Now when the story of "grabbing the nest" is told, there is a lot of abuse. This kind of robber behavior of "occupying my big house and my field" must be criticized morally and severely punished legally to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of the victims from damage.

It turns out that the poem "Magpie Nest" describes the wedding scene of a woman marrying her in-laws. The dove in the poem symbolizes the bride, the magpie symbolizes the groom, and the magpie nest is the nest where two people love each other. The festive occasion is the wedding night.

The magpie in the poem is magpie, because its chirping sounds like the good news of "happy home", so people call it magpie. Magpies are omnivores, preying on all kinds of pests that harm crops, but they also eat grains.

Magpies are experts in nesting. From the outside, the magpie nest is rough, but the internal structure is very complicated and the workmanship is very meticulous. The four-month construction period is the guarantee of quality. Because magpies' nests are firm and comfortable, and their goals are high and big, they are often occupied by other birds that don't nest, such as pigeons.

The Value Influence of The Book of Songs

The diplomatic communication through poetry in the Spring and Autumn Period was very extensive, which made The Book of Songs a very important tool at that time. On this point, there are many records in the famous Zuo Zhuan, such as Twenty-seven Years of "xianggong" and Twenty Years of Zhao Gong.

These quotations from The Book of Songs, or exhortations, or comments, or analysis, or expressions, have their own functions, but they have one thing in common, that is, all the quoted poems are "taken out of context"-take one or two of them, regardless of the meaning of the whole article. This phenomenon was called "commonplace" in the Spring and Autumn Period.

In other words, at that time, the function of The Book of Songs was not in itself, but in "expressing ambition through poetry". If you want to express your ambition, you can quote a poem. Poetry serves the ambition, not what the original intention of the poem is, but whether the quoted content can explain the ambition. This is a true application of The Book of Songs in the Spring and Autumn Period, but its literary function has been misinterpreted.