The image of birds has been widely used in poetry. The types and frequency of descriptions show the close relationship between birds and human life. The devotion of human emotions endows birds with richer cultural connotations and aesthetic values.
Among many bird images, cuckoo and partridge are two common ones. There are many similarities and different meanings between them.
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First, the source of the images of "cuckoo" and "partridge"
Rhododendron, with a slender curved mouth, blue-gray back and small yellow feet. It has many aliases: Machi, Mochou, Zhou Yan, Du Yu, Zigui, Xie Bao, and Bird of Complaining. ...
The record of cuckoo birds can be traced back to Shan Hai Jing: "Birds are full of dead pigeons", The Book of Songs: "A female has a nest, a female lives in it" and "a pigeon lives in mulberry". Here all refer to "cuckoo", a kind of cuckoo.
But the ancients generally distinguished the meaning range of "cuckoo" and "cuckoo". The cuckoo they wrote originally came from the Songs of the South: "I am afraid that the thrush will sing first, which will make my husband's grass grow ugly."
In the long process of development, it has gradually produced rich cultural connotations and implications. Compared with other dynasties, the Song Dynasty is the peak of the use of cuckoo images, which is overwhelming.
Red-legged partridge
Like hens, partridges have quail heads. The chest is covered with white spots and the feet are yellow-brown. There are many aliases: Yue pheasant, Huai Nanzi, Yang Sui and Bi Tinggong. ...
The earliest record about partridges is in Shan Hai Jing: "There are birds in Huang Ze that look like black and white, and they are called partridges learning birds", which is considered as partridges here. In The Selected Works of Zuo Si Wu Du Fu, it is recorded that "partridge swims in the south and is in the middle". Partridge is a bird of South Vietnam, and "its ambition is to cherish the south".
The image of partridge appeared late in poetry and was widely used in Tang and Song Dynasties. There is also a special usage of "partridge"-the name is included in the epigraph, such as "partridge sky", "Swiss partridge", "partridge quotations" and so on, and there are many words used. After the development of past dynasties, its application has appeared multiple meanings.
Similarity of the Images of "Du Fu" and "Partridge" in Poetry
A hundred kinds of sadness
Cuckoo and partridge's cries are mournful and very emotional, which easily affect people's melancholy and are closely related to sadness. It seems to be "the seed of sadness between heaven and earth" and is regarded as a substitute for sadness.
The idea of traveling and the fear of not going back.
In late spring and early summer, cuckoos crow day and night. It sounds like "it's better to go home", so it's called "the bird that urges home" or "the bird that misses home" The partridge sings loudly and rhymes, like "You can't live without your brother".
The wandering wanderer, hearing the cuckoo and the partridge, touched the fragile strings in his heart and couldn't help feeling sad. The sadness of traveling and homesickness are infinitely magnified. Through the sound of cock crow, a sad and sentimental atmosphere is rendered.
Listen to Du Yu and persuade people to go home.
After crossing the street sign, there is no guest shadow, and a mountain of autumn rain is crying.
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