[Edit this paragraph] The influence of the work
The Insect Story written by Fabres is famous all over the world. This masterpiece occupies a place in the history of French natural science and literature. This masterpiece expresses the wonderful and amazing spirituality of insects in struggle for existence. Fabres recorded his achievements and experiences in insect research all his life in the form of most essays, carefully observed the life of insects and the struggle of races for survival and reproduction, and guided the vast amount of evidence of natural science with humanistic spirit, making the insect world a literary form for human beings to acquire knowledge, interest, beauty and thoughts, and writing the topic of small insects into a masterpiece with multi-level significance and all-round value. Such a work is really unprecedented in the world. No entomologist has such brilliant literary expression ability, and no writer has such profound entomological attainments. The author of Entomology was praised as "the founder of animal psychology" by French and international academic circles at that time. In his later years, Fabres published the last volumes of Insect Tales, which won him many readers not only in France, but also in European countries and all over the world. Literary circles honored him as "Virgil of the insect world", and French academic and literary circles recommended Fabres as a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature. Unfortunately, before the Nobel Committee made up its mind to award him this prize, the great poet who praised insects had died in his eyes.
Entomology has been translated into many languages and published. He is known as the "Insect Poet", and a large number of his works have been translated and published in China.
The Tale of Insects is a book written by Fabres. He spent his whole life observing the life of insects and their struggle for survival and reproduction, and then recorded his observations in detail and accurately. Insects has ten volumes, each volume contains several chapters, and each chapter describes the life of one or more insects in detail and profoundly: spiders, bees, mantis, scorpions and cicadas.
Entomology has become a must-read extracurricular book for primary and secondary school students in China.
It is worth mentioning that Fabres's Entomology not only records the life of insects, but also reflects the social life through the insect world. The instinct, habits, labor, marriage, reproduction and death of insects are permeated with the author's thinking about human beings, and his wise philosophical thinking is vividly on the paper. This book is full of love for life. Full of praise for everything.
[Edit this paragraph] Author introduction
(For details, see entry: Fables)
182365438+February 22nd, Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre, French entomologist, animal behaviorist and writer. Born in Provence, France, a farmer in the village of Saint Rennes. In the following years, Fables spent time with his grandparents in Malaval, not far from the village. At that time, he was attracted by lovely insects such as butterflies and slugs in the country.
1829, Fabres returned to St. Rennes to start school, but that childhood has been deeply engraved in his heart.
1833, fabrice's family came to rodez, and his father made a living by running a coffee shop.
1837, the family moved to Toulouse. Fables entered the seminary in Toulouse, but dropped out of school, went out to make a living, worked on the railway and sold lemons in the market. Later, he passed the selection examination of avignon Normal School, won a scholarship, and obtained a diploma from an institution of higher learning after three years' study. After graduation, Fables, then 19 years old, began his teaching career in Cabentra. His course was the history of natural science.
1849 was appointed as a physics teacher in ajaccio, Corsica. The beautiful natural scenery and rich species on the island ignited his enthusiasm for studying animals and plants. Le Quinn, a botanist in avignon, taught him knowledge. After that, he followed Mocan-Tang Tong to collect flowers and plants everywhere. This knowledgeable tutor laid a solid foundation for Fabres to become a naturalist and embark on the road of scientific research.
1853, fabrice returned to the French mainland, was hired by a school in avignon, and moved his family into a simple house in the Rue Saint Dominique.
1857, he published "Observation on the Habit of Ophiuchus argus", which corrected the wrong view of Leon dufour, the founder of entomology at that time, thus winning the praise of French research institute and being awarded the experimental physiology prize. During this period, Fabers also devoted himself to the study of natural dye madder or alizarin. At that time, the red color on French soldiers' trousers came from madder powder.
In 1860, Fabres obtained three patents for this kind of research. Later, at the invitation of Victor Durui, Minister of Education, fabrice was in charge of the organization and teaching of an adult night school, but its free teaching method caused some people's dissatisfaction. So he quit his job and settled in Orange with his family for more than ten years. In this decade, Fabres completed the first volume of ten volumes of Insects. During this period, he and his friends went to Wandu several times to collect plant specimens. In addition, he also got to know the British philosopher Mill, but Mill died young, which made their previous plan "Vascruz Vegetation Grand View" die. At the same time, a great misfortune befell Fabres: he had six children, among whom Jules, the only son, shared the same interests with his father and loved observing nature, and died at the age of sixteen. