The crisp and beautiful prose of the birds singing in the green hills

I have always liked birds. I envy their wings that can fly freely. I like them singing and talking on the branches. Whenever they look at us with their heads tilted, I feel that they are thoughtful. Their cries always attract me to listen and think. I always want to match their calls with our human language. I think not only I have this hobby, but also our ancestors have this hobby. There are different places, different accents and different voices. Do not believe me, listen to the story of cuckoo.

In a text learned in primary school, the cuckoo's cry was accompanied by the voice of "Grandpa and Grandma, cut wheat and grain". This dubbing comes from a legend, saying that there was a kannika nimtragol who was lazy, did nothing and was in a hurry. The family told her that farming should be based on solar terms, otherwise it would be confiscated by God and there would be nothing to eat! But she didn't believe me. It is said that the full moon that year, everyone was desperately harvesting wheat and transplanting rice. But she was in no hurry. She gets up late every morning and doesn't worry about work. Her parents-in-law urged her to hurry up, but she just wouldn't buy it. Seeing that the full moon festival is coming, their wheat is still in the field. As a result, it began to rain heavily and the water level rose. For many days in a row, the wheat in the field was completely destroyed, and because of the continuous rain, it was impossible to transplant rice seedlings and missed the solar term. That year, there was no harvest in her family, and the whole family starved to death. This daughter-in-law became a cloth (bag) after her death? Gu bird advised people to harvest wheat and transplant rice before and after Xiaoman, so as not to miss the solar terms and end up starving like her. This is a story circulating in the book. However, my hometown dubs it in different ways. According to its sound level and cadence, in our hometown dialect, it is like this: "burn corn (Nianqie), burn corn." It means that roasted corn is delicious. Eat the burnt corn quickly. Another meaning is that this kind of bird can grow corn as soon as it calls. It also means solar term reminder. Growing up, I firmly believe that what this bird said was to ask us to eat steamed corn. I also grew up with them shouting "burn corn". However, I recently went to my hometown neighboring county and heard people there explain that the bird said, "The light spot (only grows) covers the valley (reading pavilion), and the light spot covers the valley." It is said that a little daughter-in-law likes to eat corn and told her in-laws that she only grows corn and not soybeans. But my in-laws don't agree. We must plant some soybeans. As a result, kannika nimtragol was so anxious that she kept clamoring for "light corn". You see, the voice of the same bird has so many different dubbing. These dubbing with the local dialect of birds is really vivid.

In our hometown, there are several distinctive bird songs in the spring and summer exchange meeting. In addition to the cuckoo mentioned above, there are also Duanyang birds, who will shout "Duanyang in May, Duanyang in May" before Duanyang Festival to remind people that Duanyang Festival is coming. After Duanyang, it will gradually stop screaming. Cuckoo and Duanyang birds are loud and far away, and will spread to far away places. When you wake up in bed in the morning or when you are about to fall asleep at night, you can hear their voices calling, kind and stable. There are a series of strange birds in the forest. Their cries sound like "strange (bad things) of good sister-in-law and good sister-in-law of my sister-in-law" in our hometown dialect. This kind of cry can only be heard in the mountains. It is sharp and short, but it doesn't spread far. This cry is accompanied by two stories, one is the story of an aunt's mother-in-law fighting wits at home, which is a bit humorous. The other is a sad story about a cruel sister-in-law who hurt her brother-in-law. This kind of birdsong will last until the early winter when wheat is sown. All the stories of dubbing birds are told. Birds with tips or warnings learned their lessons before they died and became birds after they died, reminding future generations not to make mistakes with the experience gained in their previous lives. It can be said that the lesson is profound and far-reaching.

Now it's just past Xiaoman, and it's almost Duanyang. At this time, everything is full of vitality and carefree: the ears of wheat are full, the rice is transplanted, the silkworms are ripe and new cocoons are formed, and the rape, oil and wild vegetables show is another time for all kinds of birds to show their talents. If you go for a walk in the forest in the morning when the morning light is slightly exposed, or after the rain, or at dusk when the sun sets in the western hills, you will certainly hear the birds in Dongshan singing "burning corn" and the birds in Xishan calling "Duanyang in May". You can't help but learn the sounds of birds and shout "burning corn" and "Duanyang in May" with them. Just as you were enjoying yourself, suddenly a series of words "Sister-in-law is good, Sister-in-law is crooked and Sister-in-law is bad" came from the Woods behind you. The word "bad" dragged on for a long time, and finally it seemed to come to an abrupt end. At first you were startled, but at last you couldn't help laughing. Have you thought of this strange bird? Do you need to scream so hard? So I can't help learning from my sister-in-law. You haven't finished learning. On the left is "Gigi" and on the right is "Za". If you feel too busy, stop and listen, and you will find that there are many sounds that you don't usually notice, making Shan Ye clear and lively. There is also a bird called "please water bird", which always coos in the grass near the sewer with a sweet and low voice a few days before it rains. The last coo was the second sound, which dragged on for a long time. The old people said that it was water birds begging for water, and it was going to rain.

However, although we are familiar with the songs of these birds, we seldom see what the birds that make these songs look like. It' s really "only hearing its voice, not seeing its body". The reason is naturally that the flying ability of birds is beyond human reach. Their little bodies fly freely in the mountains. You just heard it barking behind you, but before it was over, its sound had dragged across the sky and floated to the opposite mountain. Except that your ears can enjoy their natural sounds, it is difficult for your eyes to find their traces. Even if you occasionally see them on nearby branches, you can only wait and see which direction they fly. In your ears, they left you a clear cry. So, you can't help shouting "burn corn, end the sun in May" with them.

At this time, you completely regard yourself as a happy bird and forget the troubles in the world. This is called "the singing of birds in the green hills is crisp and the sound is intoxicating." Wandering in the mountains, I don't want to return. "