"Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo- cuckoo-" In the dream, I heard the crisp and pleasant chirp of the cuckoo, in the clouds of the high sky or in the shade of the green trees, the long and short voices called, so urgent and urgent, as if to summon me, the wandering wanderer, to go home, to look at the endless sea of wheat, and harvest large fields of rapeseed, barley, and peas that were about to ripen.
When I woke up in the haze, waves of nostalgia suddenly rose up, tempting me to think infinitely...
Cuckoo is a common bird in the hometown, the townspeople call it "Kagu Bird", its name is many, such as cuckoo, Zigui, Du Yu, Wangdi, Shu bird, Harvest Valley and so on.
Cuckoos fly from the south in late spring and early summer every year, spend a long hot summer, and then fly away in the fall. It is a lonely and mysterious prodigal son, the townspeople often only hear its sound, it is difficult to find its traces, often hidden among the dense branches and leaves, so persistent and monotonous call, the sound is like crying, the rhododendrons that spread throughout the mountains are infected and blooming, red and fiery, and vigorous. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin has a sentence in the Jinse:
Jinser unprovoked fifty strings, one string and one pillar Sihua Nian.
Zhuang Sheng Xiao dreamed of butterflies, and wangdi chunxin trusted the cuckoo.
It quotes the story of "Cuckoo Crying Blood".
According to legend, in the last year of the Zhou Dynasty, there was an ancient Shu state, the King of Shu, Du Yu, who was called Emperor Wang, and he appointed turtle spirits as his counterparts to control floods, and achieved fame and success, so that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Du Yu saw that his merit was immeasurable, so he gave up the throne to him and lived in seclusion in the Western Mountains. Before his death, Du Yu sympathized with the people's feelings, advised farmers to cultivate diligently, and after death, he still did not change his original intention, he turned into a cuckoo, and every late spring and early summer, he always urged people to "cuckoo" and "fast cuckoo", and when they did not miss the farm, harvest and sow. Inspired by the "cuckoo crying blood" classic, poets often give poems to praise it. The poet Li Bai chanted in "Xuancheng Sees the Azalea":
The Shu kingdom once heard of birds, and Xuancheng also saw azaleas.
One called one ileum and one broken, three springs and three months remember three bars.
Seeing the red azaleas in Xuancheng, the poet couldn't help but think of the cuckoo bird transformed by Du Yu, the king of Shu, and the rhododendrons all over the mountain were opened, and this poignant call made the poet wet with tears and green shirts, and his liver and intestines were broken, when could he return to his hometown full of mountains and flowers!
In the cuckoo chirping, spring is gradually fading away, which makes people sigh that Shaohua is easy to pass away, and youth is no more, but it stimulates the pride of not waiting for me and only fighting for the day. The Northern Song Dynasty poet Wang Ling traced the footsteps of time in the wind of late spring, and the song "SendIng Spring" was passionate:
In March, the remnants of flowers bloom more, and the small eaves of the day swallows fly in.
Zi Zhi cried blood in the middle of the night, and did not believe that the east wind could not be called back.
The flowers will bloom again when they fall, the swallows will fly and will come back, and the cuckoos who love the infinite spring light are still singing persistently in the deep silence, I don't believe that this mighty east wind cannot be called back!
In its homeland, the cuckoo is a friend of the farmer, it is a master of insect catching, mainly feeding on pine caterpillars, dancing moths, pine needle dead leaf moths and other pests of larvae, but also eat locusts, walking beetles, kowtows and other insects that harm crops. According to statistics, each cuckoo can prey on more than 300 pests a day. Not only that, when the crops are about to ripen in late spring and early summer, it also sings in a hurry, collecting and collecting seeds, "cuckoo, cuckoo, ---, cuckoo---" agricultural proverb cloud: "The valley rain arrives, the cuckoo calls." "Cuckoo cuckoo, harvest wheat and plant grain." The cuckoos are barking, the wheat is blooming, the rapeseed is seeded, the barley is yellow, the rice is seedlings... Pile after pile, one agricultural thing after another, the clockwork of the farmer's time is like a day.
In the sound of cuckoo, in the smoke and rain of cultivating cattle, the poets' feelings of compassion for farmers rose up. After the imperial court was about to put an end to the chaos of Anshi, the poet Saint Du Fu could not hide his joy, and wrote a long poem "Washing Soldiers and Horses (After Receiving Beijing)", which included the sentence "The Tian family hopes to cherish the rain and dry, and the cuckoo is everywhere to urge spring planting", expressing the peasants' mood of looking forward to restoring the homeland and cultivating the countryside. Li Deyu, the good minister of the late Tang Dynasty, has always attached importance to farming, and when he heard the cuckoo singing, he remembered that the farmer should be sown in the spring, so he became a song "Remembering Spring Ploughing":
The apricot blossoms in the suburbs and the cuckoos in the forest are singing.
