Friday, April 22, 2011

City hear cuckoo

Six years ago, a summer of dawn, I was writing, suddenly heard cuckoo noises.The voice came from beihai direction, are gradually called gradually far to the left, northeast about half a minute has disappeared in the distant horizon.This is my 40 years in Beijing first heard cuckoo noises.I'm very excited.I am even more excited about this time of year after, I can hear cuckoo calls, is still in that direction, still only then several voice, fancy already with my ear violations for more than forty years of cuckoo calls, now in Beijing so prosperous again actually the metropolis center heard.

I've been like dujuan.In the countryside, each to early summer hear cuckoo call is very unusual things.Cuckoo and other birds are different, and it never in the village nest nest of tree home, breed.So, I have no a glimpse of the cuckoo, do not know it ruthlessly hidden long what appearance.I like just cuckoo noises.As a child, as long as the cuckoo a call, I whistled to learn it, time grows return true practice learning cuckoo call vocals, others sounds still feel like?

Cuckoo calls has distinguishing feature very much, is four syllables, melodious, phonology feeling, to speak.Especially in the stillness of night in the moonlight, in the boundless field, it is not rushing over slowly slowly, sound journey flight voice is melodious, twitter, deep, with some sadness, like a lonely old man walking wander aimlessly, endless soliloquize.It come from?Where is it going?Who knows, because it is not very clear, articulate sounds semantic some ambiguity, don't know what it says.Because of this, just give people leaving the gallop of imaginary space.So, for cuckoo calls, just have a variety of different understanding and each kind of understand all depend on a story or legends.

The cries of ancient books is "said cuckoo, though never so homely.This comes from the ancient shu dujuan WangDuYu legend: look, no, stretching up to the emperor of phase's wife, gradually and die, its soul into cuckoo.Another theory is that turtle cold look emperor meritorious, hewn wushan thinks hydrogeophysical-remote DE thin, hence wu to and into a cuckoo.After looking into cuckoo's description of "not as return, day and night, though never so homely," often notes blood.So, MeiYaoChen "cuckoo poems said" shu emperor in spring, the year waters, though never so homely language dujuan. Since ancient times to preach the. "alsoIn the romance of also said, "do not believe o YangYingLi listen to duyu eclogue green, though never so homely." word

It is so moving because cuckoo cuckoo's legend right, as a kind of bird to appear in the ShiFu songwriter in wen people."Meanwhile, DuJuanTiXie ape what DanMu smell matter-of-fact."(bai juyi) "ZhuangShengXiao dream butterfly, looking for love." benito cuckoo's(li shangyin) "don't go jiangnan road from TiJuan take blood into."(ShengJu wen tianxiang) shall faithfully.Especially we have read carefully, taste such works, often can have a strong emotional experience, is when they wrote cuckoo, often be in borrow cuckoo in order to build, catharsis a touching, sorrow and misery moods or complex, this became a given cuckoo in wen people a kind of culture contains.Obviously, cuckoo in their eye or's has become a unique cultural symbols.

However, in people's mind, but otherwise a culture dujuan contained.In Beijing area, as a cloud of cuckoo calls understanding people for "wang gang brother".There's also a legend ": long ago, a farmer who had dead wife, leaving a son called wang gang. Then the farmer took a wife, also bring a son. The mind mismanagement, after his wife to make her own son inherited house alone, future trying to kill wang gang. One day, she put the two son call to him, give them a rotten let them to the mountain to kind of, says that when the millet sprout who kind of long who can come back. A few days later her own son happily back, wang gang didn't come back. Because his grain is cooked. Her own son waited a few days I have yet to see brother wang gang returned and were into to find. But how also can not find. And so, he becomes a bird. From day to night, overflow hill shouted" wang gang over LingDe brother "brother", "wang gang. So, people called cuckoo" WangGangGe bird "in our country. I believe, who can hear sound area, because dujuan of different ethnic, regional cultural features of the difference, the understanding of dujuan calls will have many differences. And as each different understanding, will have a moving story or legend, to further enrich cuckoo culture contains.

Cuckoo name is also a lot of, for instance ZiGui, rush to duyu, etc., but it but don't call cuckoo.However, there are many people but cuckoo and cuckoo mix combine into one.Even the contemporary Chinese dictionary (business press in December 1978 publishing) also say "cuckoo... also called duyu, cuckoo ZiGui" or.This is misunderstood, or parrot.

With my own ears I heard cuckoo calls without prior, also do not know the cuckoo is it cuckoo.Once, I in yangzhou meeting.Meanwhile, I am and poet cui ink qing to lake playing, heard the cry: "cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo", its voice, crisp, agile, clear, and lively, but only two syllables and cuckoo calls is completely different.This is my first time to hear the cuckoo noises.Later, I again in the suburbs of Beijing changping heard several times of a cuckoo call.Though I didn't see what it is like, but let me know the cuckoo cuckoo. Absolutely not.Also, understand the so called cuckoo cuckoo reasons, because it sounds is "cuckoo, cuckoo".So, why would anyone take cuckoo and cuckoo confused?The reason is simple: they neither eyes have seen cuckoo and cuckoo looks, also not heard this two birds with my own ears the different sounds.If both heard cuckoo calls and heard the cuckoo call person, never put cuckoo as cuckoo.Wuyuan cities, people really should close to nature.

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