occupy some place, belonging to another

occupy some place, belonging to another

Quechao Jiuzhan is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Qu è ch á Oji ū zh à n, which means that a quejiu can't make a nest. It is often strong enough to occupy the nest of a magpie. This refers to a woman married and settled in her husband's family. After the metaphor of occupation of other people's homes. From the book of songs, Zhaonan, quechao.

Idioms and allusions

There are two kinds of birds in the idiom "dove occupies the nest of magpie", magpie and dove. The less controversial one is dove. The dove here does not refer to dove. It refers to a cuckoo commonly known as cuckoo, which was called dove in ancient times. Lu Shuguang, who wrote Mao's poems in the Wu Dynasty, said, "dove, dove. Today it's called cuckoo. " In the book of songs, Cao Fengli also used the Chinese dove laying eggs everywhere to describe the chapter when his son was not around: "the Chinese dove is in the mulberry, and his son is in the plum The dove in the mulberry, its son in the thorn The dove is in the mulberry, and its seed is in the hazel Cuckoos belong to the family rhododendronidae, so it should be confirmed that they are members of the cuckoo family. But magpie belongs to crow family. It is bigger than Rhododendron, and its nature is ferocious. It is difficult for Rhododendron to get close to magpie nest. There is no record of cuckoo parasitizing in magpie nest in the field. One possibility is that the cuckoo can't build a nest, but the magpie is a real nesting master. The ancients made such a comparison, which is purely a literary imagination. Magpie's nest is ball shaped, with a diameter of up to 100 cm. It also knows how to open its entrance and exit on the side, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, making it difficult for hawks and harriers to succeed. The structure is very ingenious. Magpie can be said to be the benchmark of bird nesting. Nevertheless, it is still against nature and hard to justify. among the several kinds of birds that Rhododendron likes to foster, most are warblers and finches, and the smaller ones. Therefore, some scholars put forward a view that the ancients may have regarded the bird and magpie as homonyms. So "doves occupy nests" is actually "doves occupy nests". Such a statement is very constructive, and "Jiuzhan Nestle" does not change the pronunciation or meaning, but also conforms to the actual situation of the animal kingdom, which is the best of both worlds. in addition, in rural areas, because starlings can't build nests (some say they can't build outer nests, and the "decoration" inside the nests is OK), they often see a group of starlings besieging two magpies, driving them away and occupying the nest. This is also one of the sources of "the dove occupies the magpie's nest".

Idiom usage

As an object or complement, it refers to possessing other people's things

Analysis of Idioms

Magpie nest and dove house

The origin of Idioms

"The book of songs · Zhaonan · magpie nest": "the magpie has a nest, and the dove lives in it."