What is a bloody cuckoo? What does the cuckoo mean by crying blood

Legend has it that when the cuckoo bird cries, it will bleed from its mouth, which is a sad description of the cuckoo's cry.

Cuckoo cry blood, Chinese idiom, pinyin is dù juān tí xuè, which means that the legend of the cuckoo day and night sorrowful Qi talks about infiltration, crying until the blood is out. It is often used to describe the extreme grief. From Don Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing".

Just like the Tang Dynasty poet Cheng Yanxiong wrote, "The cuckoo high ridge serves Zheng Hua and the bird, complaining about the two He credit, suspected to be blood in the mouth, dripping into flowers on the branches." "In ancient China, there was a myth and legend of "Emperor Wang's Cry".

Emperor Wang, the legendary monarch of Shu at the end of the Zhou Dynasty, was named Du Yu. Later, the Zen position retired, unfortunately the country died, after the death of the soul turned into a bird, the twilight spring cried bitterly, as for the mouth bleeding, its voice was sad and sad, moving the heart, named the cuckoo. In classical Chinese poetry, the cuckoo is often associated with sorrow.

Li Bai Shiyun: "Yang Hua fell to the end of the rules, and heard that the dragon marked the five streams." Wen Tianxiang's "Jinling Yi Two Songs":

From now on, he will leave Jiangnan Road and return with blood. The cuckoo's cry seems to say, "It's better to go back, it's better to go back", and its cry is easy to touch people's homesickness.

Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty poems: "The night into the green smoke crying, the day looking for the fragrant trees to fly, the spring mountain is infinitely good, and it is better to go home." It can be seen that the cuckoo bird or flower is mythical, entrusting the poet's sadness and endless grievances, and generations of Chinese literati and writers have regarded the cuckoo as a sad bird and a symbol of sorrow.

Legend has it that the cuckoo screams day and night and does not stop until it vomits blood, so this idiom is often used to describe the extreme grief.

The cuckoo is the cuckoo, also known as Zigui, Duyu, and Zijuan. In spring and summer, cuckoo birds call more often, crisp and short, giving people a sense of urging. The corners of the bird's beak and tongue are red, and it looks like it is bleeding from its mouth, and it is at this time when the azaleas are in full bloom, so the ancients used their imagination to say that it was the blood that the cuckoo bird vomited.

There is such a myth about cuckoo in China very early on, a king in Sichuan, called Emperor Wang. He loved the people and led the people to open up the wasteland and farm, so that people could live a good life. Later, unfortunately the country died, and Emperor Wang's body died, and after his death, Emperor Wang's soul became a bird, crying every day, and his voice was complaining, so that his mouth bled incessantly.

The cuckoo bird, commonly known as the cuckoo, is also known as Zigui, Duyu, and Zijuan. In spring and summer, the cuckoo cries all night long, and the cry is crisp and short, arousing people's various feelings. If you look closely, the cuckoo's oral epithelium and tongue are red, the ancients mistakenly thought that it was crying so much that its mouth was full of blood, and it happened that when the cuckoo was singing, it was when the rhododendron was in full bloom, and people saw the rhododendron so bright red, so they said that this color was the blood of the azalea.

The meaning of this sentence is: But others only think that the cuckoo is calling pedestrians in the mountains, and who knows that the cuckoo is formed by the soul of Emperor Wang, from Huang Jingren's "Wenzi Gui" in the Qing Dynasty, the original text is as follows:

The voices of blood and tears complained of grievances, and the rain and rain in Baling were cried.

Only solve the thousands of mountains to call travelers, who knows that the body is the soul that has not returned.

Translation: The cuckoo cries day and night to tell his grievances, so that the whole Baling is shrouded in the smoke and rain of late dawn and twilight. But others only thought that the cuckoo was calling pedestrians in the mountains, and who knew that the cuckoo was formed by the soul of Emperor Wang.