cuckoo lament(dù juān tí xuě)

cuckoo lament

Cuckoo, commonly known as cuckoo, is also known as Zigui, Duyu and Zijuan. In spring and summer, the cuckoo crows all night long. The sound is clear and short, arousing people's feelings. If you look carefully, the oral epithelium and tongue of Rhododendron are red. The ancients mistakenly thought that it was full of bleeding. It happened that when the Rhododendron was singing, it was just when the Rhododendron was in full bloom. When people saw that the color of Rhododendron was as bright red, they said that it was the blood of the Rhododendron.

Idiom explanation

[name]: the cuckoo cries blood [explanation]: it is said that the cuckoo wails day and night until the blood comes out. It is often used to describe the extreme sorrow. [source]: Bai Juyi's Pipa line in Tang Dynasty: "what do you hear at dusk? The cuckoo cries, the ape cries

legend

As the Tang Dynasty poet Cheng Yanxiong wrote, "azaleas and birds, resentment Yan two he credit, suspected to be blood in the mouth, dripping into a branch of flowers." In ancient China, there were myths and legends about "watching the emperor and crying the cuckoo". Wangdi is the legendary king of Shu in the late Zhou Dynasty, named Du Yu. Later, the Zen retreat, unfortunately the country died, the body died, after death, the soul into a bird, late spring cry bitter, as for the mouth bleeding, its voice sad sad, moving heart, named cuckoo. Rhododendron is often associated with sad things in Chinese classical poetry. Li Bai said in his poem, "when the Yanghua falls and Zigui crows, he hears that the Dragon marks the five streams." Wen Tianxiang's two poems of Jinling post: "from now on, I will leave Jiangnan Road and turn into a cuckoo with blood." The cuckoo's cry seems to say that "it's not like going home, it's not like going home". Its cry easily touches people's nostalgia. Fan Zhongyan of Song Dynasty said in his poem, "it's better to go home than to cry in the green smoke at night, and to find the fragrant trees in the day." It can be seen that the cuckoo or flowers are full of mythological color, reposing the poet's sadness and endless sorrow. For thousands of years, generations of Chinese scholars have regarded the cuckoo as a sad bird and a symbol of sadness. a long time ago, there was a king named Wangdi in Sichuan Province. Wangdi is a good emperor loved by everyone. He loved the people and production, and often led the people in Sichuan to reclaim wasteland and plant grains. After many years of hard work, Shu was built into a land of abundance with plenty of food and clothing. One year, in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, a big turtle in a well became a spirit and a human. However, as soon as he came to the world from the well, he died somehow. Strange is, where the dead body, where the river will flow westward. As a result, the body of Biejing floated up along the Yangtze River from Jingshui, across the Three Gorges, across Balu, and finally to Minjiang River. When Biejing floated to the foot of Minshan Mountain, he suddenly came to life. He went to worship Wangdi and called himself "bieling". It's a coincidence that bieling was meeting Wangdi with a sad face and sighed. He asked why he was so sad. When Wang Di saw bieling, he liked his intelligence and sincerity very much, so he told him why. It turns out that a large group of dragons, snakes and ghosts were driven away by the people of Shu who burned mountains to make wasteland. They were unwilling to leave the land of abundance, and they were even more reluctant to see the people of Shu build their homes into a paradise. They used magic to transport all the stones from the original area of Western Sichuan to the mountains and valleys of Kuixia and Wuxia. They piled up high mountains and built dragon caves and ghost nests. They made waves there every day and brought thousands of streams back to the sea The flood of water is blocking. As a result, the current is getting bigger and bigger, and the water level is getting higher and higher, burying people's houses, crops and even lives in the merciless flood. Large areas of terraces and plains, where people live, have become dark and dirty seabed. It's been a long time since the common people suffered, but no one can help it. As a result, they don't think about the tea and don't enjoy the food. After hearing this, bieling said to Wangdi, "I have the ability to control water, and I'm not afraid of dragons, snakes and ghosts. With our intelligence, we can overcome evil." Emperor Wang was overjoyed, so he became prime minister and ordered him to go to Wushan mountain to get rid of ghosts and save the people. After receiving the imperial edict and bringing many skilled soldiers and craftsmen, he went down to Wushan and fought with the dragons and snakes for six days and six nights. Only then did he catch those ferocious and stubborn dragons and snakes and shut them up in the shanggaoguan under the pile of dragons and snakes. Then, he led the people to fight with ghosts for nine days and nine nights before catching those evil and cunning ghosts and locking them in the gate of Wushan gorge. Then bieling began to chisel the rocky mountains around Wushan into crooked canyons such as Kuixia, Wuxia and Xiling Gorge, and finally led the torrential floods accumulated in Shu to the East China Sea along the 700 Li Long River. Shu has become a land of abundance where people are happy and products are abundant. Wang Di was a king who loved his talents. Seeing that bieling had done so much for the people and his talents were higher than himself, he chose a good day and held a grand ceremony. He gave the throne to