My Live Life at the Zoo

Chapter 358 A call from Zhang Yixing, the little sheep!

In sight, on the roof, stood a large white bird.

The body is about one meter long, with a crown on the top of the head. The mouth is thick and short, but very strong. The tip of the upper mouth is slightly curved downwards, but there is no hook, and the nostrils are not covered by white feathers. The wings are slightly short and round, but the tail is very long. At first glance, it really looks like the tail of a phoenix.

"Is this Phoenix?"

"Isn't it just a big white cock?"

"Principal, don't make trouble, you even fooled us with a rooster!"

"There is no phoenix that is white, the director is really good at fooling around!"

"Cheating! This is cheating on our feelings!"

"Honey, I'm heartbroken, cancel it!"

Facing the tourists' dissatisfaction, Li Xiao said helplessly: "In everyone's impression, it is more likely to be a fire phoenix or a red phoenix, but isn't there a white phoenix?
The phoenix is ​​the king of birds in our ancient Chinese legends. It has a very high status in Chinese culture and is one of the four spirits in the Book of Rites.

In Phoenix, "Feng" is male and "Huang" is female. It is recorded in "Shan Hai Jing", "Da Huang Xi Jing", "Zheng Lei Materia Medica" and so on.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the dragon gradually became the symbol of the emperor, while the empress was called the phoenix, and the image of the phoenix was gradually "female" as a whole.

In the site of the Neolithic Age 7000 years ago, an "ivory dish with double birds and rising sun pattern" was unearthed. The pattern depicted on it is exactly the phoenix, which is also the earliest phoenix recognized. But after so many years, the world No one has seen a real phoenix at all.

Although there is no Phoenix, there are similar ones.

At present, there are five kinds of birds in the world that are considered to be most similar to phoenixes.

One is the well-known peacock.

The second is the quetzal, because the tail of this bird is very long, just like a phoenix.

The third bird of paradise, the fourth golden pheasant, and the fifth long-tailed pheasant.

These five kinds of birds basically have tails that look like phoenix tails, and most of them are red, which is very similar to the fire phoenix or red phoenix in people's imagination.

In fact, there is another bird in the world that looks exactly like a white phoenix, that is, the one on the roof in front of you. It is called a white pheasant! "

"White pheasant?"

"What kind of bird is this?"

"I've never heard of it!"

"Isn't this a name made up by the director?"

"No matter how you look at it, it looks like a white rooster. It must be made up by the director."

Li Xiao became more and more helpless, and said, "I'm not just making this up, the white pheasant is a second-class protected animal in the country, and it's also the mascot of our Hani ethnic group in China.

White pheasants mostly move in pairs or groups of three or five. In winter, in order to ensure the survival rate of the population and to find food more conveniently, the number in a group will be as many as sixteen or seven. One strong Male birds and several adult female birds, less strong or young male birds and juvenile birds, and there is a strict hierarchical relationship within the group.

Before the spring breeding season, there will always be fierce battles.

At night, the white pheasant usually perches on a tree branch in the forest. First, it stretches its neck, looks around, and then flaps its wings and flies to the tree branch to stop.

Sometimes a group inhabits on the same branch, closes to each other, lines up in a straight line, and flies to the ground one by one for activities in the next morning.

The white pheasant is particularly alert, and timid and afraid of people. When frightened, most of them run directly to the mountains or bushes.

Generally, they seldom take off, and only fly up trees in an emergency.

What the white pheasant eats is even more complicated. They will eat leaves, seeds, and shoots of general plants, as well as locusts, earthworms, and ants.

The white pheasant is mainly distributed in our country, and there are also several small countries near our country, but basically they all branched out.

At present, the habitat of the white pheasant is under great threat from human economic activities. The main manifestations are that people will go to the mountains to cut firewood, collect Chinese herbal medicines, build roads, and carry out forest eco-tourism. Because of this, the number of white pheasants has become more and more In 12, it was listed as a second-class protected animal. "

While Li Xiao was explaining, Tao Yaoyao had already stood aside, took out her mobile phone, turned on the recording, and recorded everything Li Xiao said.

The attitude is extremely serious.

Judging by that posture, it is planning to leave the white pheasant in the zoo for long-term careful feeding and care.

Li Xiao took a deep breath and continued: "The white pheasant has gorgeous plumage and white body color. Because of its hoarse cry, it is called "Yu Rui". It has been a valuable ornamental bird in Chinese culture since ancient times.

"The Book of Birds" records that "it looks like a pheasant but is white in color, and it walks and stops leisurely". Therefore, among the five rare birds raised by Li Fang in the Song Dynasty, the white pheasant was called "leisure guest".

Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, even wrote a poem "Gift to Huangshan Hu Gong for the White Pheasant", in which he wrote that this bird is honest and hard to keep.I have loved it all my life, but I can't do it.But Hu Gong gave me a gift, only asking for a poem, and I was delighted to hear it.It is suitable for long-term intentions. Because the pen is called three times, the text is not added as a gift.

The Qing Dynasty even used the white pheasant as the pattern of the five-rank official uniform.

In addition, I will reveal a little secret to everyone. Ai Yakang, who is known as the king of birds, once took a group of photos of white pheasants, which has more than 200 million likes on the Douyin short video platform! "

"Fuck! The white pheasant is so awesome!"

"Hurry up and take a screenshot of the video, and I will post it to Douyin's short video."

"Count me in! More than 200 million likes, here I come!"

"After being told by the director, I suddenly feel that the white pheasant is so beautiful!"

"The one who said it was a white-haired rooster just now, come out and get beaten!"

"Whoever sees it has a share, hurry up and make a wish!"

"I hope Reba will fall in love with me this year and marry me in a flash!"

"Upstairs, you are just thinking about farts, not wishes!"

"I didn't expect that the pattern of the fifth-rank official uniform of the Qing Dynasty turned out to be a white pheasant, and the head of the garden knew so much."

Seeing the continuous stream of barrage, Li Xiao laughed and said: "When going to court, officials of the fifth rank will wear it like this. The sapphire is topped with a crystal stone, and the crown of auspicious clothes is topped with a crystal stone.

The pattern of ordinary clothes worn by officials at work is also different from that of court clothes, and civil servants all use birds to distinguish their ranks.

In the Ming Dynasty, cranes ranked first, golden pheasants ranked third, peacocks ranked fourth, wild geese ranked fifth, white pheasants ranked sixth, egrets ranked seventh, grebes ranked seventh, orioles ranked eighth, and quails ranked ninth.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was slightly changed to first-rank cranes, second-rank golden pheasants, third-rank peacocks, fourth-rank wild geese, fifth-rank white pheasants, sixth-rank egrets, seventh-rank squids, eighth-rank quails, and ninth-rank sparrows.

Most of the current court dramas in ancient costumes do not consider these details. The clothes worn by each official are basically exactly the same, without any difference.

Maybe it's also because some directors and screenwriters don't know anything about it. "

"What the principal said is too reasonable!"

"What are the current TV dramas? There are at most three or four high-quality TV dramas a year. Those little fresh meats are really disgusting."

"Abducted by robbers, the rope tied to it can be seen to be loose at a glance, and you can break free with a little effort."

"I've become a beggar, and I'm wearing exquisite makeup, for fear that others will not know that she is a rich lady."

"There are also people who are obviously in their 40s and [-]s, but they still insist on acting as teenage girls. Isn't this a proper hot eye?"

The current entertainment industry is really hard to describe.

A little fresh meat without any acting skills, who can only sing and dance, can act in TV dramas. The filmed ones are nondescript, not to mention the pursuit of details, and they don’t even have the most basic acting skills. Stand-ins, green screens, reading numbers, etc. are even more layered Not fierce.

Because of this, many netizens have successfully quit TV dramas, preferring to watch anime and variety shows.

At least the special effects of anime can still be seen.

Therefore, as soon as Li Xiao brought up this topic, the barrage in the live broadcast room instantly increased several times. Even tourists who usually like diving and hanging up appeared one after another, and began to complain.

Li Xiao looked at the white pheasant on the roof.

I don't know if this white pheasant is afraid of people by nature, so it has been standing on the roof without even looking at Li Xiao and Tao Yaoyao below.

Tao Yaoyao at the side asked: "Director, do we want to keep this white pheasant?"

"I also want to keep it, it depends on whether it is willing to stay here."

After all, there is a phoenix in the family, which is also a good symbol and moral. Li Xiao thought about it and said: "Looking at the physical condition of this white pheasant, it is not injured and is still very healthy. We don't need to provide it help.

However, we can sprinkle the plant seeds it likes to eat and small bugs such as grasshoppers. Maybe it will stay when it sees these delicacies.

Even if they don't stay, they will come to look for food from time to time. "

"Good idea! Let's get ready!"

Tao Yaoyao pulled Li Xiao's wrist and said anxiously.

"Come on, I haven't washed my face and brushed my teeth yet."

"It's not too late to wash your face and brush your teeth after preparing the food for the white pheasant, otherwise the white pheasant will run away."

