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... he saw a magpie calling from top of a tree. Mama Shen smiled and said, “Miss, the magpie is calling. Today must have been a good day.”

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The magpie is universally admired for its intelligence and guile but it can be a nuisance to farmers. In China it has a positive connotation, a harbinger of joy and as such a magpie is used in paintings to wish someone joy as xǐ means ‘glad; joy; happiness’. If the character is shown upside down, like fu (good fortune) ...

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