There is an ancient wooden magpie nest in a certain family's garden. The classical Chinese translation is: "There is an ancient tree in someone's garden. Magpies build their nests on it. The chicks hatched by the mother magpie are almost grown into young birds. ".
The original sentence comes from "Two Magpies Save Friends" written by Zhang Chao in the Ming Dynasty. The main meaning is: There is an old tree in someone's garden. Magpies build a nest on it, and the mother magpie is about to hatch. A little magpie appears. One day, a magpie flew back and forth on its nest and kept chirping. Soon, groups of magpies gradually heard the sound and came over, gathering in the trees. Suddenly two magpies screamed at each other in the tree, as if having a conversation, and then flew away.
After a while, a stork flew from the sky, making a "clucking" sound, and two magpies followed it. The other magpies started making noises when they saw it, as if they had something to say. The stork called "cluck" again, seeming to agree to the magpie's request. The stork circled the old tree three times, then leaned over and rushed towards the magpie's nest, took out a red snake and swallowed it. The magpies flew up and cheered as if celebrating and thanked the stork. It turned out that the two magpies were looking for storks to serve as reinforcements.
About the author
Zhang Chao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. People from Qu'a (now Danyang County, Jiangsu Province) were mainly active during the eras of Suzong Li Heng and Daizong Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty. There are only five of his poems in the "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" (one of them, "Changgan Xing", is also a poem by Li Bai or Li Yi). Zhang Chao's poems, except for one "Poem on Lotus Picking", which describes the life of a lotus picker girl, all express the thoughts and feelings of merchant women.