It can be seen that Tao Yaoyao likes this 'White Phoenix' very much.

In this way, Li Xiao and Tao Yaoyao began to prepare food for the white pheasant.

It is also well prepared.

There are meat and vegetables.

After finishing the preparations, Li Xiao washed his face and brushed his teeth, and went up the mountain to the zoo.

By the way, I also brought back Ye Fu, Guang Fu, Snow Leopard Dawa, Honey Badger Pingtou, Tibetan Fox Xiao Liang and the group of ringing honey birds brought back from Tianshan Mountains, arranged a place for them in the zoo, and let them get acquainted other animals in the zoo.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the zoo, Li Xiao bumped into a group of tourists led by tour guides.

Nowadays, as Li Xiao's zoo is becoming more and more famous and attracting more and more tourists, the local area has begun to pay more and more attention to tourism, building and repairing some ski resorts, large Guan Gong statues, Qiao's courtyard, There are more and more places to visit here, such as the Li Family Courtyard, and so on. Naturally, there are more and more tour guides.

"Isn't this the headmaster?"

"How lucky! I just came to the zoo today and met the director!"

"This is Xiao Hei, even more handsome than what he saw in the live broadcast."

"Ye Fu and Guang Fu are so cute."

"Director, can we take a picture."

The appearance of Li Xiao immediately attracted cheers from these tourists.

These tourists are basically Li Xiao's fans, and Li Xiao naturally must satisfy the fans' demands.

After taking some photos with this group of tourists, Li Xiao entered the zoo with them.

Because Li Xiao hadn't come back for a long time today, he still wanted to check on the conditions of other animals and re-plan the zoo, so Li Xiao didn't stay with these tourists for long, after saying goodbye to them, he began to check on these animals one by one.

Whirlwind, Evil Eye, Dandan, Little White Fox, King Jiji, Xiong Da Xiong Er, Golden Koi, Big Big Wolf, Little Huihui, White and Green Twin Snakes, Silverback Gorilla, Giant Panda Pipi, and the prototype of Godzilla...

Li Xiao is very serious, and will stay in each park for a while, and will look at every animal.

In addition to checking their physical conditions, we also chat with them, asking them if they are used to living here, and if they have encountered any problems that the breeder has not noticed.

After Li Xiao wandered around the entire zoo, before he knew it, it was already twelve noon.

Lunch is of course settled in the canteen of the zoo.

As soon as he sat down with the food, Li Xiao received a video chat request from Tao Yaoyao.

Li Xiao pressed the button to accept, and was about to take the chopsticks to put the rice into his mouth, when he saw Tao Yaoyao turned the camera excitedly, and said: "Director, look quickly, that white pheasant has eaten the food we prepared , not only that, but it brought its companions."

Li Xiao looked up while listening to Tao Yaoyao.

I saw that the white pheasant had fallen from the roof into the yard.

Beside it, there are five white pheasants of different sizes.

Li Xiao observed through the screen, and the remaining five white pheasants had two females and three chicks, which hadn't fully grown up yet.

Because the corners of the beaks of the three chicks are still slightly yellowed, just like sparrow chicks, and their feathers are not particularly plump.

Li Xiao roughly guessed that it should be that the weather has been getting colder and colder recently, and it is gradually approaching autumn, so these animals living in the wild have less food, especially white pheasants, which eat plants and insects. Now the plants are basically withered, and the insects have retreated to the depths of the soil to hibernate. In desperation, they can only go down the mountain to ask themselves for help.

It's just because I'm naturally afraid of people, so I stayed on the roof from the beginning and didn't want to fall down.

After chatting with Tao Yaoyao for a while, Li Xiao hung up the video.

But as soon as he hung up, someone sent a video request.

Li Xiao was holding the chopsticks at this time, and just brought the rice to his mouth, when he saw the person who was playing the video, he immediately put down the chopsticks again and quickly accepted it.

"It's really rare. A busy person like you is not busy filming TV dramas, honing your acting skills, or participating in variety shows to be a mentor for others. Why do you have time to send me videos?"

After accepting it, Li Xiao laughed and teased.

"Hey, director, don't make fun of me. I'm not as busy as you. You just came back from Tianshan Mountain and found a virgin forest."

This tone, this mantra, people who are familiar with it can recognize it at once.

That's right!

It was... the little sheep Zhang Yixing!
During the recording of "Longing for Life", Li Xiao exchanged contact information with everyone, but because he was too busy, he seldom contacted each other.

Unexpectedly, I received a video of Little Sheep today.

(End of this chapter)