Fortune-telling the fate of a pigeon and a goose _ What does it mean to fortune-tell the fate of a pigeon?

The ancient messenger called "Hongyan delivers books". Why are geese delivering letters instead of the well-known pigeons?

Because in ancient times, people have not found that pigeons can pass books, so they have to use geese to pass messages. At that time, wild geese also represented a kind of peace and security.

In ancient times, due to the inconvenient transportation and the lack of our current mobile phones, the wild geese traveling from south to north became the carrier for separated people to express their thoughts, became an image in literary works, and attracted many well-known poems by Li Qingzhao: "The geese return to the west building and the moon is full" and "The geese are sad when they pass, but they meet in the old days." Goose didn't bring the long-awaited letter, which caused lovesickness that women couldn't arrange. However, the earliest image of the goose "messenger" appeared in the Book of Songs.

Su Wu in Han Dynasty was famous for wild geese. In BC 100, Su Wu was ordered to send an envoy to Xiongnu under the loyalty of a corps commander and was detained. Xiongnu nobles repeatedly threatened to induce him to surrender. Later, they moved him to Beihai to herd sheep and threatened that he would not be released unless he had a son, Su Wu, who had lived in Xiongnu for 65,438+09 years. In 87 BC, a few years after Zhao Han ascended the throne, the Huns and the Han Dynasty reached a peace agreement. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hunted in the forest garden and shot a wild goose with silk thread on its foot, saying that Su Wu and others were in Beihai.

Han was very happy and asked as usual. He was surprised to see the people around him. He apologized to the envoys of the Han Dynasty and said, "Su Wu and others are still alive." Later, Su Wu returned to the Han Dynasty. From then on, the goose became the name of the postman or letter. When geese fly around in zigzag or herringbone in the sky and croak, the ancients can't help but look up and silently express their dissatisfaction with missing their loved ones. Or when they see the geese coming back, they think it is a signal of family safety.

Later, the army used homing pigeons for military exchanges. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, the generals' troops also used homing pigeons to send messages and gather troops. Pigeons are rarely used to convey information now, but they are still preserved in large quantities.