Ever since I read the story of "cicada and ant" in "Insect Story", I have learned that people are really hardworking. La Fontaine's fable is well known: Throughout the summer, cicadas do nothing but stand on the treetops and sing, while ants are busy storing food. Winter came, ants put wet food in the sun, and a hungry cicada came to beg. As a result, he was treated awkwardly.
The ant proudly asked, "Why don't you collect some food in summer?" Cicada replied, "I am too busy to sing in summer." "Haha, do you sing in summer?" The ant replied rudely, "OK, then you can dance in winter!" " "Finally, the poor cicada starved to death. However, according to Fabres, the author of this book and a famous French entomologist, all this is a rumor. In fact, cicadas are the real producers.
I didn't believe it at first, but after reading it, I had an opinion about ants. Because this is Fabres's personal observation experience. Cicada's mouth is like a miniature diamond, singing and greedily sucking the sweat from the tree. In this way, it motionless, absorbed, immersed in singing and dew. However, in a short time, ants and other insects will come to snatch sweat, cicadas will be driven away by persistent ants, and insects will take the opportunity to drink water.
But without the water pump, it will soon dry up, and they will torture the second and third cicadas … ants are really robbers! Cicada is deaf. Just avoid its six eyes, even if you put dozens of firecrackers next to it, it will be indifferent. There is a more appropriate sentence for it: "Yell like a deaf person." Books can cure stupidity. Look, if you don't read, how can you know that ants are robbers, cicadas are producers and deaf?
This story tells me that ants are robbers, and people who show diligence are not necessarily real hardworking people. Today, I read the fable "cicada and ant". The main content is that ants are insatiable exploiters. It moved everything it could eat to its own granary, and cicada would never run to the ants and cry hungry again, and solemnly promised to pay back the money with interest in the future.
Ants exploit cicadas shamelessly and often rob them. Borrowing and borrowing have never been the habit of predators. In July, a fire broke out, and swarms of insects were thirsty, while cicadas landed on a small tree and sucked juicy bark with their mouths. Soon, these uninvited guests like ants discovered this sweet spring. Some of them bite cicada's wings, some bite cicada's claws, and the bravest straw bites cicada, so that cicada can't stand it.
Flying and flying, the ants became the owner of this "well" after five or six weeks. The singer's life was exhausted. The ants who never flinched when they were robbed saw it, tore up these "delicacies" unceremoniously, dismembered them and moved back to the nest. You can even see that the cicada is dying, but its wings are still shaking, but the little ants are rushing to pull it and tear it in all directions. At this time, the cicada is extremely sad.
Cicada is so pitiful because it is too fragile, not strong and easy to be bullied by others. Ant, hateful and unsympathetic, bites the hand that feeds it, but the way it never flinches from robbing it makes people feel a fearless spirit, but this spirit is not easy to use. Although this fable is about insects, its central idea is to educate us to be strong, compassionate and fearless.