What does an owl stand for in China?

In China, owls are regarded as "ominous birds", and in ancient books, they are also called strange owls, ghost cars, ghosts or wanderers, as a symbol of bad luck and death.

There are some folk sayings in our country, for example, "When a night owl enters the house, he is afraid of the night owl's barking, but he is afraid of the night owl's laughing". Owls are often regarded as "ominous birds", called ghost birds, mourning birds and so on. In ancient books, they are also called strange owls, ghost cars, ghosts or wandering as symbols of bad luck and death.

The main reason for these opinions is that owls can sniff out terminally ill people because of their keen sense of smell, and they will laugh. In many places, there is no superstition that owls will die within a few days after hearing their cries, so owls are called mourning birds. In addition, the owl's cry in the dark is as gloomy and desolate as ghosts, which makes people feel even more horrible. It was called "ugly bird" in ancient times.

Birds in Strigiformes are called owls, and the total number exceeds 130 species. It is distributed on all continents except Antarctica. Most species are nocturnal carnivores. Their food is mainly rodents, but there are also insects, birds, lizards, fish and other animals.

The bird of this order has a wide head, a short and thick mouth, a hook-shaped front end, a face-disk-shaped arrangement of feathers at the front of the head, and some kinds of feathers are ear-shaped. The distribution of feathers in eyes, panels and ears makes the head of this bird very similar to that of a cat, so it is commonly known as an owl. Alias cat eagle.

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Cultural symbol

1, ancient Greece

Love birds, the goddess of wisdom in Greek mythology, is a small owl (a kind of owl, which is considered to predict events), so the ancient Greeks regarded the owl as a symbol of Athena and wisdom.

2. Japan

In Japan, the owl is called a lucky bird because its Japanese pronunciation "ふくろぅ" has auspicious meaning, and it has also become the mascot of the Nagano Winter Olympics, representing auspiciousness and happiness.

People are afraid of owls and think they can be used to exorcise evil spirits. Accordingly, Thomas, who killed the owl, used the simulated image of the owl to suppress evil.

3. Britain, Britain

In Britain, people think that eating burnt owl eggs and grinding them into powder can correct their eyesight. Yorkshire people think that soup made of owls can cure whooping cough.

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