Oriole pigeons
Pigeon is pronounced búgou in Huangxian dialect, and how these two words are written has always been unclear. Later, when I turned to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the "pigeon" article called it also known as "oriole pigeon" and "flying slave": "The pigeon is sexually lascivious and easy to combine, hence the name." The oriole, its sound also. Zhang Jiuling passed on the book as a pigeon, and his eyes were flying slaves. "The seventy-fourth time in the "Water Margin" Yan Qingdai Temple, a move "Pigeon Spinning" threw Optimus Prime Renyuan under the ring, thinking that the action was somewhat similar to the pigeon circling in the air. So why is "Partridge Pigeon" pronounced búgou? There is no bo sound in Huangxian dialect, and "鹁" is pronounced as be. Huangxian was once the seat of the Beihai Special District Commissioner's Office, and a hospital under the special office was called "Beihai Hospital", which was abolished in May 1950 and its jurisdiction was assigned to Laiyang Special District, but Beihai Hospital remained in Huangxian and did not move away. There was a time when the big sign of the hospital was hung with "Bohai Hospital", and it turned out that in the Huangxian dialect, "Bo" and "North" were pronounced as be (the tone was slightly different, "Bo" read Yangping, "North" read on the sound), because the two pronunciations were similar, so there was a oolong. Others such as "Rao", "Spinach", "Excited" and so on also read this way. According to the pronunciation rules of Huangxian dialect, when the soft rhyme changes, "e" is pronounced as "u", such as "wife" and "chaihe". However, in the word "oriole pigeon", "oriole" is not located at the end of the word, so there is no soft rhyme, but it still follows such a rhyme law, and I can't understand what the reason is.
There are several similar cases: "ink" is pronounced mo in Mandarin and me in Huangxian dialect, such as ink, but sometimes it is also pronounced as mu, such as: Tiandu ink black shadow; he has a long ink black ink black. "Mo" is pronounced mo in Mandarin and me in Huangxian dialect, such as silent writing, but sometimes it is also pronounced as mu, such as: you are silent and quiet. "No" is pronounced mo in Mandarin, and me in Huangxian dialect, such as haunting, but sometimes it is also pronounced as mu, such as: he is the most able to eat old and no child; let's lie on the old man, right? You're silent! Children have lost their front teeth, and huangxian dialect is called "toothless mouth". "Mo" reads mo in Mandarin, and me in Huangxian dialect, such as vague, but more often it is pronounced mu, such as: they are all raised by themselves, what to do and divide into three modes and two? "Dial" is pronounced bo in Mandarin and be in Huangxian dialect, such as appropriation, but it is often pronounced as bu, for example: he is a grandson, and the more he dials Lou, the harder he gets. Coax the child to sleep, the child is not drowsy at all, the head is turned around, and the adult will say that he is "like a rattle". The umlaut law of "oriole" from bo to be to bu is consistent with the above examples, indicating that this is not an isolated phenomenon, but there is a umlaut law that we have not mastered.
In the development and change of speech, compared with vowels, vowels are more likely to change, and vowels in different changes are retained in local dialects, which is why vowels are more likely to have upper tones. Rhyme mother uo and e are differentiated from the rhyme mother o, some of the rhyme mother e and the root of the tongue sound vowel g, k, h spelled words, to the Huangxian dialect rhyme mother has become uo, such as a, song, brother, shelving, 硌; ke, tree, branch, stone, lesson, shell, tadpole; and, he, river, lotus, he, box. This shows that Mandarin finally clarified uo and e, while Huangxian dialect stagnated when the two were still entangled, so it retained the original appearance of the first chaos. Of course, not only the Huangxian dialect exists in this phenomenon, shandong dialects are more or less there, a hearing called "big cauldron (brother)" and "two pot (brother)", nine times out of ten are Shandong people. The "pigeon" of "oriole pigeon" is pronounced as guo in Huangxian dialect, and when it rhymes softly, "uo" is pronounced as "ou", "ear", "clam snail", and "whipping" are all pronounced in this way.
