Beijingers have been keeping birds for a long time. Bird keepers, there are idle classes for the most. Literati raise more larks, indigo chins, and red seeds; the strong raise more thrushes; and the land sellers raise more jiaozui and "old Xi'er". Whether it is a literati inker, a famous pear garden, an apricot forest national hand, a coachman, a car driver, a car driver, there are good birds, but the nobles are different. Fortune tellers raise more domesticated yellow birds to deceive people with their tricks. In the early years, there were many pigeon breeders in Beijing. In Mr. Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi" and Mr. Cao Yu's "Beijinger",
There are descriptions of pigeons. The pigeon market in old Beijing is very lively, such as the Temple Of Protection Temple on the seventh and eighth days of the lunar calendar, and the Longfu Temple Meeting on the ninth and tenth days. In addition, there is a special pigeon market in Hua'er City outside Chongwen Gate.
At temple fairs, caged pigeons come with their hands and cars. There are many varieties of pigeons, such as short-beaked, iron cattle, green hair, seven stars, purple dots, purple jade wings and so on. In late winter and early spring, Beijingers are accustomed to going to the Wanchun Pavilion in Jingshan Park to admire the landscape pigeons. Although the cold winter is still there, the pigeon whistle will also make people feel the vitality of the ancient capital.
The birds raised by bird lovers are roughly divided into two categories: one is to see - ornamental birds, focusing on the color, frame and posture of the birds. One is listening- listening birds, focusing on appreciating the sounds of birds, such as thrushes and larks belong to this category, as for the third category that is not yet in the flow, it will be slightly mentioned later.
The value of birds varies. Cheap three or five dollars a pair, expensive three, five hundred or even eighteen thousand. This first depends on the place of origin, such as parrots, pay attention to Shandong Qingdao, thrush pay attention to Sichuan, lark pays attention to Zhangjiakou production. Hongzi has to be from Henan. Not an authentic source, the price is slightly lower. Second, look at the coat color, demeanor, appearance, and excitement.
Suddenly I remembered the flower market in Beijing, the bird market and the fish market. Old Beijing lived under the imperial city, many people have no worries about food and clothing, so they cultivated a small hobby of flowers, birds, fish and insects, which is called cultivating sentiments, in fact, it is rich and idle.
First of all, let's talk about raising birds, if you watch TV dramas, talk about the late Qing Dynasty or the early years of the Republic of China, people in Beijing always have to have a bird cage, why, universal. Now it's the same, old people like to keep birds, and in the morning they take to the park or the street garden to go to the sentry post. The most common bird is probably the lark, because it sounds good, and you can learn other birds. When our family used to live in the bungalow, a neighbor raised a few larks, birds are not good,and sparrows are fat spots, usually cages are covered with black cloth, I have not understood why, probably afraid that larks will see what to learn and smash the mouth. I read a novel, that is, a lark, and it says that a lark is best able to have thirteen mouths, that is, to learn thirteen different birds. I haven't heard it, but I've heard the lark cat bark, which is a bit like it.
In addition to larks, thrushes, orioles, parrots are also commonly bred birds. The name of the thrush is very good, the voice is also good, and it looks better than the lark water spirit, so there are many people who like it. I never knew whether it was this bird that was named Thrush when it was first seen, or whether it was after the first cultural people had the joy of 'thrush depth into time and time', and some people saw this bird and named it Thrush. It seems that we have to ask this model husband in 'Zhang Chang Thrush', whether there was a bird name thrush before him, and he drew it for his wife according to the eyebrow of the bird. Yellow oriole needless to say, yellow feathers look very pleasing, and love to call, is a good foil for acid writers to describe the scenery, 'two yellow orioles singing green willow, a line of egrets on the blue sky' how reasonable the color matching, at once will be the scene of spring in front of your eyes, can not hide. The crow students didn't have this treatment, and when they said it, it was 'dead vine, old tree. The crow's permeated so desolate. Isn't it because people look black and have hoarse voices, but unfortunately, if the crow students will learn rap on their own voices at the beginning, maybe they will also be red, and they have to learn bel canto with people, and they will delay themselves. Far from it.
I myself have had parrots for a while, and it started out as a couple, tiger parrots, which are very beautiful. When I brought it, I bought a birdcage to raise on the balcony, the sound is not good, but the stop is cute. Later, when I grew up, one day I actually looked through the window and saw a parrot riding on the back of another one to realize that it was a male and a female, I was going to the balcony to tease them, seeing this kind of rated R scene, I quickly quietly hid behind the window to observe, I think if I just ran over to tease them without looking at it first, they would be very upset. Later the parrots laid six eggs and hatched six birds. I also tried to teach a bird stunt when the birds were just learning to fly, because I saw parrots on TV that could do stunts or something, but it didn't work. It was a little bird that learned, and as soon as I reached out, it flew up to me. Later in the cage this family has begun to breed, regardless of siblings or whatever will not be close relatives. Their reproductive ability is really not much worse than that of mice. Then I couldn't keep it, so I took it to the bird market and sold it all.
Probably the bird middle school acrobatics are faster than the price of the old West, I have not figured out what the scientific name of this bird is. This kind of bird will bump melon seeds, bite small flags, and crack steel or something, and it can be seen occasionally at the Spring Festival temple fair in the past.