bieling and lived in seclusion in Xishan. When he became king, he was "Cong Di". He led the people of Shu to build water conservancy and open up fields, and did many good things for the country and the people. The people lived a happy life, and Wangdi also lived a life of pure heart and few desires in Xishan. But then things slowly changed. Emperor Cong was a little proud of his merits and became autocratic. He didn't listen to the opinions of his subjects or sympathize with the lives of the common people. People are worried about it. When the news came to Xishan, Wangdi Laowang was very worried. He often had trouble eating and sleeping. In the middle of the night, he was still pacing up and down the room, trying to persuade congdi. Finally, he decided to go to the palace to persuade Cong di. So the next morning, he set out from the west mountain to visit emperor Cong. the news was soon known by the common people. They sincerely expected emperor Cong to repent and reflect on himself, so they followed the emperor Wangdi and Laowang in large groups and went to the palace to petition. As a result, they formed a very long team. This, on the contrary, makes things stiff. When Emperor Cong saw this momentum from a distance, he was puzzled. He thought that Lao Wang wanted to take back the throne from him and bring the people to overthrow him. Emperor Cong was so flustered that he ordered the gate of the city to be closed so that Lao Wang and the common people could not enter the city. Wangdi Laowang was unable to enter the city. He leaned against the gate and cried for a while, so he had no choice but to go back to Xishan. However, Wangdi Laowang felt that he had the responsibility to help congdi wake up and manage the world well. He must find a way to go to the city. He thought again and again, and finally thought that only when he became a bird that could fly, could he fly into the gate of the city, into the palace, to the branches of tall trees, and tell emperor Cong himself the truth of loving the people and the world. So he turned into a cuckoo who could fly and sing. The cuckoo fluttered its wings and flew from the west mountain into the city, then into the high palace wall, and flew to the nanmu tree in the imperial garden of the emperor, shouting: "people are expensive! People are dear emperor nacong was also a Qingming emperor and a king worshipped by Sichuan people as an immortal. After listening to cuckoo's advice, he understood Lao Wang's kindness, knew that he was suspicious, and felt very guilty. Later, he became more considerate of the people and became a good emperor worthy of the name. However, Wangdi has become a cuckoo, and he can't change back to his original shape. Moreover, he is determined to admonish future kings to love the people. As a result, the cuckoo he turned into always cried to the emperors for thousands of years day and night: "people are precious! People are dear However, few emperors in the future listened to him, so he cried out bitterly, cried out blood, and dyed his mouth red. He was still not reconciled, and he was still calling "Minggui"! all the descendants were moved by the spirit of cuckoo's continuous efforts. Therefore, generations of Sichuan people solemnly passed down the rule of "don't beat cuckoo" to show their respect. legend 2: according to the records of the king of Shu in the history book, Wangdi ("the seven kingdoms are the kings, and Duyu the Emperors") is called Wangdi. The time is about 666 BC. ）King in Shu, Acacia in the minister bieling's wife, Wangdi with its merits, Zen in bieling. After that, Wang Di practiced Taoism and lived in the west mountain. He became a cuckoo. In spring, he sang, and in the blood, he became a cuckoo. The cry is the cuckoo's call to the beautiful woman who is haunted by dreams. there is also a more popular legend. There is a poor family in Dujia village in the mountainous area of eastern Fujian. There are three people in the family, mother and two sons. The eldest son is more than 30 years old and unmarried. Most of the villagers call him Du da. The younger brother is Du Er. He is 18-9 years old. His brother sells illegal salt to support his mother. Du Dali is big and can carry 300 Jin of salt at a time. Du Erli is small and can barely make a living. One day, when Du Da was passing by a neighborhood to rest his shoulders, because of the heavy burden, the salt load slipped down and crushed a child to death. Life is at stake. Du Da is arrested by the government and put in prison, waiting for the death penalty. It was very difficult for Du Er to sell salt and support his mother. Once, Du Da said to his brother who came to visit the prison, "in two days, I will be executed." Brothers hugged and cried. My brother said, "I'll die for you. I die only one, you die three. Because I'm too weak to earn enough money to support my mother, both of them will starve to death. " Then the younger brother pushed his brother out of the door and went into the cell. Two days later, Du Er became the ghost of death. But Du was afraid of things. He didn't go home to serve his mother. He didn't know where to hide. Du Er's soul turned into a cuckoo and flew around shouting, "brother, come back! Brother, come back While shouting, blood drips out of the mouth. Red azalea grows in the place of fresh blood. Since then, every spring a mountain of red azaleas, people say, this is Du Er's heart and filial piety.

The cuckoo's blood in ancient poetry

Wang Wei of Tang Dynasty

Thousands of ravine trees are towering, and thousands of mountains ring cuckoos. A night of rain in the mountains, trees and springs. Han woman

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