Pigeons are birds of the ornithopod family, and are now arguably the most familiar birds, and many scenic spots have pigeons for tourists to feed and feed to show the closeness and harmony between man and nature. There are also many enthusiasts who like to raise carrier pigeons, and often organize competitions, pull out to see who returns to the nest first (technical terms called Racing), and even several magazines teach you if you choose pigeons to raise pigeons and domesticate pigeons. When I was young, food and clothing were still a big problem, and any act of wasting food to raise pets was a crime, so the township government would organize dog fighting teams from time to time to eliminate the dogs raised by each family to save food. Pigeons are vegan, and it is impossible for anyone to raise grains to eat. The reason why I have a concept of the oriole pigeon is to listen to the adults in the village, on the east stream in the east of the village, there is a cliff that goes straight up and down, and people can't go up and down, a group of wild oriole pigeons live there, at most there are thirty or forty, flying out in the morning to find food, and coming back at night.
Rock pigeon
Wild oriole pigeons are the most fond of eating green beans, and when the green beans are ripe, wild oriole pigeons can often be found in the field. Later, I learned that the scientific name of the wild oriole pigeon is "rock pigeon", one of the ancestors of the domestic pigeon, living on the rock wall, like to nest in the cave or between the crevices of the rock, grass roots, never stop on the tree, so later I saw the pigeon crouching on the branch will feel a little out of place. I have a friend from DongnanShan, Huang County, and he said that there is also such a place in their village, which is called "Oriole Pigeon Pond" by the people in the village. It seems that as long as there is a suitable nesting place, the vitality of wild partridge pigeons is still very tenacious.
One year, it was the season of mulberries, and I went to the north slope to pluck rabbit dishes and pick some mulberries to eat. The northern slope is a continuous hill with terraces carved out below, with mulberry trees planted at the top of the slope. At that time, we talked about "taking grain as the guideline and developing in an all-round way," so we planted cotton and rice in our village, but we all failed. Later, I wanted to try to raise silkworms, so I opened up mulberry fields on the north slope. Every year in May and June, when the mulberries are ripe, the north slope is my first choice for pulling rabbit dishes. For some reason, although I have never seen the production team picking mulberries to sell for money, but at this time there must be an old man watching the mountain crouching under the mulberry tree, perhaps afraid that when we pick mulberries, we will pick some mulberry leaves and go back to feed the rabbits? Anyway, this old man is very bad, always waiting for us to pick a handful of mulberries, only to "snort" out of the catch, causing us to jump all over the trees, chickens and dogs jumping. So every time before entering the tree, I had to circle around the outside in half a circle to determine the location of the old man looking at the mountain. That time I was about to go in after making sure I was safe, when I suddenly noticed a flock of gray-blue birds on the south end of the terrace below, larger than the crows, pecking at something. The land was spring, there was no winter wheat, but there were beans to grow long fruits. It should be the beans of the wild oriole pigeons planted in the planing! My heart skipped two pounds. I was not good at climbing when I was a child, so I never had my share of picking up crow eggs in trees and picking up houses under the eaves, I could only be a cheerleader below, and if I could catch a wild pigeon that only smelled its name and did not see its bird, it would definitely be my highlight moment. I went around, around to the terrace below the wild oriole pigeon, the south end of the ground is a stone-like ground, almost three meters high, it is not a small challenge for me, but the desire to catch the wild oriole pigeon makes me pluck up courage, the foot protrudes from the stone, the fingers hold the stone slit, but also do not make a sound, an inch up, finally almost to the top, can hear the wild oriole pigeon "boogu, boo", I slowly reached out, to determine the location of the wild oriole pigeon, the result is revealed, In front of me is a wild pigeon, it is the color of slate gray as a whole (wild bunting pigeons are all this color, only domestic pigeons have white, which is the result of artificial breeding), the head color is slightly darker, this may be a male wild bird pigeon in front of me, the base of the neck and the front chest have a patina and purple metallic luster, shining in the sunset, almost blinding my eyes! I've never seen such a beautiful bird! Apparently the wild oriole pigeon reacted faster than I did, and after a moment of astonishment, before I could stretch out its hand, it had already "fluttered" up, made me a mouthful of mud, and left me with two thin feathers that were slowly falling. I lay on the ground and looked at the pigeons in the distance, not relieved by the amazing glimpse for a long time.
