Long did I wait, and you never came... until I lifted my head and heard the magpie's cheerful cry. Magpies of…
Long did I wait, and you never came... until I lifted my head and heard the magpie's cheerful cry.
Magpies often gather near farmlands and the edges of villages, nesting high in trees close to human homes. Zhao Lingshi once wrote, "The crow's cry brings mixed omens, but the magpie's song is most often a sign of good fortune." When a magpie perches upon a plum branch, people say it brings joy, a moment of happiness written upon the brows.