After the spring rains in Harada, the water leveled.
Wild old lotus to, and wind blowing grass lightly.
There is no cause of co-depression, phase and matter rock cultivation.
The crisp and pleasant song of the cuckoo becomes the voiceover of a spring ploughing picture, evoking the poet's heart of retreat, finding a green and lush countryside, and learning to do farming and farming, what a beautiful wish!
Cai Xiang, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was an upright official and had political achievements everywhere he went, especially in paving roads and bridges, planting trees and planting tea. He has a deeper taste of cuckoo cultivation, and in the poem "Cuckoo" he depicts a fresh farming painting for us:
The sound of cuckoo rain fills the hedges, and the cultivation is not known to the wildlings.
He Hoe Mo Dao spring early, it is the time of the Phi Phi Calf.
The language is simple and vivid, and the sense of picture is very strong. He strolled through the spring countryside and felt it:
A plough of spring rain wants to calm down, and it is predicted that this year's events will be successful.
Providence, however, was too lazy to make Cuckoo plow.
- "Spring Suburbs Matter"
A thorough spring rain makes farmers happy, heralding a good harvest and good days of the year. But God is afraid that people are lazy and slack, so he let the cuckoos urge cultivation over and over again.
The Southern Song Dynasty poet Lu You also loved to listen to the cuckoos singing, and he heard the melodious cattle herding tune in the countryside:
The cuckoo cuckoo sky is unknown, and the plough frame is ploughed.
The eunuch is not like a farmhouse, and the east has become a life.
- "The Sound of Birds"
Farming is hard, and farmers are happy, and compared to the ups and downs of the eunuchs, this pure happiness is so desirable! The Qing Dynasty scholar Yao Nai wrote the best about cuckoo cultivation, and he depicted a vivid picture of spring cultivation in the mountains and villages in "Mountain Travel":
Cuckoo Feifei advised early ploughing, and the hoe fluttered to take advantage of the spring eye.
Mille-feuille stone trees are far away, and the sound of water in the mountains and fields is released.
The poem is full of sound and color, blending sound and color, bringing us into a wonderful realm of vitality.
The cuckoo is a symbol of green nostalgia, it calls out, as if to say "it is better to go home", so it has the name of the sub-rule, the sub-rule "sub-return" also, the wandering prodigal son come home quickly.
Xia Li Yun'an County, Jianglou Wing Waqi.
The mountains on both sides are united, and they cry all day long.
Seeing the spring breeze, Xiao Xiao was miserable at night.
The guest listened to this and pretended to be low.
"Sub-Rules"
Du Fu, who lived in the Three Gorges Yun'an, heard the cuckoo song of the valley, looked at the hometown in the spring breeze, sang sadly in the dark night, and the hometown of thousands of miles was only in the blue dream.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, return, return, "it is better to return to the language, it has also been passed down from ancient times." "In the heart of the Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen, it became a difficult knot and a haunting wish:
It is better to go home, Spring Mountain Cloud Twilight.
Ten thousand trees are in the clouds, where is the Shu heavens.
People have wings to fly, and Ann cries out in the air towards the tall trees.
- "Zi Zhi · Better to Go Back"
Can he really throw off the shackles of fame and fortune and retreat to the land of thousands of mountains and ancient woods? He Meizi He Zhu of the Northern Song Dynasty also wanted to return, so he wrote a long poem "Three Birds of The Three Birds of the Three Sons", listing the beauty of the retreat, and sighed: "The sub-rules birds, it is better to return." "Zi Zhi Er is relieved to fly, and I alone have no heart to return." In the end, he could only helplessly say: "In the golden seal brocade, the young man's heart is now old, and he asks for the field from now on." ”
"Flying cuckoos, kind mulberry smoke." (Ming Tongxuan,"And Tao Pengze Returns to The Pastoral Residence, One of Them") Every poet has a subliminal complex of Eastern Jin Dynasty pottery in his heart, a pastoral dream of returning to Xi. An old song "Hometown Feelings" sang well, "The mountains in his hometown are also green, and the water in his hometown is also clear, and it is difficult to lock an inch of my childhood." "He is also a native of his hometown, and he is good in his hometown, and it is difficult to lock an inch of my teenager's heart." "He also has feelings in his hometown, and he also has love in his hometown, but I often walk in my hometown in my dreams..." Zi gui, sub return, it is better to return to also, to find the most original, the most authentic beauty!
-Author-
Liu Qirui, male, a native of Tancheng, Shandong, a veteran literature lover, published the essay collection "The Song of that year", "Nostalgia is a Curved Blue Moon" and the short story collection "Hedong Hexi".