Dear farmers and friends, hello, I am Situ Xiaoqin.
The story of Mei Lanfang's pigeon breeding
Opera people who have watched Mei Lanfang's performance will remember that he has a pair of eyes that are full of care and affection. However, when Mei Lanfang was a child, her eyes were slightly myopic, her eyelids were drooping, the limit beads did not turn well, and sometimes she was in tears. Mei Lanfang has a pair of good eyes as a performing artist, and it is also related to his love of pigeon breeding!
Mei Lanfang has been raising pigeons since the age of 17, and has raised up to 50 pairs. He jokingly called it training an "Air Force unit." Every morning he let the pigeons out, commanded with a long bamboo pole, hung with red silk, as a signal, green is a sign of descent, and when the old pigeons are released and moved for a while, ready to return to the nest, he uses the bamboo pole to direct not to fall immediately, and then grabs the new pigeons, throws them into the air one by one, and lets them mix in the pigeons to learn. After a while, he directed them back to the nest. I am extremely proud to see that the "Air Force Unit" that I personally trained listened to my own command.
Every morning in Mei Lanfang's nearly ten years of pigeon breeding, he has to watch the pigeons fly up into the clouds and do his best to discern whether the pigeons in the sky belong to him or someone else. The pigeon flies very high, and his limited eyes have always followed the pigeon, trying to keep his sight farther away, so that day after day, year after year, the eyes that were originally slightly short-sighted become carefree and radiant.