On the surface, the phrase "hang down and drink clear dew" is about the shape and feeding habits of cicadas, but in fact it contains metaphorical symbols everywhere. "Being righteous" means official position, because the ancients often used "official camp" to refer to dignitaries. In the eyes of ordinary people, the identity and status of a prominent official is contradictory to that of a "door guest", or even incompatible with each other, but in the author's pen, it is unified in the image of a cicada "hanging its head and drinking clear dew".
The phrase "the sound of flowing water makes trees sparse" describes the spread of cicada singing. Indus is a tall tree, and the word "sparse" indicates that its branches are tall and straight, which echoes the "autumn wind" in the last sentence. Cicada cadences with the word "sound of walking", and the sound is long; The word "Chu" visualizes the idea of cicada singing spreading far and wide, and makes people feel the loudness and strength of cicada singing. Although the whole sentence only writes cicada singing, it imagines the high standard and elegant rhyme of the anthropomorphic cicada in Tsinghua.
Cicada is a five-character ancient poem by Yu Shinan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and it is a poem with symbolic significance. These two sentences, "Let the dew drop and the cicada will clear the tree", imply people's purity, beauty and elegance with cicada dew and cicada sound spreading thousands of miles, and express their warm praise and high confidence in people's inner character. Concise and vivid, smart and competitive, plus noble and arrogant personality, it is really intriguing.
Yu Shinan's cicada