Just for the cuckoo not to sing was enough to depress this mourner. At the youthful age of 27, the late-Qing scholar of Chinese culture Wang Guowei (1877-1927), seeing literature full of people sobbing and birds wailing, did not eulogize the cuckoo, but satirized it: "Cuckoo!
二十七歲、時仍年輕的清末國學大師王國維，看人、鳥皆哭哭啼啼，不詠杜鵑，反而「嘲杜鵑」：杜鵑啊！