"I know more about the names of birds, beasts, plants and trees. ”
The Analects
Naturalism
It is an ancient science in which human beings deal with nature.
Refers to animals, plants, minerals, ecosystems, etc.
Do at the macro levelObserve, describe, and classify
Return to the structure and form of the object itself
Trying to understandNature gives birth to all thingsThe mystery.
Linnaeus's Nature Notes.
Fabre at work.
You can be as rigorous as Linnaeus.
Transform the familiar into the unfamiliar.
Adopt strictClassification and naming
Achieve a systematic understanding from a scientific perspective.
It can also be as romantic as Fabre.
withA poetic eyeWrite the story of nature.
Explore the earthly world where all things breathe.
Give life the appearance of the sun shining on all things.
Teach seven to look up from downstairs.
The museum starts from the whole body
Create an emotional connection with living beings.
Full of reverence for life.
Place yourself inThe campus of Beijing Normal University
Landmarks from one stage on the map of life.
Transformed intoA space with natural emotions
All things are spiritual and beautiful
Awaken us to self-discovery.
We develop different understandings of all things.
The essence is also a pairSelf-awareness and inquiry
Birds passed by this morning.
To capture the perfect moment of bird watching, what is really needed is the desire to observe first and foremost.
Not a specific bird-watching technique, but a Xi of observing things.
Simon Barnes, "A Bird Flew Outside the Window."
Photo by red-tailed shrike Guo Yuting
Red-tailed shrike (Lanius Cristatus).It is a visitor who passes by briefly in the spring and autumn season. They are powerful predators, and although they are not large, they are highly skilled hunters. Standing still on open power railings and tree branches, you can quickly attack and kill your prey with one blow.
Han Yuqing. 
Photo by Huang Ziqi
Yellow-rumped willow warbler (phylloscopus proregulus).It can be seen almost everywhere during the migration season - fromJingshi RoadThe acacia on both sides toFamily areacan be seen shuttling in the shadow of the leaves, and from time to time there are one or two pleasant songs. At the same time, the yellow-rumped willow warbler is also one of the earliest willow warblers to come to Beijing during the migration season every spring, and it is a veritable "stormtrooper" during the migration season. It can even be said that if one day you suddenly hear the call of "crape myrtle, crape myrtle" from the campus of Normal University, then you can probably judge that the annual migration season is finally about to beginThe real spring, which belongs to birds and birdwatchers, is finally about to begin.
Huang Ziqi. Photo by Guo Yuting, a female bird of the Northern Redstart
Northern Redstart Male Bird Photo by Moon Moon Bird **Understand birds
It can be seen in all provinces of our countryNorthern Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus).figure. These round birds often inhabit the woods or in the bushes and low trees near residential areasThe spring and autumn migration season often occurs on the campus of Normal University, and is mostly seen in:In the gardens around Jiaojiu and Jiaojiu, as well as in the shrubs of the biological garden and family areaThey can occasionally be found on the side branches of small trees. The female and male birds of the Northern Redstart are quite different in appearance, but they both have conspicuous inverted triangular white wing spots, so don't be mistaken!
Han Yuqing. Plants and trees have love.
You must love something, just like the love of time for grass and trees.
Wang Zengqi "Grass and Trees in the World".
Gold and silver honeysuckle flower photo by Wang Junlan
Gold and silver honeysuckle fruit photo by Han Yuqing
Gold and silver honeysuckle (lonicera maackii)., deciduous shrub or small tree of the genus Lonicera in the family Losuckleaceae. Distributed throughout the campusA small garden in the northeast corner of the courtyard。The word "gold and silver" in its name comes from its flowers, which are white at first bloom and turn yellow over time. Of course, this season you can only see its beautiful fruit: the small red balls, which are the brightest splashes of color in late autumn and harsh winter. As you can see, there are often two fruits stuck together on the branches, like cute bells. This is also one of the identifying characteristics of the genus Losuckle.
