Don't beat the branches. What does it mean that the bird is waiting for its mother to come back in the nest?

Who knows that the life of a group is small, and it is generally flesh and blood.

I advise you not to pat a bird. My son will be in the nest waiting for his mother to come back.

Who says the lives of these birds are insignificant? They are as flesh and blood as human beings. I advise you not to chase the birds on the branches, because the young birds in the nest are expecting their mother to come back.

This is a seven-character quatrain Bird written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The language of the whole poem is simple and natural, and it exhorts people to be kind to animals through the natural phenomenon of "children look forward to their mother's return" with true feelings, expressing concern and sympathy for the fate of birds. This is not only an ecological consciousness, but also a profound moral: the poet deliberately compared people to birds and advised the dignitaries at that time to learn to respect the people, because the people have the same life and dignity as the dignitaries.