Why do birds want to face the phoenix?

There are different versions of the folk legend about "a hundred birds fly at the phoenix".

A legend goes like this: Phoenix used to be an ordinary bird with plain plumage, but it prepared for a rainy day and diligently collected fruit and food when the birds were carefree. Later, when there was a great drought, the birds couldn't find food and were dying of hunger. At this time, the Phoenix, which came back from afar, took out the fruits that she had collected for many years, which helped the birds tide over the difficulties. In order to thank Phoenix for saving his life, each bird chose the most beautiful feather from himself, gathered it together, made a colorful and dazzling bird coat, and presented it to Phoenix. From then on, Phoenix became the most beautiful bird and was elected as the king of birds. Every year on his birthday, hundreds of birds fly to congratulate him.

There is another legend, which is circulated in Luoping Mountain in the west of Fengyu District, Eryuan County, Yunnan Province. According to legend, every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the phoenix and the birds will come to Luoping Mountain for a party. One year, just as the phoenix was singing and dancing with the birds, it suddenly began to snow with goose feathers, and the cold wind rolled around, making the birds tremble with cold. Seeing this, Phoenix resolutely plucked off her feathers one by one and distributed them to all the birds to keep them out of the cold and urged them to flee quickly. When all the birds fled, the phoenix had all its feathers pulled out. The wind blew harder and harder, and the snow fell harder and harder. The phoenix finally froze to death on the top of the mountain because it was unable to resist the storm and could not fly. Since then, every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, hundreds of birds have to fly from a distance and make a mournful cry to mourn their leader. In order to commemorate the righteous act of Phoenix, people named a village and a river at the foot of Luoping Mountain Fengyulin and Fengyuhe respectively.

in the above legend, the phoenix plays the role of saving the suffering, sacrificing oneself for others and benefiting all beings.

"A hundred birds flock to the phoenix" has an ecological and natural basis, which is the phenomenon of bird migration. According to the investigation, in the middle of Luoping Mountain Group Peak, there is a big mouth with an altitude of more than 3, meters and a width of more than 1 meters. There are flat valleys between the hills on both sides of the mouth, and there are many rivers and lakes not far away, which provides an ideal place for migratory birds from afar to rest and feed. Therefore, from July to August every year, vegetable finches, bean finches, cuckoos, green birds, autumn chickens, pheasants, yellow ducks, cranes, seagulls, mountain birds, etc., which are from their hometown in Qinghai Lake, fly in large numbers. After resting in the bird-hanging mountain, they pass through southwest Sichuan and arrive in Myanmar, Thailand, India and other countries along the Hengduan Mountains in western Yunnan for the winter.

in this way, the so-called "birds flock to the phoenix" can be regarded as people's humanistic care for natural phenomena.

So, why should people give Phoenix the important task of saving the suffering and benefiting all beings? This must be found from the basic needs of people and the divinity possessed by Phoenix. Since there have been people in the world, the problem of food and clothing is the most basic problem, and it is impossible to solve this problem by manpower alone. Apart from human efforts, it depends to a large extent on the sky, that is, on nature. This is still the case today, especially in distant ancient times. To solve the problem of "temperature", one depends on the sun, and the other depends on the fire. Phoenix has the divinity of facing the sun and loving fire because it likes warm birds and birds, and the feathers of birds and birds have the property of keeping warm, which provides the foundation for people's association. To solve the problem of "satiety", we have to rely on food. The content of food is nothing more than fruit food and meat. As far as fruit food is concerned, there are two sources: collection and planting. Birds are masters of collecting fruit and food, and their skills can be seen but not achieved by people; But planting needs seeds. Where did the initial seeds come from? From afar. Only birds have such ability. All these provide a real image basis for people's association. There is also an important psychological basis, that is, when people encounter disasters and face difficulties, they always long for supernatural gods to save and protect them, and they always hope that selfless leaders and heroes who sacrifice themselves to save others will appear in their lives.

since "a hundred birds flock to the phoenix" has such a fair and beautiful meaning, it is reasonable to express it in the form of art. As a result, there was a classic solo of suona, "A Hundred Birds in the Phoenix". As a folk music, "Birds at the Phoenix" is popular in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places, with the characteristics of simplicity, vividness, closeness to nature and farm life. The film "A Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" is based on this. The film eulogizes the essence, spirit and spirit of the Chinese nation by telling the story of suona artists' persistence in the process of inheriting suona art.