, and what a strange and newest festival on earth. Perhaps, Huiyan Peak, Yellow Crane Tower, White Crane Temple, Yanming Lake, Yanmen Pass, Yanqi Lake, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Yandang Mountain, this long list of ancient place names, will therefore awaken one after another, one by one began to sprout, stretch, bloom, reproduce the appearance and luster, and then continue their respective silent stories, silent millennia of vicissitudes and romance.

At 11:00 p.m. on March 27 of that year, the moon rose from the Ula Pass. Yaping told me that at this time, a few of them chasing the wind and sending birds were still waiting on the shore of Wuliangsu for a long time, looking at the endless northern night sky, and one by one they couldn't help but burst into tears. They wanted to stay here until the moment when the word "one" and "person" in heaven returned to the south in the autumn.

Guangming Daily ( 2022-09-09 15 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily

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