Ancient poetry often has imagery associated with "birds",
Different birds are given different meanings,
Some joy, some sadness.
Swallow
As a small bird, the swallow is very popular with poets.
In literary works, swallows have the meaning of parting, downfall, and nostalgia.
In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people.
- Liu Yuxi, "Wuyi Alley"
Ju Ju was sad and weeping. Luo Mu was lightly cold, and the swallows flew away.
——Yan Shu "Butterfly Love Flowers, Juju Sorrowful Smoke Lan Weeping Dew"
Helplessly, the flower fell, and the déjà vu Yan returned.
——Yan Shu "Huan Xi Sha A New Song Wine Glass"
Cuckoo
The cuckoo, also known as the cuckoo, Zigui, its sound is extremely mournful, as if hoping for the return of the son, so it is called the cuckoo crying back, this bird is also called Zigui.
It is often used to render the atmosphere of sorrow and sorrow or the mood of homesickness.
Lin Ying's nest swallow is always silent, but on a moonlit night, Du Yu is often crying.
——Lu You "Queqiao Immortal Night Smell Cuckoo"
The cuckoo cries for thousands of miles at the Spring Festival Gala, and the spring of the country is broken.
——Wang Guowei, "Poppy Cuckoo Thousand Miles Spring Festival Gala"
But the solitary pavilion is closed in the spring cold, and the cuckoo sound is slanting in the twilight.
——Qin Guan, "Taisha Xing Chenzhou Hostel"
Hong Yan
The original meaning of "hong" is wild geese, and the ancients said that Hong geese can deliver letters for people, and "goose letters" and "goose books" often refer to letters.
It often symbolizes homesickness and sadness of travel.
The wild geese are in the clouds and the fish are in the water, and it is difficult to send this sadness.
——Yan Shu "Qingping Le Red Note Small Print"
Drinking golden flower wine together in other villages, thousands of miles are the same as the wild goose sky.
——Lu Zhaolin, "September 9th Xuanwu Mountain Travel View"
The drums cut off the pedestrians, and the sound of geese sounded in the autumn.
——Du Fu, "Remembering Shedi on a Moon Night"
Eagle
The eagle is a bird of prey with a hooked beak and hooked claws on its toes, which is very sharp and preys on small animals and other birds.
In poetry, the eagle symbolizes strength, freedom, ideals and aspirations, or the anguish of losing freedom.
The eagle strikes the long sky, the fish fly to the shallow bottom, and the ten thousand frost heavens compete freely.
——Mao Zedong, "Qinyuan Chun Changsha"
There are dragons worried about losing water, and there are no eagle falcons and high autumn!
- Li Shangyin, "Heavy Feeling"
Mandarin duck
Mandarin ducks, water birds, inhabit ponds and are often male and female.
Literature is used as a metaphor for husband and wife; Also used to call it a couple.
I have to be a mandarin duck and not envious of the immortals.
——Lu Zhaolin, "Chang'an Ancient Yi"
After the sycamore was half-dead and frosted, the head white mandarin duck lost its companionship.
——He Zhu "Half-dead Tong, Heavy Crossing the Gate of Everything Wrong"
Peach roots and peach leaves will always stay together, accompanied by courtesy and double-settled mandarin ducks.
- Nalan Zhide, "A Bunch of Flowers, Yong and Tilian"
Oriole
Orioles, also known as yellow warblers and canggengs, have bright yellow and cute plumage and a clear and gentle song.
It often appears in poems that sing about spring, symbolizing light, joyful feelings.
Two orioles chirping green willows, a line of egrets on the blue sky.
- Du Fu, "Absolute Sentences"
Three or four points of blue moss on the pond, one or two sounds of orioles at the bottom of the leaves.
——Yan Shu "Broken Formation, Spring View"
The pond is full of water and flowers. Yellow birds in the deep language.
——Zhao Ling, "Huan Xi Sha Water Full Pond Full of Branches"
White gull
Such birds are good at flying, can swim in water, and often fly with the tide, including seagulls, silver gulls, terns and other species.
In the poem, the gulls have the meanings of heroism, ambition, indifference, retreat, drifting, sadness and so on.
What a fluttering look, heaven and earth are a sand gull.
——Du Fu, "Travel Night Book"
The wild old man and the people competed, and the seagull was even more suspicious.
——Wang Wei, "Cumulus Rain Rim Chuan Zhuang Zuo"
Thousands of miles to the ship to the flute, this heart and white gull alliance.
——Huang Tingjian, "Ascending the Pavilion"
Crows
The crow was pitch black and hoarse. The time when crows are seen is mostly the dusk of autumn and winter, coupled with the appearance and habits of crows, it has become a symbol of desolation, desolation and decadence.
Dead vines, old trees, faint crows, small bridges and flowing water, ancient roads west wind thin horses.
——Ma Zhiyuan, "Tianjingsha Qiusi"
Outside the slanting sun, jackdaws are dotted, and flowing water surrounds the lonely village.
——Qin Guan, "Full Tingfang, Mountain Mo Microclouds"
On the evening of the river, the south of the river looks north, and the jackdaws fly leisurely.
- Yan Wei "Danyang Sends Wei to Join the Army"
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