China's first book of poetry, The Book of Songs, began with Guan Yu, which was written by a bird: "Guan Yu's dove is in Hezhou. My fair lady, a gentleman is good. " Poetry begins with the singing of birds, which leads a gentleman to love his wife and opens a precedent for poetry. There are 77 bird names in 305 articles of The Book of Songs, many of which are still in use today.
There are many sentences about birds in Tang poetry, and the poet Du Fu often sings about birds and paints. For example, "two orioles sing green willows, and a row of egrets go up to the sky"; "The butterflies dance from time to time, and the warblers just crow"; "look up at the geese in the clouds, and birds will do"; "I am north, I am south, spring water is flooding, and I only see seagulls day after day"; "Since I came to Liang, I have been close to seagulls in the water"; "Mud melts into swallows, sand warms and sleeps in mandarin ducks"; "Green grass, birds and flowers" and so on. All kinds of birds jumped from the paper. Other poets, such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei and Du Mu. There are also famous poems about birds.
In the works of Su Shi, Yan Shu, Xin Qiji, Lu Zhou and others in the Song Dynasty, the image of birds also appeared from time to time.
Ouyang Xiu, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, was full of praise for the poem Wild Magpie: "Fresh hair, shiny feathers, and red walls covered with green branches. Warm wind is light, words are soft, and you should report good news to your master. "