The moral and significance of crows

Crow is an ominous bird and a lucky bird that brings happiness to people. But because of its indecent appearance, it is also regarded as unknown in some areas. Before the Tang Dynasty, crow was an ominous and prophetic bird in China's folk civilization. There was a historical legend that "a crow gives good news, and Zhou Xing begins". In many Confucian classics, crows are regarded as a typical example of filial piety.

In ancient times, crows had ominous meanings. Crows are considered to be birds related to the sun. Fuxi Nuwa portrait brick unearthed in China shows Fuxi holding a ruler in his left hand and a round wheel in his right hand, among which there are crows.

Huang Da Dong Jing, a mountain and sea sutra, said, "There are supporting trees in the Tang Valley. Every day, at sunrise, they are all in Wu." In the literature of the Han dynasty, the crow became three feet. Liu Xiang said in the Yi Tong of the Five Classics: "Three feet in Japan and China." In the tomb of Marquise Xin Zhui in the early Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, there is an abstraction of a crow standing in the sun, which shows that people regard crows as divine birds in advance, and the mythical three legs are regarded as auspicious signs.

In Wudang Mountain, the holy land of Taoism, crows are also considered as divine birds. According to official legend, Emperor Zhenwu went to Wudang Mountain to practice, and the crow patiently guided him to the top of the mountain. After getting the word, he thanked the crows, built the crow ridge and built the crow temple, so that all good men and women could come to worship incense.

Crow represents filial piety.

The ancients believed that crows had the physiological characteristics of feeding back, and young birds would take them back and feed them mouth to mouth to repay their mothers' kindness. Shuowen said, "Wu, filial piety is also a bird." Therefore, children serve their parents, which is called "Wu feeding". "Compendium of Materia Medica: Birds are Second to Me" says: "This bird is born with filial piety, and its mother eats for 60 days, while it grows for 60 days." In modern China, "filial piety comes first". Everyone wants to be provided for in the old age. Advocating filial piety is considered to be the most fundamental character. Crow's feedback behavior is regarded as the representative of "filial piety", so it is vigorously promoted as a teaching material to support parents.

The official attitude towards crows is more derogatory than positive. The reasons are as follows: first, black means darkness; Second, the crow's cry is very sad; Third, crows eat carrion, even human corpses; Fourth, crows often appear in poor graves.

A large group of crows often gather in wasteland and carrion, and keep crowing loudly. This kind of sight and cry reminds people of death, which makes people feel a sense of fear and trembling, so crows are often regarded as ominous things.

In divination activities, crows are generally good omen. When going out, if crows fly by, maybe crows will gather in front of and behind the owner's house, which will be considered as a sign of disaster. The master only needs to ask God for advice and get rid of it, so he can feel at ease.

So in China, most proverbs related to crows have bad meanings. For example, "the world is as black as a crow", "the crow's mouth", "the mob" and "the crow takes the lead, there will be disaster" and so on.

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