The first thing to explain is that WuSong pigeon refers to the carrier pigeon trained by a very small number of people in the original Wusong District, and Wusong pigeon is not what people say that the whole country looks at Shanghai and Shanghai looks at WuSong. All over the country, in various districts and counties of Shanghai, a large number of breeding pigeons and racing pigeons are bred and raised, and in Shanghai alone, Mr. Li Meiling, the originator of the pigeon world, and Huang Zhong, Wang Fuyuan and other predecessors have left many good breeding pigeons. Zhang Shunkui's improvement of Li Seed, Ma Weiguo's Ma Jia Ash, the sensational Wu Shanggen, the rising stars of wusong region Li Yongchang, Jin Guoxing, Yu Kang, Cao Genrong, Ye Zhimin, Zhu Liping are numerous, and in terms of region, in the past, the Patriotic Second Village in Yangpu District and the Jiangwan Pigeon (now assigned to Hongkou District) represented by Xu Guanyong in Yangpu District were all famous.
Many years of pigeon racing have proved that the first place in ultra-long-range, long-distance and medium-distance races is not monopolized by one person, so Wu Song pigeon is not the first in the world, but the overall strength is slightly stronger. Since 1985, Shanghai has held 7 long-distance races, Wu Song has won 1 place in 6 teams, and won the first place in five consecutive years, and the 1000 km team race in Baoshan District basically won 1 place in the team. In the 1990 batch of 3 batches of Sanmenxia competition, except for 3 Putuo District and 8 Zhabei District, the other 8 places were all next to Baoshan District, and Baoshan District had a greater advantage in terms of overall strength.
The geographical environment of Wu Song Pigeon
Wu Wei was originally a small town in Baoshan County, its subordinate after several changes, after the Cultural Revolution began to build a separate district, in 1988 demolished two to build one, on the basis of most of the baoshan district, Wusong district on the basis of the new Baoshan District, with Songxing Road and West Weixing Road as the main body, the past Hebang is the current Songbin Road east to a small triangle area on the edge of the Huangpu River and some of the areas composed of scattered houses at that time, the scope is extremely small, in the southeast corner of Baoshan District.
The origin of Wu Song pigeon
In the early days of liberation, due to the low living aquatic products of the people, there were very few carrier pigeon breeders, and in 1952, Wu Song only wang Shunxing and Zhang Wenyu joined the Chinese carrier pigeon association. In recent years, fanciers have been very interested in knowing Wusong's old peach blossoms, namely sand eyes and sharps, but there are many opinions, especially for the top ones, and there are those who are deceived. According to the spirit of the Dalian Conference of Chinese Carrier Pigeons, the breed of carrier pigeons with local names is not adopted, but the name of Wu Wei pigeon has been called by fanciers before the Dalian Conference, especially after Cao Genrong and Li Xingwei won the first runner-up of Shule River in 1987, yang Miaogen won 6 (2 hens), and the words of the bloodline Wu Song pigeon appeared on the "Shanghai Pigeon Research" and "Chinese Carrier Pigeon", and the concept of the name of Wu Song pigeon was vague. But nowadays the society has accepted this common name, and dozens of foreign pigeons are named in local magazines, such as Belgian pigeons, British pigeons, American pigeons, Taiwan pigeons, Kyoto, Jiuya, etc. There are no opponents, so fanciers call the carrier pigeons in wusong area wusong pigeons is also natural, and for many reasons can not be named in personal names, the reason is nothing more than blind people eating wontons.
At the beginning of the liberation period, there were only 156 pigeon breeders in Wusong Town, including the fathers and grandfathers of Wang Shunxing, Zhang Wenyu and Jin Huiguang, Jin Guoxing and his father, Huang Housheng and Huang Ronghua's father Huang Dakang, Huang Yueliang, Shi Fengshan, and Shen Genfa. With the development of social stability and economic construction, the people's lives continue to improve, the pursuit of new high-level high-tech amateur production, breeding pigeons more and more people, our district in 1984 only 216 members, at the end of 1990 there were 1422 members, in Shanghai is only a small meeting.