Later I had another encounter with the wild oriole pigeon, only this time it was dead. That time my father carried a native gun up the mountain to fight rabbits, turned around for half a day and did not see a rabbit, when he came back, he passed a green bean field, saw a small group of wild oriole pigeons, and the gun contained medicine was not easy to take home, so he shot at the group of oriole pigeons. The wild oriole pigeon is not big, only about half a pound, not worth the trouble, just "bald and bald" hair stew, let me nibble alone. The taste of the wild bird's flesh is now forgotten, only its two pectoral muscles, very large, bulging like a small leather ball.
Addendum 1: The partridge pigeons are relatively strictly monogamous among birds, and the husband and wife raise two young birds in a litter and secrete pigeon milk to feed the young birds. Birds and can lactate, the partridge pigeon is the only one, of course, the pigeon milk is not secreted by the breast of the bird pigeon, it has not yet evolved this thing. The birds' sacs (which are the bulky part of the temporary storage of food in the back of the esophagus, not the sand sacs of the "purses" and "bush cheeks" in huangxian dialect) are generally only used as a place to store food, while the sacs of the pigeons bear the function of lactation similar to that of mammalian breasts. New pigeons in the late incubation stage, under the action of prolactin, the epidermis of the sac multiplication, the glands of the sacs begin to be active, until the little orioles hatch, by squeezing the chest of the pigeons, the pigeons will have a chick reaction and secrete pigeon milk. The pigeons only lay two eggs in a nest because the pigeons have limited milk secretion and cannot be fed. If one side has a heart, even these two young birds will not be able to feed, so Li Shizhen's statement is unreliable.
Supplement 2: In the Huangxian dialect, the rhyme mother of "bird" and "magpie" is uo, the "bird" of "house bird" is pronounced the original sound, the "magpie" of "crow" is gently rhymed, and "uo" is pronounced as "ou", which is the same as the "pigeon" rhyme law of the bird pigeon.
Let's talk about the oriole pigeons
I once wrote an article called "The Partridge Pigeon", which talked about the wild oriole pigeon in the mountains of my hometown, that is, the rock pigeon, which likes to perch on rocks or cliffs, which is why it got its name. The unit also raised a group of oriole pigeons, full of food and drink like "row sitting", squatting on the branches of the trees, always looking a little strange, let me think of Tao Yuanming's "dogs bark in the deep alley, chickens sing mulberry tree upside down".
Arboreal partridge pigeons
It was later learned that another evolutionary ancestor of pigeons was the arboreal forest pigeon. Over the years, the blood from their ancestors has also influenced the choice of how they inhabit.
