"Two birds enter the house, and there is no disaster",* the two birds referred to and the reasonableness.
As the saying goes:"Eat a trench to grow a wisdom, plant melons to get melons, plant beans to get beans"。When disasters strike, people always find ways to prevent and mitigate them. However, in the face of the unknown, we cannot predict or change the future, but preventing it can reduce the loss of individuals or families to a certain extent.
The ancients knew how to discern disasters because everything is interconnected, and disasters are often preceded by signs. For example, there is a folk proverb that says:"There are two birds in the house, and woe is two birds"。What are the two birds mentioned in this proverb?Does it really make sense today?
The first bird is the owl, which is currently a national second-class protected animal. Since this bird likes to be seen at night, it is relatively rare in species and number compared to other birds, so it is rarely seen in daily life. Regarding the owl's appearance, I believe you have a certain understanding of its long feathers and head from some ** or documentaries. It impresses with its long feathers and head!It can also turn its head at will, looks cute and imposing, and gives people a down-to-earth feeling.
While the owl does not pose a threat to humans and is not a harmful animal per se, in the eyes of the indigenous people it is a sinister bird that represents funeral and mourning, a notion that is not based on an empty threat, but on the characteristics of the owl, which must be recognized.
First of all, the owl's call is very unique, as a nocturnal animal, it not only has a spiritual resonance, but also has an eerie and terrifying feeling, coupled with the darkness of the night environment, if you are in the depths of the dense forest, it is difficult to accidentally hear the call of this animal, which makes people shudder!
Secondly, owls like to prey on some small animals, they also like to eat carcasses while predating, that is, decomposing animal carcasses, when the owl flies into an ordinary family, in the name of family disintegration, people may be on the verge of death, current scientific research shows that human corpses in the undead body will emit a unique putrid smell, but this smell is human. It can't be smelled, only scavengers such as owls can smell it, which is also the reason why people don't like the presence of owls in their homes, because owls represent impending death, so owls are called mourning birds.
It has to be said that the crow is not likable, it is not as glamorous as other birds, nor is it as powerful and domineering as the eagle, its call is hoarse and tasteless, so this closed image of the crow is difficult to pleasing to the eye.
In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, the crow was not so popular, and not only that, but it was also considered a representative of advantageous birds at the time, mainly because there was a legend of the three-legged golden crow in ancient China, and the bird, as well as this three-legged golden crow, which is obviously the abode of the sun, is the legendary three-legged chariot crow, and there is also a legend that the sun is a three-legged golden crow, so although it is not beautiful in appearance, it meets these characteristics of the three-legged golden crow. According to these characteristics of the three-feathered golden crow, correspondingly, although its appearance is not beautiful, its status is higher than that of the phoenix, so it is not surprising that people like crows.
However, as time goes by, people gradually dislike the crow, an ordinary bird, because its call is very annoying, and it urinate everywhere when it goes to **, which brings a lot of trouble to people, and crows, as a flock of birds, always like to move in shady places, and like owls, they are also typical scavengers, because they do not have strong hunting skills, so they only eat the residues of large carnivores. Large carnivores eat scraps.
Similarly, if a crow's peck falls on a tree or rooftop, it means that the family will die. The crow's call always gives an eerie feel, so if there is always a flock of crows in the house, this is often considered an early warning of disaster. After all, crows are quite mysterious birds, both in mythology and in real life. They do not enter human dwellings for no reason. Many things seem to be connected in some way.
In fact, these claims that have been handed down to this day are completely nonsense. The ancients were influenced by feudal superstition, and their understanding of many things was not accurate or scientific, so they were very sensitive to unexpected events, and always hoped that something untrue would happen, combining personal subjective assumptions with some special birds. In fact, there is no correlation between one's destiny and future happiness. Whether it's an owl or a crow, these animals have their own instincts and characteristics and are therefore able to spot some problems that we humans can't.
In addition, in some other countries, owls and crows are not symbols of misfortune or death, such as in Greece, owls are symbols of grace and wisdom, because in Greek mythology, the favorite bird of the goddess Athena is the owl.
The crow, on the other hand, is currently Sweden's national bird, and its status is far from comparable to that of other birds. Therefore, in general, in the eyes of the natives, these two birds are not so popular with people from other countries, and may represent a new meaning and symbol, which can only be described by benevolence and wisdom, and each country has its own cultural concept, which is why there is such a big difference in concept.
For us, no matter how different each country's understanding of birds is, we must not follow the trend, we must have the right attitude and concept, birds, as a part of nature, must be protected, not to mention that owls and other birds often prey on pests or rodents, which are beneficial to humans in many ways, then of course we cannot trust some of them. In this case, we certainly cannot believe some false claims that drive or capture these beneficial birds.