Last weekend, I went to Shanghai Changning Campus to study, because it is located in the old city and there are tall and lush trees along the road. The cicada on the tree is endless, loud and high frequency, one after another.
I was in a trance for a while. I have lived in the city for a long time, and it seems that I haven't heard such a loud cicada for a long time. The deep cicada singing in my memory still exists next to the big tree in the country where I spent my summer vacation when I was young. When I heard cicadas singing in the old city, I felt very kind and happy.
At that time, I remembered a poem we learned in middle school, Dondero's Cicada. "His flight went through the fog heavily, and his pure voice was drowned in the wind world. Who knows if he is still singing? Who will listen to me? ? "？ The author of this poem takes cicada as a symbol to show that he has been wronged and imprisoned, but he has not changed his noble character, so he uses this poem to show his ambition.
Cicada, whose scientific name is Cicada, is an insect that lives widely in subtropical areas. In June and July every year, in order to attract females to mate, male cicadas will make loud, harsh and high-frequency sounds through the two layers of drum membranes in the abdomen.
The cicada song brings the curtain of summer, which is the best symbol of the cycle of the four seasons and the creation of nature. When we slow down the fast pace of life in city easy, let's listen to the voice of nature-"cicada singing". Let's go through the Millennium and feel the beauty of cicada singing in China's ancient poems.
Cicadas usually live in July and August in summer and die in autumn, even before winter, so there is the idiom "Cicadas don't know snow".
In ancient poetry, cicada, a seasonal insect, is often used as a signal of seasonal change, and the cicada sound gradually disappears, which usually symbolizes the beginning of autumn.
Xu Ling of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties wrote in Shantang poems: "The ape cries to know the valley is late, and the cicada swallows the mountain to feel autumn"; In Xue Daoheng's Poems on a Summer Night, there is also a sentence that "the sky is clear and the color is far away, and the autumn wind enters the cicada".
Bai Juyi, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote in the "Night Banquet": "Xia Chan is exhausted, and the new autumn geese are coming." Jong Li, a poet in the Southern Tang Dynasty, also wrote the poem "A thousand miles of dreams break the waning moon, and cicadas send early autumn".
The life habits of cicadas must be a quiet place with lush trees. Even in hot weather, it is still cool in the shade.
In the prose of ancient poetry, the environment is described by comparison and rendered by cicada singing. It has also become a kind of life interest for literati to listen to cicadas.
Xin Qiji, a famous uninhibited poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote "Xijiang Moon surprises magpies, and the breeze chirps at midnight". In the five-character poem "Entering Ruoyexi", Wang Ji of the Southern Dynasties used two sentences: "The cicadas make Lin Jing quieter, and the Yingong Mountain is quieter" to express the tranquility, and the cicadas sing birds to describe the tranquility in the forest.
There is a sentence in Li Bai's poem "Pink Landscape Song of Shaofu in Dangtu, Zhao Yan", which means "Day and night are over, and there is no cicada". These two sentences directly express the tranquility of the environment by not hearing cicadas.
This usage is also quite common. In addition to the bright moon, wild geese and cicadas, homesickness is also expressed in ancient poems. The homesickness of cicadas is often combined with autumn.
Lu Chang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, heard the cicada singing in the morning and recalled the autumn in his hometown. He wrote "Smell the cicada early": "When the sun sets early, the cicada is anxious, and the guests are more worried. There is a sound to the pillow, and the dream falls to the hometown "; The cicada singing also caused Bai Juyi's sadness and homesickness. He wrote in the poem "Early Cicada", "Like cicada singing, it enters the ears of idle people first. When I hear sadness, I will listen to my hometown. " Zhu Zeng, a master of Neo-Confucianism, listened to cicadas and wrote a poem "Sushan Temple Smells Cicadas": "The summer leaves are dark, but now I smell cicadas. This is already shocking, and it is more worthwhile to watch the sunset. "
Cicada is very harsh and even has some sadness in it. In ancient times, many literati and poets liked to write about their parting from cicadas.
Liu Yong, a well-known graceful poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote the scene of leaving his lover in Rain Linlin, that is, "I am cold and sad, and the pavilion is dying", expressing the sadness of leaving my lover through the sadness of cicada singing.
Wang Bo, one of the four outstanding talents in the early Tang Dynasty, suffered setbacks in his official career. He wrote that "the eagle wind withered the late leaves, and the cicada dew wept the autumn branches", and regarded the cicada singing as cicada weeping, using the dew beside the cicada as a metaphor for cicada tears, empathizing with them and expressing his sadness.
There is also Lu You's poem "Autumn Smells Cicada", which says that "the setting sun tentacles, the pavilion scratches its head and lingers late. Cicada is the most hateful thing in the world, and it is to see people off into autumn. " This is also a masterpiece of cicada singing away from sorrow and not hating.
It is also mentioned in today's lyrics. Vincent Fang's classic song "Thousands of miles away", "My future is as thin as a cicada's wing, who can't stand it, I'll send you away, thousands of miles away" is the image of cicada in ancient poetry.
Because cicadas live in high branches, feed on rain and dew, and don't eat fireworks, they are often praised by scholars for their noble morality and integrity.
The three most classic poems about cicadas, except the one "Who believes in nobility and who will listen to me again?" Luo wrote it in prison? There is also Yu Shinan's "Cicada": "Hanging down and drinking dew, smelling Shu Tong. It's not the autumn wind that makes you afraid to speak loudly. " In this cicada song, the poet wrote about the lofty and handsome cicada. Cicada is noble in nature. It can sing far and wide without the help of external forces. The same is true of people. As long as they are noble and confident, they are not afraid that their fame will not spread far.
Another famous cicada song is "Cicada" written by Li Shangyin, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, which says, "Be hungry and sing in the night sky". Oh, this last broken breath, in the green indifferent trees! . Yes, I am like a driftwood. I have made my garden full of weeds. I thank you for your sincere advice and live a pure life like you. "The cicada in the poem symbolizes its own situation. Although different from ambition, life is hard, but still willing to maintain that noble.
This is a poem related to "cicada singing" in ancient Chinese poetry, and it is also the six most related usages of cicada in poetry.
Even if it is only a common insect in nature, it is not like it in the eyes of scholars because of its growth characteristics. These images are "spring breeze, bright moon, red beans, willow" and so on. They interpreted the magnificent classical poems of China which have been handed down for thousands of years.
Today, when contemporary people are busy with their lives, isn't it also a matter of cultivating sentiment and appealing to both refined and popular tastes to slow down and savor the beauty of nature in combination with ancient poems?