In the Han Dynasty's "Commentary on the Interpretation of Texts", it was recorded: "Owl, not filial piety bird also." Day, catch the owl. The meaning of this sentence is twofold: one is that the owl is an unfilial bird and will eat the mother; the other is that once there is an owl call, it must be caught and disposed of. In our country, there is a saying that "night owls enter the house, nothing happens", the owl enters the house, and something may happen at home.
I believe that some people will have deep doubts about the owl's ability, after all, it is just an animal. In fact, in the world, animals tend to have stronger perceptual abilities than humans, such as earthquakes or heavy rains, animals will be the first to perceive. The old saying we said today, "Don't be afraid of owls barking, you are afraid of owls laughing" is a summary of the experience of the ancestors and had a guiding role in the era at that time.
Owls are carnivores whose main diet is mice, insects, and birds, and they come out at night and prey at night. Because owls prey at night, they are crowned with mysterious and vicious colors like other animals that haunt at night, such as snakes, tigers, wolves, etc.
Compared to other animals, the owl has three secret weapons that ensure that it can quickly catch food at night. One is the wide range of vision, the owl's head is very flexible, can rotate the head 270 degrees; the second is the ultra-high sense of hearing, the owl can hear the sound emitted from a long distance; the third is the sense of smell, compared to the vision and hearing, the owl's sense of smell is weaker, but compared to humans is very developed. Lock in your prey visually and audibly, use your superb reflexes to quickly catch your prey, and kill with one hit, the owl is the real silent killer.
Back to the old saying, people are afraid of owls laughing mainly because people have summed up from experience that once a loved one dies in the family, the ow will appear. The appearance of an owl in the family will die is not an empty thing, there are three main bases, its own characteristics can find that people are about to die.
One is that owls have a superb sense of smell and can smell rotten flesh, which will attract owls. Second, when a person is about to leave, the body will emit a smell similar to rotten meat, and the owl will go to the family when it smells the smell. Third, when the family is about to die, the family will perceive that some food or dishes will be prepared in advance, which will attract mice, and the owl will catch the mouse out of the foraging habit, thus making a laugh similar to a person.
It is based on the three points mentioned above that the owl can find that people are about to leave, in fact, all rely on their innate abilities and foraging habits. However, in modern society, when people are about to leave, they are basically in the hospital, and it is difficult for owls to smell people, and the frequency of occurrence will decrease. At the same time, in modern agriculture, people use fertilizers and pesticides very widely, and some rats eat pesticides by mistake and are later eaten by owls, so the number of owls is decreasing year by year.
In ancient society, the ancestors summed up a large number of interesting sayings, which are a summary of experience and knowledge, which is conducive to people's life and work. "Don't be afraid of night owls barking, you are afraid of night owls laughing" seems to have no scientific basis, but it actually contains the essence of the wisdom of the ancients. Although this saying is not very practical in modern times, it still learns the spirit of the ancients to seek truth and pragmatism.