This article reportsd some propagating habits of Corrus monedula, Such as mating, selecting of nest area, feeding fledgling, and so on.

Since the publication of The Good Earth,scarce attention has been paid to the detail of a flock of crows whirring and cawing over the head of Wang Long,the protagonist.

The image of crow is relatively important in Chinese literature as one of the bird- images.

By probing into the cultural connotation of crow, this paper states that each word not only bears the rational meaning which is human being s understanding of the objective world, but also concentrates the cultural meaning in human social practice, which is result of the synthetic effects of many factors, such as cultural background, folk custom, etiquette, nice or nasty psychology.

Inextricably Plaintive and Serenely Graceful——A Textual Analysis of the Beauty of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe;

In the poem a great number of images, including raven, bust, and chamber door, are adopted to express the morose and melancholic feeling, and further present the subject of "Death of Beauty".

The raven as a major image rules the mood of the whole poem.

Determination of four iridoid glycosides in a famous Tibetan medicine Gentiana dahurica Fischer by HPLC;