Why did ancient literati prefer to raise geese rather than mandarin ducks?

Goose is a kind of "poultry" raised and domesticated by people for a long time. It has won the love of many people with its graceful posture, gentle personality, loyal master and understanding. The most famous person who loves geese in history belongs to Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There are many stories about his love for geese. For example, the biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin said that he was a "sex goose". I heard that an old woman in Huiji kept a goose, and she was good at singing, so she taught people to buy it. When there was no result, she went to see it herself. When the old lady knew that Wang Youjun was coming, she "cooked for him", which made "Xihe lament for a long time". Another example is "Wang He Lun Shu Biao", which records that a Taoist priest in Tanshixiang Village, Yin Shan raised more than a dozen geese. When Wang Xizhi learned about it, he went by boat early in the morning. I was very happy to see it, so I wanted to ask the Taoist priest to sell him some. The Taoist priest replied that he was "good in nature and wanted to write about the Taoist priest on the river for a long time, but no one could write it." If you can bend the two chapters of Tao Te Ching, join the league to serve. " Wang Xizhi readily agreed, immediately settled down, and spent half a day "writing and returning to the cage". This is what people are still saying now: "Huang Ting has changed all the geese in Yin Shan with a volume of words." The so-called "winning things in the mountains". Because Wang Xizhi was honored as a "sage of books" by later generations, he attracted wide attention from scholars and poets. Poet Li Bai intoned: "When a Taoist in Yin Shan meets, he wants to write a yellow court for the white goose"; Han Yu, a great writer, praised Wang Xizhi's words in "Shigu Song": "Count paper for white goose"; Li Qunyu, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, is good at cursive writing and likes raising white geese. They thought that calligraphy could be inspired by the image of the goose, so Lu Guimeng said: the pen is as fine as an escape (the word of Wang Xizhi), and the calligraphy is changed to a white goose; Fan Chengda said: "When the white goose is full, who knows that the wrist is happy"; Pi Rixiu said: "Zhai Xin once raised cranes, and he waved his hand to invite geese"; In a poem sent to Li Qunyu, Zhao Lu bluntly affirmed: "Wonderful blowing should be in harmony with the phoenix, and writing a book will be a goose"! Painters are even less willing to fall behind. They carefully draw various postures of geese when drinking, pecking and resting with gorgeous colors, and put them in gardens and flower beds, especially in the brilliant Song Dynasty, which produced a large number of famous paintings with the theme of painting geese. According to "Xuan He Hua Pu", Cui Bai, Teng Changyou, Zhao Xiaoying, Qiu Qingyu and other famous flower and bird painters all painted geese. At that time, the "goose paintings" collected by the imperial court included Cui Bai's "Two Gooses in Xinghua", "Two Gooses in Qiuchi" and "Two Gooses in Bailian". Teng Changyou's Peony Sleeping Goose Map and Lotus Sleeping Goose Map; Zhao Xiaoying's "Lianbei Goose Scene" and Qiu Qingyu's "Wild Goose Scene" are both dozens. People love to raise geese, and geese have become people's friends. They have much more exchanges of ideas and feelings with people than chickens, ducks and other poultry. Legend has it that there was once a small official named Zu in Yuezhou. On the way in the morning, he met a farmer. He picked a load of geese and went to the market to buy them. When the geese on the cargo saw him, they called him eagerly, as if calling for help. He bought them and sent them to a temple, hoping to treat them as "longevity geese". Unexpectedly, these geese refused to enter the temple and followed him all the time, so he had to take them home. People's raising geese means beauty, and releasing "Longevity Goose" is a kind of "kindness" and an activity to wish Geely.