Magpie has been a popular bird since ancient times and a symbol of good luck. People regard magpie as a symbol of good luck, and there are many beautiful myths and legends about it.
In daily life, we have a lot of contact with birds, so we have different feelings about birds: for example, in "Bird Quotations", magpies say that "it is cloudy to sing and rainy to sing, and people are happy to hear the sound"; On the contrary, crows are very annoying to everyone. As soon as I heard its voice, I spit and stamped my feet, saying that it would cause trouble.
Magpie is a common bird, which often appears between the foot of the mountain and the edge of the forest, between trees, roofs and crops around villages or cities. In the early morning, they often fly to open fields and vegetable gardens in pairs or in groups in search of food. They are omnivorous birds.
According to the investigation of scientific workers in Nanjing and Hunan, more than 80% of magpies' food a year is insects that harm crops, such as locusts, mole crickets, scarabs, moth larvae or pine caterpillars, and 15% is the seeds of cereals and plants, as well as snails and melons.
Why is the chirping of magpies regarded as a good omen?
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.