The moral of the magpie:
One: the symbol of sages.
Everyone knows that magpies have a nice voice. Whether singing or barking, no matter where and where, the rhythm and tone of its sound are the same. In the eyes of Confucianism, those sages and gentlemen, like magpies, should have the qualities of constancy, stability, clarity, perseverance and consistency. Therefore, Confucianism often requires people to learn from magpies and regard magpies as some kind of template for sages.
Two: happy home.
In fact, the meaning of magpie is so beautiful, which depends entirely on the sound of magpie. Magpie's voice is "Haw, Haw", which is a bit like "Happy Home, Happy Home", so we have always said that magpie is a symbol of happy home, which means happy home.
Three: Meet at Queqiao.
I wonder if you have heard the legend of "Meeting on the Bridge"? Because of this, the Milky Way is also called "Magpie River". Valentine's Day in China is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is in Chinese Valentine's Day. On this day, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl get together, and magpies dedicate their feathers and bodies to build a bridge. So, after this day, many magpies are naked. Of course, this is just a legend, just a beautiful moral of magpies.
Four: it symbolizes good luck.
There have been many portraits of magpies since ancient times, because magpies symbolize good luck. Two magpies called "Welcome" face to face; Adding a copper coin between two magpies is called "happiness in sight"; If a badger and a magpie look at each other up and down under a tree, it's called "merrily merrily". As for the most popular one, the magpie stands at the top of the plum tree, which is also called "beaming".
Magpie (scientific name: Pica pica) is a bird of finch family. * * * There are 10 subspecies. The body length is 40 ~ 50 cm, and the male and female feathers are similar in color. The head, neck, back and tail are all black, showing purple, green, blue and green luster from beginning to end. The wings are black and there is a big white spot on the shoulder. The tail is much longer than the wings and is wedge-shaped. The mouth, legs and feet are pure black. The abdomen is bounded by the chest, and the front is black and the back is white. Stay birds.
Habitat is diverse, often found in human activity areas, like to nest in trees next to houses. Most of them live in pairs all the year round, omnivorous, foraging in the wilderness and fields, preying on insects, frogs and other small animals during the breeding season, stealing eggs and chicks from other birds, eating fruits, grains, plant seeds and so on. Each nest lays 5 ~ 8 eggs. Eggs are light brown, cloth brown and grayish brown spots. Female birds hatch eggs, the incubation period is about 18 days, and they leave the nest about 1 month.
Except South America, Oceania and Antarctica, it is almost all over the world. There are 4 subspecies in China, which are found all over the country except grassland and desert areas. Magpie is a symbol of good luck in China, and it has been a custom to draw magpies to express happiness since ancient times.
Morphological characteristics:
Male adult birds: the head, neck, back and tail are covered with bright black feathers, the back neck is slightly purple, and the back is slightly blue-green; The shoulder feathers are pure white; Waist gray and white mixed. The wings are black, and there are large white spots on the inner side of the primary flight feathers, and the outer side and tail end are black with blue-green luster; The secondary flight feathers are black and have a dark blue luster.
The tail feather is black, with a dark green luster, and has a purple-red and dark blue-green broadband at the end. Chin, throat and chest are black, and throat feathers sometimes have a white axis; The upper abdomen and lateral abdomen are pure white; The lower abdomen and covered legs are covered with black feathers; Axillary feathers and alar feathers are pale white.
Female adult bird: the body color is basically similar to that of male bird, but the luster is not as remarkable as that of male bird. The lower body is black or dark brown, and the white part is sometimes stained with gray. Young bird: looks like a female bird but the black part is brown or dark brown; The white part is dirty white.
The iris is dark brown; The mouth, tarsus and toes are all black.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia Information Link: Magpie