"When the crow brings good news, it will have a good week." Where does it come from?

Said by: Han Dong Zhongshu quoted Biography of Shangshu in the Spring and Autumn Stories and Similar Movements: "When Zhou Jiangxing came, there was a kind of red and black valley, which gathered on the Wangs, and Wu Wangle and all the doctors were happy."

During the prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty, a red crow brought grain seeds and put them in the palace. The king of Wu was very happy, and so were the officials.

Before the Tang Dynasty, crows were auspicious and prophetic birds in China folk culture. In ancient divination, crows were first used for divination. There is a historical legend that "the crow gives good news and Zhou Xing begins". Ancient history books Huai Nan Zi, Zuo Zhuan and Historical Records are also recorded in famous articles.

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In ancient times, crows had auspicious 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.

On the coffin cover of the tomb of Marquise Xin Zhui in the early Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, there is an image of a crow standing in the sun, which shows that people regarded crows as divine birds at that time, and the mythical tripods were regarded as auspicious signs.

It has something to do with ancient people's worship of the sun. People combine the worship of the sun with the worship of black. Meanwhile, crows like to eat carrion. In ancient times, when it was relatively difficult to get food, people thought that there would be food where there were crows. In this way, crow naturally means a bird that can bring good luck to people.