In Shan Hai Jing, Wild West Jing, Huai Nan Zi and other books, there are records about phoenix. In fact, at the earliest time, Phoenix was a general term. The male was Phoenix and the female was Phoenix. Phoenix Qi Fei was regarded as auspicious. Phoenix is the king of birds, with colorful feathers and patterns, and feeds on plants. However, after entering the feudal society, the emperor compared himself to the dragon and called himself the real dragon emperor, while the emperor's wife, the queen, compared herself to the phoenix, opposite to the dragon, so over time, the phoenix merged and mainly favored females.
Although there are many records about phoenix in ancient history books, no one has seen it with his own eyes since ancient times. How about golden phoenix in Shanxi? The first person who discovered the phoenix was Guo Cunsuo, an old man from Liuhe Village, Yuncheng, Shanxi. He is a very ordinary rural person. What I do on weekdays is to herd cattle and sheep, and pick some herbs up the mountain by the way.
One day, he was herding sheep on the mountain and accidentally saw a colorful bird with a long tail. Under the sunshine, it was golden. The old man wanted to have a closer look, but the bird flew away as soon as he made a noise. The older generation said the bird was "golden phoenix", and seeing that something good would happen, the old man scattered the dry food he had brought and sprinkled a little in front of the bird.
As a result, after four o'clock in the afternoon, "golden phoenix" did come again, this time there were still two. The old man became interested, and the next day he fed "golden phoenix" dry food. At first, these birds would fly away when they saw the old man, but after a long time, they were no longer afraid of the old man, and more and more "golden phoenix" came to eat. The old man feeds them twice a day, after six in the morning and after four in the afternoon.
Later, he was not interested in caring whether the cattle and sheep were full. Feeding the phoenix is his primary task, and this positive energy is rain or shine. However, the wife is quite critical of this. In her opinion, her husband just does nothing. Every day his family can't eat anything good. He also saved it to feed the wild birds on the mountain, wasting food and time.
But his wife's complaint has no effect on the old man. He really likes golden phoenix, not the kind of love that wants to tame them with him, but the kind of love that just wants to feed them every once in a while and then treat them as friends. So he has been feeding them for four years. Later, a photographer came to their village, and the old man happily took him to see his precious "golden phoenix". The old man realized that these "golden phoenix" are also called "Golden Pheasants with Red Belly", which are very precious and are the second-class protected animals in the country.
Later, after photographers spread the news of golden pheasant, more and more photographers came here to shoot golden pheasant. Every time, the old man showed them the way. However, in order to solve their accommodation problem, the old man and his wife set up a farmhouse in the local area, and the living environment at home gradually improved. So the old man also said, it seems that "golden phoenix" can really bring good luck, which is a pleasant surprise for him.