The balcony on the west side of the third floor of the office building was converted into a loft, which is the home of more than twenty oriole pigeons. The lofts are divided into bookshelves with planks, and the bunting pigeons make their homes in pairs, mating, incubating and feeding their offspring. On the lawn in front of the office building, there are feeders and sinks for the pigeons to eat and drink. The blue sky, white clouds, green grass, and flying pigeons make the yard more and more quiet and deep. However, one day, the happy life of the birds was interrupted, they no longer returned to the loft, a few unhatched eggs also gave up, although they went to the feeding point on the lawn during the day, they flew to the nearby roof platform to stop roosting, and even did not come back at night. After observing for a long time, I didn't know where the problem was, until one day, a colleague saw a small yellow-red figure jumping down from the downspout pipe of the office building. It was a weasel (scientific name weasel),
Shame on the wolf
In Huangxian dialect, it is called "water wolf" (here "wolf" gently rhymes, "ang" is pronounced as "eng", "water wolf" is pronounced as "water wolf"), "water wolf". In the Amazon rainforest, one of the largest individuals in the ferret family lives, the great otter, which locals call "water wolves" because they cooperate in fishing and act like wolves in the water. As a small point of the ferret family, the weasel is not good at swimming, so why is it called a "water wolf"? It may be that its front legs are short and its back legs are long, it runs like a wave of water, and its nature is like a wolf that eats blood, hence the name. In the legend, the weasel is a magical creature, and the Huang County folk worship of Wong Tai Sin refers to it (folk beliefs have hu, yellow, white, willow, gray five immortals, refers to fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake, mouse five kinds of animals with supernatural colors). It is said that it can drag a chicken that weighs many times heavier than it over a wall, and the trick is not to bite the chicken to death in one bite and use the chicken's struggle to climb upwards. A small child holding a younger sibling who is not much younger than him, dragging his feet, the adult will say, "Look at you and the water wolf biting the chicken." "There is at least a litter of weasels in the yard of the unit, I have seen a weasel mother with three babies walking in a string on the opposite path, see people are not afraid, you stop to observe it, it also stands up to measure you, "you stand on the bridge to see the scenery, the people who watch the scenery look at you upstairs." It is said that "curiosity kills cats", and I see that the weasel's curiosity is more than that of cats. Once, when I was running in the yard at night, a weasel ran with me on the grass next to me, and then I thought that running was too boring and boring, so I left with a satisfying curiosity. The downstairs where the loft is located is planted with a lot of climbing tigers, whiskers and vines are wrapped around the downspout behind the building, and the PVC downspout is no longer slippery, which is almost flat for the weasel who is good at climbing. Climb upstairs, climb over the roof and down to the loft, over the mountains to eat you. The loft became a weasel cafeteria, wanting to eat eggs, wanting to eat suckling pigeons and eating suckling pigeons, trying to change the taste and catching an adult oriole pigeon, and the oriole pigeons had to flee with their families. Later, the barbed wire was covered next to the loft, and the small yellow dog of the unit was tied to the downspout, which avoided the visit of the weasel, and the fleeing oriole pigeons could go home and work in peace.
After a while, the pigeons are a little strange and become particularly vigilant, eating and drinking are collective actions, after eating and leaving, usually stay near the loft, easy not to stay away. Later, it was found that on the southwest corner of the south courtyard of the unit, there were two black pines that grew particularly luxuriant and tall, and two large birds had recently nested among the branches, and people who approached would hear the heavy fluttering sound of the birds flying away. One day the flock of pigeons had just taken off, and two birds flew from the south courtyard and began to chase the flock, which turned out to be two falcons (the tip of the falcon's wings is pointed, unlike the eagle's wing tip is flat, and has five to seven wing fingers, which is easy to identify). The pigeons tightened their formation in the air, suddenly left and right, suddenly up and down, engaged in a golden snake dance, making the falcon dazzling, and could not find the opportunity to lower its claws, so it had to fly away, and the pigeons also hurried back into the nest. The two falcons, like two shepherd dogs, flew from time to time to drive the pigeons around, making the pigeons loveless, and one careless would turn into a pile of pigeon feathers on the ground. Fortunately, the two large pine trees are close to the avenue outside the wall, and the people come and go all day, and the falcon is overwhelmed, and I don't know when to move. The days of the partridge pigeons are leisurely again, all day on the lawn "mida" square steps, while "bo - grunt, bo - grunt" shouting, while looking for fallen grass seeds to eat, see people do not fly, the body shape is also obviously fat, this is simply to become a chicken rhythm ah.
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