History of domestic geese

The breeding history of domestic geese is very long, which can be verified for at least two or three thousand years.

In Europe, Darwin mentioned in his book Variation of Animals and Plants at Home that "in Homer's epic, geese were domesticated too early in ancient Greece, and in ancient Roman temples, people raised domestic geese as sacrifices to God".

In China, it was recorded in the ancient book Zhuangzi: "An old friend liked it and ordered an homo erectus to kill the goose and cook it. The upright man asked,' If one can sing and the other can't, please laugh at him and kill him?' "The geese here are obviously artificially raised, which is the ancient name of domestic geese.

There are many people who love geese in history. The most famous one is Wang Xizhi, who left us the story of a Taoist priest changing geese in Huang Ting Jing and the legend that Guanyin Bodhisattva turned into an old woman and tricked Wang Xizhi into writing the Hall of Great Heroes with geese.

Coincidentally, there are stories of geese and wars in Europe and China:

On the outskirts of ancient Rome, there was a temple of Cupid, the patron saint, which kept a flock of geese. One day in 390 BC, Gauls attacked Rome at night. At this time, a group of geese heard the noise and woke up the sleeping soldiers. They fought quickly, repelled the attack and avoided disaster. From then on, the Romans regarded the goose as a sacred object and nicknamed it a "ghost bird".

"Zi Tongzhi Ji Jian Soup", "Li Su enters Cai Zhou on a snowy night" and "Li Su attacks Cai Zhou on a snowy night, and the enemy is at the edge of the city. There is a pond for raising geese and ducks on the edge of the city. He ordered the soldiers to disturb the goose and duck pond deliberately, and the noise made by the troops was covered up by the cries, which made the battle go very smoothly.

The same goose singing, different endings, is really a trick.