Fishing with birds

Wang Daming is sitting on the shore cooking. There is a big bird on his head. This bird is a cormorant. Daming is a fisherman. He is over 65 years old now, but he still works every day. He is thin and average in height, but he is very suitable for this job, even though he is an old man. He is strong enough to control his raft in the river where he lives and works with his birds.

Cormorants are large black birds, about one meter long. They are good at fishing because they can swim well downstream. Their big feet allow them to cross the water quickly. They can dive 25 meters and stay underwater for 2 minutes.

Daming doesn't need fishing nets and fishing rods to catch fish, because he has 12 cormorants to do it. Fishing trips are always in the afternoon. Daming and his bird are sitting on his bamboo raft. When he reached the right place, he stopped. A piece of grass is tied around each bird's neck so that they can't swallow the fish. Then Daming pushed the fish into the water and let them jump up and down with his bamboo pole. At night, hanging a lamp on the bow can make fishermen see more clearly and attract fish. The cormorant went down to catch fish again, and then returned to the bamboo raft. Some of the caught fish were sold, while others were given to Daming's family and his cormorants.

Fishing with cormorants is a tradition in China. About 1000 years ago. Daming likes his job. He taught his grandson everything he knew. However, in today's era, few young people are interested in this kind of work. In the next 50 years, perhaps fishermen who fish like cormorants will disappear from this world.

Ignore the guy on the second floor. He translated in the translator.