What achievements of Wu Song pigeon in the past are worthy of praise:
In 1953, Wang Shunxing pigeon won: 1 in Zhenjiang, 3 in Xuzhou;
In 1954, Wang Shunxing pigeon won: 5th, 6th in Beijing;
In 1955, Wang Shunxing pigeon won; 1st place in Beijing, Jiang Jiuhua won the first place in Jinan;
In 1956, Wang Shunxing stopped breeding;
1958 Release of Tongguan: 1st huang housheng pigeon, 2nd wang shunxing pigeon, 5th, 8th and 11th pigeon Bai Hongsheng;
In 1959, Wang Shunxing pigeon won 1st prize in Lanzhou;
In 1960, Li Yongchang won 1st prize from Xining (52 to 4 pigeons in total);
In 1961, Wang Shunxing won 1st young bird Xuzhou, 2nd and 3rd taiyuan pigeons, and 6th Bo Hongsheng pigeon;
At 14 July 1964 at 6:45 a.m. in Xining, 120 pigeons were released, and by 9 pigeons, Wang Shunxing pigeons won 4th and 8th prizes;
In 1965, the spring division was released to Beijing: Wang Shunxing pigeon won 1st prize, And Bai Hongsheng pigeon won 5th pigeon;
Wang Shunxing won 1 place (65-2531) at the Beijing National Games in the autumn, and was released to Zhengzhou in 1966 for some reason;
In 1975, he was released to Lanzhou, where Yu Kang won 1 prize and Wang Shunxing won 75 pigeons;
In the 1985 Shanghai 500 km team race (equal distance), 1st Su Zhizhi pigeon, 2nd Su Xuezhi pigeon, 4th Wang Miaofa pigeon (son of Wang Shunxing), 6th Huang Yongming pigeon and 10th Cao Genrong pigeon;
In 1985, Xin'an was released, and Ye Zhimin won 1st pigeon and Li Yongchang pigeon 4th;
In 1987, when the Shule River was released, Cao Genrong won a first prize, Li Xingwei won a 2nd prize and Yang Miaogen won 6th (2nd hen).
According to the above incomplete recollections, over the years, Wu Wei pigeons have flown more ideally and steadily, which shows that several of Wu Song's pigeon breeding predecessors dared to introduce and dare to innovate. In ancient times, there were Bole Maxima, and they were able to identify breeding pigeons and racing pigeons and breed Wusong pigeons, becoming one of the many pigeon breeds, I think real fanciers will not object, and with the passage of time there will be fanciers who will breed more and better new strains to add red flowers and green leaves to the Cause of Chinese Carrier Pigeons.
The origin of the old peach blossom (sand eye).
In the autumn of 1953, Zhang Wenyu, one of the two people who participated in the pigeon association in Wusong Town, transferred a from Mr. Wang Yuanjing, president of the Pudong United Pigeon Association, and a hen that flew over Suzhou from Mr. Ding Peixin, and the whole flock pigeon was transferred to Mr. Wang Shunxing, and a descendant of one pigeon was released to Beijing in 54 years and won 5 (6 were yellow eyes introduced by Wu Guizhen, and Wu could not tell what strain it belonged to).
This pair of sand-eyed carrier pigeons and 5 beijing pigeons, selected and bred by Wang Shunxing and Bai Hongsheng, has roughly become a type of hair and has been widely bred in the Wusong area, and is named after the peach blossom.
Descendants of Japanese military pigeons
During the Japanese invasion of China, there were Japanese troops stationed in the present-day Guomian No. 8 Factory and raised military pigeons, but the Japanese army failed to move all the pigeons after the surrender, and there was a Yangzhou person in the factory, known as the tea house Ah Bao's adopted Japanese abandoned military pigeons because he loved carrier pigeons, and Jing gave a descendant to Mr. Wang Shunxing. Wang won the first place in Beijing in 1955, and before the competition, Jiang Jiuhua participated in the Jinan Competition in the Shanghai Association and won the first place. Because the Chinese Pigeon Association found that this pigeon was released under the name of Jiang Jiuhua in Shanghai, asked them to give up the Beijing or Jinan ranking, after consultation, the pigeon belonged to Wang, and the Beijing ranking was better, so it gave up the Jinan ranking, which also showed that this pigeon was not an idle generation.
