Because magpies have been loved by people since ancient times and are a symbol of good luck, people are most willing to decorate their new houses with cut and paste "magpies climbing branches" at festive weddings in rural areas. This is also a very common theme in Chinese painting, which often appears in China's traditional poems and couplets. In addition, in the folklore of China, all magpies fly to Tianhe on Tanabata every year to build a magpie bridge to bring the lost cowherd and weaver girl together, so the magpie bridge often becomes a symbol of love between men and women in China culture.
According to the investigation of scientific workers in Nanjing and Hunan, more than 80% of magpies' food in a year is insects that harm crops, such as locusts, grubs, scarabs, moth larvae or pine caterpillars. And 65,438+05% are the seeds of cereals and plants, as well as birds, snails, melons and weeds. So magpies are very beneficial to human beings. Hard-working farmers, working in the fields in the early morning, see magpies jumping in pairs on the grass to chase pests, and will not avoid humans, so they have a love for it, and its loud and monotonous chirping is hailed as a good omen.