Partridges in ancient my country symbolized separation, sadness, loneliness and other artistic conceptions. The partridge's voice is sad and can easily cause melancholy and longing. The male and female partridges often sing in harmony, so they are often used to describe the husband's singing and the wife's following, and the love between the man and the woman.

Partridge generally expresses the feelings of a wanderer, the emotion of leaving home, and the sorrow of a traveler. Because the call of the partridge is pronounced "brother", the traveler already feels sad when leaving his hometown, and the feeling becomes even more intense when he hears such a call.

Life habits

Like to live alone or in pairs, like other chickens, they are good at forming groups. It flies very fast and often flies in a straight line. They are extremely vigilant and always hide in grass or bushes, making them extremely difficult to spot. Most of them fly to high places after being frightened.

The Chinese Partridge is omnivorous and feeds mainly on grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, ants and other insects. It also eats various herbs, as well as buds, leaves, berries and seeds of shrubs, as well as farmland. Scattered grains, rice grains, peanuts, yellow millet and other grain particles, as well as sweet potatoes, pinellia, locust fruits, rapeseed flowers, etc.