I've always prided myself on Chinese deductive function.
Relative to English, you just need to know the word "car", car, train, taxi, bus... Even if you don't recognize the other words, you can guess that the word is probably a means of transport and with wheels; in the English context, car, bus, taxi, train, you don't know you really don't know, you can't guess.
For example, mountain lions, jaguars, you have not seen, you can probably guess what it is, but puma, jaguar, it is difficult to guess.
Although English also has a root, a root, with a prefix or something, but it is really not as convenient to use as Chinese, for this reason, I was proud.
Until I met bird taxonomy.
Black iron
A foreigner came to China from thousands of miles away, and on the first day he learned the word "hundred", the next day he learned the word "ling", and on the third day he learned a word "lark", so he thought it was Chinese medicine.
There are many similar birds, thrushes, starlings... There is no Chinese culture, even if you know every Chinese character, you don't know it's a bird.
silver
Foreigners stayed in China for a year and mastered some things. Knowing that the thrush mynah is a bird, I also know that all those with bird characters are also birds, such as cuckoos, such as egrets.
But one day he met a fish dog and a bee tiger, and he was confused again, seeing that the name was eating fish and eating bees, but what the hell was that.
Also birds. This is a fish dog
This is the peak tiger
You would say, isn't that a kingfisher, it's called a fish dog, isn't it a common name? Not really, the scientific name of the canonical eight hundred, Kingfisher family, fish dog genus.
gold
Most foreigners stay in silver, in fact, most of the Chinese are also there, if you are not a bird lover and expert, you have no idea, the following thing is actually a bird.
Berau, The Berau, the Berau, you may know, the following goods
But Dai Sheng, you don't know it, it's also a bird, and it's quite good-looking:
Shou belt, actually is also a bird, this name is all up?
Of course, the most unexpected thing is the Dharma monk, and it is actually an order, the order is a major item in the zoological classification, and cats, dogs, bears, and minks are considered carnivorous orders.
Purple-breasted Dharma monk
king
You can at least recognize the thing above, but you may not recognize the thing below.
䴙䴘鸻鹬鸱鸺鸺鹠
These are all official names, all handed down from ancient times, and we know the popular names, such as the owl called the owl, and the partridge, which looks like this:
It's also an owl, but it's small, and the palm is big.
I always feel that the classification of birds is a little strange, probably finches, chickens, geese, cranes, eagles and other major categories, you go down the line, like cats, cats, leopards, clouded leopard species, Sunda clouded leopard subspecies. Eagle genus, owl species, pygmy owl subspecies, you have to be the whole partridge, Chinese is not good enough to study birds.
We want to love birds, and conclude with a introduction to several kinds of ten-year birds in China:
Crested ibis, catch one, more than ten years.
Red-necked cranes, one more than 5 years old and two more than 10 years old.
The following kinds, one less than 5 years, two 5-10 years, three more than 10 years, you engage in the field of attention, don't see the nest on the right pole blind poke, that thing is not big or small, a nest of several.
White cranes, red-crowned cranes, black-necked cranes, white-headed cranes are not on the picture, anyway in China, cranes you don't mess with, basically are national one.
The peacock is also on, and the green peacock is the national one. The white-tailed sea eagle is also not on it, and you can't meet it.
There are several kinds of national ones, but they look inconspicuous, you have to pay attention:
Brown horse chicken
Chinese Autumn Sand Duck
Don't look at the chicken, the duck, the name is ordinary, you can't afford it.
There are also several species of pheasants, the yellow-bellied horned pheasant, the gray-bellied horned pheasant, and the black-headed horned pheasant.
Pheasants are pheasants, you don't think it's the kind that is secretly sold in the market, that kind of pheasant is called ring-necked pheasant, that thing is eaten, and the top big sky will be detained. These are not the same, all are national one, eat a few at will, the older ones may not come out, that is, eat less, and fine you!