Bird on the Miao Embroidery
1 min readMiao’ s Epic”Kaitian Pidi( equivalent to Genesis)”says, long long ago, the Sky and Earth is as big as a straw hat. Only with the fooling, hatching by the Giant Bird and Kodi and Kole, it expands to what it is now. The Twelve Eggs” says that Butterfly Mama had a romance with Water Bubble before she laid twelve eggs As she could not hatch, Jiyu Bird came to help, thus all the life as well as the ancestor of Human race Jiangyang were able to appear in this world.
“Chiyou Legend” says that when the big flood was going to topple the Chiyou Dam, it was the Divine Bird came with the message to rescue the Miao people and the Bird again snatched the grain and wood seeds from the torrents so that we have grains and woods now. In Miao folklore, proposing and engagement is called “asking for chicken” Chicken is fowl or bird and seed, so it means offspring.
Bird as the symbol of masculinity is a cross-nation cultural phenomenon and bird style decoration and bird like carvings are commonly seen in daily life of the people everywhere. So it is in sub -conscience related to asking blessings for family prosperity.
