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Why are there so many crows in the Forbidden City? No one is feeding in the Forbidden City now, or is it so much?
But in fact, there have been two completely different views on crows since ancient times. In addition to seeing crows as ominous things, another view that crows are auspicious birds is actually more mainstream. Like what? The crow gives good news for only one week. It is said that there was a big crow on the roof of the king in Zhou Wuwang period, and Zhou Wang and the doctors were very happy, because it meant that a happy event was coming and the week was going up (of course, there were a wide range of crows at this time, except black crows and magpies. And I want to say that in fact, the ancients were right. Scientifically, birds have a family of crows, including crows and magpies.

And what is it for Confucian civilization? Crows feed back? Even Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica says: When Wu was born, his mother fed him for 60 days, and when he grew up, he fed him for 60 days, which is filial piety. These statements have been recognized by Taoism, a local religion in China. Wudang Mountain regards crows as? Ghost crow? And built a crow temple on the mountain. Crows catch food? It is one of the eight scenic spots in Wudang.

In fact, crows are also recognized abroad. For example, there are a lot of crows in the Tower of London in England. An astronomer once complained to the king that crows interfered with his observation of astrology, so the king ordered the crows to be driven away, and did not want a large number of subjects to petition immediately, saying that crows were sacred to the Tower of London. If crows are driven away, Britain will lose this country. Finally, these crows lived in the tower for centuries and still exist today.

So why do Aisingiorro people like crows? There are some stories here, which say that the ancestors of Aisin Gioro suffered a catastrophe and almost the whole family was slaughtered. Only one child escaped into the wild and hid in the bushes. At this time, a crow flew and landed on the head of the only descendant of Aisinggioro, chasing all the way. When he saw the crow here, he thought there could be no living person, and turned back to the house. So the little boy survived and Aisingiorro was resurrected in the future.

Therefore, the descendants of Manchuria regarded the crow as the patron saint of their own nation. They often do this when they go hunting in the mountains. Sprinkle meat and wine as a sacrifice to crows? . After entering Beijing, they installed a lot of so-called? Soren pole? In fact, it is a pole for feeding crows, which contains all kinds of foods that crows like best. As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. In this way, it is not surprising that a large number of crows gather in the Forbidden City.

Of course, after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, this Soren system no longer exists, but crows will still come. Why? This is related to a term in climatology-heat island effect. The more people there are in the city, the higher the temperature will be. On winter nights, crows are sure to look for warm places. But modern cities, although warm, are mostly high-rise buildings, and crows can hardly survive.

So what should we do? Finally, these? A crow in winter? I found such a good place as the Forbidden City, which not only has the greenhouse effect, but also has a large number of ancient trees, and can also build nests for health. Why not?