Old people in rural areas often say that pheasants in spring and rabbits in winter cannot be picked. Why?

Why don't you pick pheasants in spring? Spring is a sunny season, spring blossoms, spring returns to the earth, and everything is thriving. After the lack of food in winter, all kinds of small animals became active.

At the same time, the temperature in this season is extremely unstable. As the old saying goes, spring is chilly, and it is still cold at first sight. Hot and cold weather is the most likely to cause some diseases, especially some viral diseases. For example, birds are the most likely to cause avian influenza, and pheasants are no exception as a kind of birds.

In addition, farmers began to get busy in the fields, and they began to fight pesticides and insects on various crops and fruit trees.

Because of these factors, most of the pheasants found dead at this time were caused by viral diseases or eating poisonous insects and food. How to eat such a dead chicken?

In addition to these reasons, there is another saying that "chicken" and "hungry" are homophonic. As the saying goes, a year's plan lies in spring. If you go to pick up pheasants in spring, it is easy to cause famine. Of course, this is just a superstitious statement, and we can't believe it all, but on another level, it is also people's yearning for a better life.

Let's talk about why we don't pick rabbits in winter. Although there is not as much snow in winter here on the small farm as in the northernmost Heijiliao, there will be snowflakes floating. In the snowy world, Uncle Xu, who is in his 40 s in the village, will look for rabbits in the fields with his homemade long guns and short guns. Sometimes our children will follow him for a long time. Uncle Bi Er is a good marksman. He often shoots rabbits.

Once, some of our children found a dead rabbit and picked it up. Uncle Bi Er saw it and immediately said, This rabbit can't be picked up. "Why can't you pick it up? Are you afraid of freezing to death? " A small partner replied, and the second uncle replied: How can rabbits freeze to death? At the end of autumn, rabbits will put on thick winter clothes and grow a thick layer of fluff on their skin to resist the cold.

"Then how did this rabbit die?" The little friend asked inexplicably.

Uncle Bi Er said unhurriedly that some rabbits that died in winter may have died of disease and hunger, and some may have died after being hit by hunters, but they died a few days later. No matter how you die, you can't pick it up and eat it. It's cold in winter, and you don't know how long it has been dead. Many bacteria will lurk in the body, which will affect your health.

Childhood is a wonderful time. Decades have passed, and now there are few rabbits in rural areas. Guns have long been controlled, and homemade guns are not allowed. The scene of shooting rabbits in winter will never be seen again. Occasionally, what we can see is that some farmers are wandering in the fields in winter with a few fine dogs.

Those childhood scenes occasionally come to mind. The old saying that "no pheasants in spring, no rabbits in winter" spread in rural areas has also taken root in my heart. As I get older, I have a deeper understanding of the meaning of those old sayings.