Taiwan's national bird, the blue magpie

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I like the blue wings, the red beak, and the red feet. This charming picture appears in the huge advertisement for Taiwan along the walls of the Linkway in Bugis station, Singapore. The blue magpie is in the mural on both sides, so you see it on your outward journey and on the return. the blue magpie eats snakes. That meets with my approval.

Wiki says

The Taiwan blue magpie^[2] (Urocissa caerulea), also called the Taiwan magpie, Formosan blue magpie

 (Chinese: 臺灣藍鵲; pinyin: Táiwān lán què), or 

the "long-tailed mountain lady" (Chinese: 長尾山娘; pinyin: 

Chángwěi shānniáng; Taiwanese Hokkien: Tn̂g-boé soaⁿ-niû), is a bird species in the crow family. It is endemic to Taiwan.

I can recognize the Chinese symbol for mountain in the bird name, Shan, a pitchfork pointing up ith no handle, reperesenting a mountain peak in the middle.

I have always wanted to visit Taiwan and to see the gold treasures in their national musuem. Let's look at Taiwan, starting with the flag.

The flag of Taipei has the blue sky, white sun, and red earth.

 "Blue Sky with a White Sun flag" (青天白日旗; qīngtiān báirì qí)

qīng blue

tiān sky

bái white

rì Sun

qí)

The central characters, sky, white, and sun, are common, frequently used signs,  known as radicals.

If you are tempted to plan to visit Taiwan, the capital, Taipei, is in the north.

The foods which I look forward to eating in Taiwan include

eggs stewed in soy sauce.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_blue_magpie

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