Mentioning the history of Chinese raising thrushes, it can be said that it has a long history, thrush is mainly distributed in China and Southeast Asia, and in China, thousands of years of thrush breeding culture has been formed. Chinese naturally like to raise thrush, there is a certain reason, first of all, the thrush belongs to the thrush family of noisy grebe, this type of bird in Our country has a total of 33 species, most of them have gorgeous feathers, strong body, can sing and fight, which also has a unique style of thrush appearance, two white eyebrows let the literati complain about poetry and sing continuously.
There are thirty-three species of birds in the thrush family in China, and the thrush actually belongs to the light makeup type among them.
First, the thrush is related to the four beautiful women Xi Shi
The legend of thrush has always had a certain relationship with the four beautiful women Xi Shi, saying that Fan Li was surprised to see a group of brown birds chirping around Xi Shi non-stop. When Fan Li asked Xi Shi for the names of these birds, Xi Shi immediately gave them the name "Thrush".
Folk believe that the origin of the name thrush is related to Xi Shi, one of the four beauties.
Speaking of which, we can understand that at least during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chinese had noticed this unique songbird, and the origin of the name thrush was based on its unique appearance characteristics.
Bird keepers believe that the length, size, and truncation of the thrush's white eyebrows all determine its personality
The Song Dynasty was the first peak period in Chinese history to raise thrushes
In the Song Dynasty, with the prevalence of bird culture, the breeding of thrushes reached a fairly mature stage. The most direct evidence here comes from the poetry of the Northern Song Dynasty writer Ouyang Xiu, who once wrote the popular "Thrush Bird". His poems: a hundred voices and a thousand voices move at will, the mountain flowers are high and low, and the first knows that the lock is listened to the golden cage, and it is not as easy as the forest to cry. This poem borrows birds to convey people, expressing life's yearning for freedom.
The ancient Chinese painting "Sketching Rare Birds" was painted by Zhao Tuo of the Song Huizong, which depicted 12 species of birds that were popular at that time
The thrush in "Sketching Rare Birds", occupying the branches, is singing loudly
Chinese learned to paint flowers and birds, in any case, he could not get around Song Huizong's "Sketching Rare Birds", which painted a total of twelve kinds of birds, including thrushes, peacebirds, magpies, Dai Sheng, larks, crested larks, bead-necked doves, etc., which shows that in the Northern Song Dynasty, these twelve birds have been familiar to the world and even widely raised.
An old man walking his eyebrows in the 1980s
Thrush became one of the four major songbirds, mainly chirping power
We know that the four major songbirds are indigo chin, lark, thrush, embroidered eye, thrush has a large volume, ranking first. Although it belongs to the big voice, it can also be gentle and beautiful, which is really valuable, and how can people not like it? In fact, thrush is especially good at imitation, not only can imitate the song of a variety of birds, but also learn cat and dog barking, horn sound, flute sound, and even some also learn human language, sing songs.
Third, the serial murder of the Song Dynasty was actually caused by a thrush!
Shen Xiaoguan killed seven lives in one bird.
The twenty-sixth volume of the "Yu Shi Mingyan" in the Three Words and Two Beats is "Shen Xiaoguan One Bird Harms Seven Lives", which tells a strange case that occurred in Yuhang, Haining County during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Song Hui and the year, and there was a local Shen surname Jihu, who gave birth to a son and was named Shen Xiu. Shen Xiu is not doing his job, he is good at playing with the wind, he loves to fight thrushes the most, pay attention! An important reason for raising thrushes during the Song Dynasty was to fight, and fighting was mainly for gambling.
Thrush fights in cages
Today, dou thrush has become a custom and event for some ethnic minorities in the south
Then we focus on this serial murder case of the Song Dynasty, and it is not difficult to find at the beginning that Shen Xiu's thrush is unparalleled, relying on it to win money everywhere by playing games, "winning hundreds and ten times every time." After walking a bird, Shen Xiu fell into a coma because of a child's hernia. Zhang Gong, a cooper who passed by, saw that the bird was greedy for money and wanted to take it for himself, and also took the opportunity to kill Shen Xiu and throw his head into the tree hole.
Shen Xiu's thrush is the best of the birds, bringing the disaster of killing the master.
The story of "Shen Xiaoguan One Bird Harms Seven Lives" also unfolds with the thrush, and there have been plots such as the vicious son killing his father and taking the head to take the bounty, the fainting official beating into a move and injuring people by mistake, Zhang Gong was put on the spot after the case was solved, and Zhang Po died in shock. A thrush becomes both the fuse and the key to solving the case.
A thrush can peek into the social state at that time
When it comes to this, many people will ask, "Three Words and Two Beats" are novels, can novels be taken seriously? The answer is yes, we know that most of the ancient novels are derived from reality, "Shen Xiaoguan A Bird Harms Seven Lives" should be the author according to folklore to change and polish, and the author also found that according to the "Picture Seeing and Hearing Chronicle", the youngest son of the great painter Huang Tsuen served in the court at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, mostly based on the rare birds and turtles raised in the palace as the main theme for creation. The palace is like this, and the folk bird breeding customs should be more prosperous.
Is the thrush really the "logo" of the Brothel in the Qinglou Brothel?
There is a folk saying that there are thrushes hanging at the entrance of brothels
This is from a reporter's interview in Qinghai in 2013, when qinghai people's favorite birds were hemp, jade and larks. But when it comes to thrush, a local master Liao, who has raised birds for more than 30 years, told reporters that before liberation, thrushes in Qinghai were placed at the door of brothels to call guests, so the old Qinghai people are particularly taboo. You don't have to say, thrushes draw eyebrows, there is really a little meaning.
Whether the thrush is a bird for the "logo" of brothels is still inconclusive
To this end, the author specifically consulted the relevant information and found that the thrush is a bird for the "symbol" of brothels, which may be a local custom in the history of Qinghai, and there is no similar statement in other parts of China. In "Shen Xiaoguan One Bird Harms Seven Lives", Shen Xiu's thrush was eventually paid tribute to the royal family, so the thrush is a bird for the "symbol" of the brothel, and it can only be said that it is a modern local saying. In short, thrush into birds also eyebrows, "dirty water" splashed on the body also stems from eyebrows. Next, let's talk about whether we can raise thrush again at present.
The police investigated and punished the release of thrushes
In the southern region of China, there has long been a tradition of raising birds and fighting birds, and although the thrush has a long history of raising fighting birds. However, on February 1, 2021, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued a new version of the "List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection", which listed Thrush as a national second-level key protected wild animal, and the state began to severely crack down on the capture and sale of thrushes.
In February 2021, a man in Huiyang, Guangxi Province, was criminally detained for buying and monopolizing thrushes
On September 6, 2021, a villager in Guizhou was detained for selling wild thrushes
Thrushes are listed as second-class protected animals, on the one hand, because in the past two decades, the number of thrush breeding has increased year by year, directly affecting the number of wild populations, second, the living environment of thrushes has been seriously damaged, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of areas, and third, the previous behavior of exporting thrushes has also affected the population. With the thrush being banned from breeding, the culture of the thrush caged bird formed around it is no longer beautiful, and it can only ripple in the memory of bird lovers.