Wu Song's tip - crooked tail
In 1956, Professor Qian Zongyi of Tongji University wanted to introduce a Xuzhou pigeon from Wang Shunxing, and Bai Hongsheng went to Professor Qian's home to see a crooked-tailed yellow-eyed hen, one of the four sisters of Yanzhou, with a slender beak, a small nose, and a medium-sized small size, and the tail feathers were tilted to one side when he started. After they discussed, they asked Shi Boxing to exchange it back at Qinglian Pavilion, and according to the appearance characteristics of this pigeon, it was called crooked tail - tip, and over time it was also called Shunkou, commonly known as Wu Song Tip.
This crooked tail tip was introduced with several males, the next generation homecoming rate is particularly high, in 58 years, when the release of Tongguan, Huang Houren won 1 place, Wang Shunxing won 2 places, Bai Hongsheng won 4, 5, 8, 11 places, Mr. Qian Zongyi brought back two young birds and both returned. The town of Wusong saw its first peak in the history of pigeon breeding, and in 1960 Li Yongchang won 1 place in Xining, also the daughter of a brother and sister paired with a crooked tail. Yu Kang loved pigeons from a young age, and won 1 place in Lanzhou in 75 years after the introduction of the descendants of the crooked tail tip from Li Yongchang, and formed a line of its own after careful selection and pairing. It is characterized by a short neck, shoulders, thin feathers and fine hairs, less than 20 pigeons per shed, and no more than three pigeons per shed, but the long-distance races are within 100. Li Yongchang introduced foreign varieties to cross, and the two of them can be described as a family of their own, and they are well-known in the Wusong area.
Wang Shunxing won 2 and 3 places in Taiyuan in 61 years, and Bai Hongsheng won 6 places as pigeons. Mr. Shi Fengshan, who lives in Wusong and teaches in Changning District, is also a guest of Wang Shunxing's family, saying that he can introduce good pigeons, and soon he borrowed a yellow-eyed raindrop hen from Mr. Lu Jinfa, Wang and Bai thought it was a good pigeon, and soon laid an egg, and the descendants flew taiyuan 2, 3, and 6, because Shi Fengshan was imprisoned, the borrowed pigeon was returned to Mr. Lu Jinfa by Bai Hongsheng and the pigeon.
Heavenly Pigeon - Amami Daikyō (Legendary Weather Pigeon)
One afternoon in 1964, Wang Shunxing entered a pigeon wearing a Japanese foot ring in the shed, when Bai Hongsheng and Li Yongchang were present, Zhan Yu saw that there was a large sword printed on it, and it was checked that Japan had the name of this place. The three believe that it is a good pigeon, with eight daughters of Xining in 64 years, who won the first prize of the National Games in "65-2531", won 1st place in the spring Beijing release Wang Shunxing, and 5th place in Bai Hongsheng, who is the descendant of the crossbreeding of crooked tails and Japanese pigeons.
The above imported pigeons were selected and crossed by Wang Shunxing and Bai Hongsheng and bred widely in the Wusong area, such as Ye Zhimin was released in Xin'an in 1986 and won the first prize under very bad weather, 8th, 142nd and 155th zhangye in 1989, and 8 (Gu Wenming) and 2 in Yumen in Tianshui in 1990 were also related by blood. The descendants of the old peach blossom and top pigeons have so far achieved very good results in the competition and are loved by fanciers in wusong area. Wang Shunxing, Bai Hongsheng, Jiang Jiuhua, Li Yongchang, Yu Kang, Xu Anfang, Huang Yueliang, Jin Guoxing, Cao Genrong, Li Xingwei and other comrades used the selection of hybrids to produce a new generation, and the above comrades made great contributions to the breeding of Wusong pigeons, and created a new peak when they released the Shule River for 2424 kilometers in 1987.
Mr. Li Meiling, Huang Zhong, Wang Fuyuan of Shanghai and Zhou Yixi, a native of Yuepu, Baoshan District, import pigeons from abroad in US dollars for the cause of pigeons in the motherland, and they are the pioneers and founders of china's pigeon industry. The pigeon breeding predecessors in the Wusong area of Baoshan District combined soil and ocean, foreign for medium use, and the selection of excellent hybrids to breed excellent pigeons is in line with darwin's and Pavlov's theory of hybridization to produce advantages, and also in line with the theory of biological evolution of survival of the fittest.