Why is tremella love birds called this name?

Since ancient times, there have been many anecdotes about love birds. You can see its loyalty to love from its name. So many literati write love poems with love birds as the theme. There is such a poem in Bai Juyi's famous Song of Eternal Sorrow: "We hope to fly in the sky, two birds grow together on the ground with one wing, two branches of a tree." . "love birds" in the poem refers to love birds with a red mouth.

There are two kinds of love birds, one is love birds with red beak, and the other is love birds with tremella, both of which are famous ornamental cages in China. Among them, the red-billed lovebird, also known as "love birds", is not only a gift for ancient wedding activities, but also an object that flower and bird painters in past dynasties like to depict.

The name "love birds" has a long history. Since ancient times, there have been many legends and stories about love birds. People named it "love birds" because this kind of bird likes to move in pairs. Especially the red-billed lovebirds, males and females are always in pairs, loving each other, like young couples.

Every breeding season, it seems a little shy, quietly hiding in a quiet place, inseparable from each other, snuggling together, combing each other's feathers and making all kinds of intimate movements, just like lovers in love. It is said that when a male bird marries a female bird, the red-billed lovebird will accompany her for life. If one bird dies, the other will be silent and unhappy, even refuse to eat or drink, and finally die of double suicide.

Although this kind of thing usually happens in captivity, it is rare in the wild, but people think it died of lovesickness, so it is called "lovesickness", and they think they are typical representatives of birds loyal to love.