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The owl, the people on Wendou Village call it "cat drum bird". Adult owls all live in ancient trees at the end of the village, and never come out during the day, which is extremely profound and weird.

On a late spring night, it rained heavily. The next morning, I saw the newly grown owls falling from the old trees from time to time. As soon as it reached the ground, the little owl panicked into the wet grass and piles of rotting leaves. Not surprisingly, they will all be a meal for a snake or a nest of rats and ants.

The owl's ability to soar into the air has not yet been learned, and a sharp-eyed and agile child can catch them in three or five strokes.

When the owl was small, it was furry and cute, and its eyes were dripping and rolling, and there was no trace of fierce light. Catch a frog or mouse and feed it for a few days, and the little owl will be ready to take off its wings.

When we were children, we used to adopt baby owls, but our parents never allowed us to bring them into the house. Often at dusk or at night, the little owl that was placed outside the house suddenly flew away after its wings hardened and never flew back.

In Wendou Village, as soon as he heard that someone had died, the old man pretended to be mysterious and said, "No wonder the cat drum bird on the old cedar tree is calling late and night these days, and it is always calling, I know that someone is going to (die)!" ”

The people on the village are very afraid and taboo to hear the noise of cats and birds.

As soon as the owl crows, someone in the village will die, and the news of death will be heard in less than three days. Therefore, the owl is considered by the locals to be a very unlucky "mourning bird".

At night, whenever the owl calls, those who hear it will spit hatefully and curse two sentences, "Bah Qiu, the cat drum bird fell into the hole" and "Bah Qiu, the cat drum bird rolls out", as if trying to dissociate himself from the death news that this eagle may bring.

The owl crows late and late, and the cry is lazy, and soon an old man will die in the village. If an owl cries suddenly and violently on a particular night, and its cry is rapid and vicious, a young man will surely die, and it will be an accident. The people of the whole village have been worried and restless for a few days.

There are many legends about owls. One said that the owl was a mourning ghost at the Ghost Gate, and whoever was called had to go to Huangquan to see the king of Hades; Another said that the owl was very cruel, and when it grew up, not only did it not repay the kindness of the mother eagle for nurturing, but also pecked the mother eagle to death in cold blood and ate the corpse of the mother. There is a local idiom called "Gou Wo Yu Ping", which is used to scold those unfilial descendants, which means "cats and birds eat their mothers", which is despised by people.

Whether an owl eats a mother eagle or not, no one has ever seen. However, as soon as the owl calls, there must be a funeral on the village, which is really spiritual.

Ever since I was a child, I have been secretly determined many times to wipe out all the owls in the old trees. However, every time I caught a cute little owl, I could not associate it with the cruel and hateful "cat drum bird" and "mourning bird", and I must carefully raise it until it could fly back to the old tree.

The owl is innocent and innocent. Perhaps, they are simply carrying a stigma of spurning for an innate spirituality.

The emperor of the Ninety-Five and the rich and wealthy all over the world will eventually die, not to mention the small people in the mountains?

Wealth is fate, and poverty is also fate. No one can escape the fate of a loess in life.

In the village, there are still owls chirping from time to time, and every year there are old people who die and children who are born...... Birth, old age, sickness and death, reincarnation and reincarnation, have been playing out in that village over and over again, and they continue to ,......

No one can handle it all. No one can try to change all that.