Chapter 165 (1/2)

Fang Ye quoted scriptures and said: ”for a long time, owls have been regarded as unlucky symbols among the people. A bird that people fear and hate is called” night owl ”. The related proverbs are biased and derogatory.

”When night owls come into the house, good things don't come”; ”Wu Dalang plays night owls, who plays birds”; ”if you're not afraid of night owls, you're afraid of night owls laughing.”.

There is a legend about owl laughter, that is, when a chronically ill person hears the owl laughing in front of the window, in fact, he is counting his eyebrows. When he counts his eyebrows clearly, the patient will die.

There is such a passage in Xiaoao Jianghu that Linghu Chong was seriously injured. When Lu Dayou was taking care of him at night, he suddenly heard an owl crying outside. He was frightened. He immediately dipped his finger in some spittle and put it on Linghu Chong's eyebrows, so that the owl can't count.

Lu Xun also said, ”sometimes I never want to win in the field of speech, because sometimes my speech is a roar of owls and reports great bad luck.”

”Lu Xun: I really said that!”

”I used to think that night owls refer to cats that spring at night. It turned out that they specifically refer to owls.”

”I've heard my grandmother tell the legend of owl laughter!”

“66666！”

Fang Ye continued: ”the owl is so annoying and regarded as an unlucky symbol. One reason is that it is really mysterious. It always haunts the wilderness when the moon is dark and the wind is high. It makes a sad cry and eats some rotten meat of mice. People naturally associate it with negative images such as disease and death.

Moreover, owls also have a habit. After eating food, they will spit out indigestible bones and fur for a period of time. The spitting things are a ball, which is called food ball. Many predatory birds actually spit out food balls.

The ancients couldn't understand this strange behavior, so their brain holes opened and thought that the owl ate its mother.

Think it is a kind of unfilial, vicious and cruel bird!

Especially in the Han Dynasty, which respected filial piety, owls were considered unfilial birds. You can know how miserable they were.

The explanation of the owl in Shuowen Jiezi is: ”unfilial birds also. When the sun comes, catch owls. From the bird's head on the wood. ”

It means that such an unfilial bird should be caught during the day, cut off its head, and hang its head on a tree to warn its peers.

”Han Gong Yi” even records that ”at the summer solstice, all officials and owls are given soup, and they want to be unique.”

He said that the emperor would give the minister soup made by owls and encourage people all over the world to catch and eat.

Here we remind you that all wild animals carry all kinds of pathogenic bacteria and parasites. Remember not to eat game! ”

Netizens are stupid!

”Shit, so the owl looks miserable!”

”It's more unjust than Dou E. For no reason, he carried a big pot of unfilial birds and was killed by all kinds of people.”

”Fortunately, there is no such superstition now.”

”Poor owl!”

”Well, the cruelest is actually people.”

”Well... I suspect that the ancients wanted to eat it without psychological burden, so they put such a curse on it!”

Fang Ye added: ”owls are misunderstood and infamous, but they are actually real mouse catchers. According to statistics, an owl can eat an average of 1000 mice a year.

The monkey faced Eagle looks like a ghost. It is even more fierce to catch mice. It can eat 2000 mice in a summer alone.