Luo Xinyao. Photo by Luo Xinyao
Two-ball plane (Platanus acerifolia).It is a plant of the plane family Plane tree, and is a hybrid of the three-ball plane and the one-ball plane tree. It is widely planted as a street tree on campusIn the summer, bring shade to everyone with a vast canopy. The small brown balls hanging from the tree are its inflorescences, and if you trample it on the ground, you will find that it is composed of many slender seeds with small umbrella-like hairs. This structure will facilitate its wind propagation.
Chu Zhenzhen. Photo by Red Maple Han Yuqing
Red mapleYesAcer palmatumA species that belongs to the group of small deciduous trees. The red maple on the campus is planted inTeach nine small gardens. Its branches are slender and smooth, with a purplish-red tinge. When germinating in early spring, the young leaves are bright red with soft white hairs. After the leaves are stretched, the soft hairs fall off, and the color of the leaves changes from bright to lilac or even dark green. Red maple allows us to feel the beautiful scenery of Du Mu's poem "Stop and sit in love with the maple forest at night, and the frost leaves are red in February flowers" in Du Mu's poem. But in fact, the "maple" in Du Mu's poem refers to the red leaf plant "maple fragrance" in the south, not the red maple in the school.
Yang Yiyan. When the eyes begin to notice.
Nothing is turned a blind eye anymore.
The happiness of pushing things from oneself
It is the possibility that we build a better future.
Walden (excerpt).
Henry David Thoreau.
I went to the woods because I wanted to live cautiouslyJust face the basic facts of life and see if I can learn what life has to teach me, lest when I die, I find that I have not lived at all. I don't want to live a non-life lifeLife is so lovely;But I don't want to practice and live a life of seclusion, unless I have to. I want to live deeply to absorb the essence of life, to live steadily, to live Spartan, so that all things that are not living can be cut out of an area of mowing, and carefully mowed or pruned, and life will be compressed into a corner of the sun, and it will be reduced to the lowest conditions, and if it proves to be humble, then I will recognize all the true humility, and declare its humility to the world;Or, if it's sublime, experience it with personal experience, and make a factual report on my next trip.
The first summer, I didn't study;I grow beans. No, I'm better than doing this. Sometimes, I can't sacrifice the good time in front of me to any work, whether it's brain or hand work. I love to leave more room in my life.
Sometimes, on a summer morning, after bathing as usual, I sat in front of the door in the sun, from sunrise until noon, among the pine, hickory, and coxagulus trees, in undisturbed solitude and quiet, and meditated on it, when the birds sang all around, or flew silently past my house, until the sun shone on my west window, or the distant highway was heard with the rustle of some traveler's vehicle, reminding me of the passage of time.
I grow in such a season, like corn in the night, which is much better than any hand labor. Instead of subtracting time from my life, it added a lot to my usual time, and overproduced a lot.
I understand what Oriental means by contemplation and putting aside work. By and large, wasting the years, I don't care. The day was moving forward, as if it were just to illuminate some kind of work for me;But it was still dawn, and you see, it was night, and I hadn't accomplished anything memorable. I didn't sing like a songbirdI just smiled quietly and laughed at myself for being blissful. Like the sparrow, crouched in the hickory tree in front of my door, chirping, I snickered, or suppressed my chirping, lest it might hear it from my nest.
My day is not a day of the week, nor is it chopped into small pieces of hours, nor is it disturbed by the ticking of bells;Because I like people like Puri in India, it is said for them"Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are the same word, and when they say the word differently, they make gestures while saying the word, the one behind the finger counts yesterday, the one in front of the finger counts tomorrow, and the top of the finger head counts today. ”
In the eyes of my fellow citizens, this is pure laziness;However, if I were to be judged by the standards of birds and flowers, I would be without fault. It is true that one must find a cause in oneself. Nature's days are peaceful, and it does not reproach him for being lazy.
Goodnight words. May the local museum become a way of life for you.
Beyond the trivial.
Our hearts are on the wilderness
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Copywriting and typesetting: Ye Chenhao.
The natural notes on birds and plants in this article are from the Biology Department of Beijing Normal University.
Editor in charge: Cao Junhan.
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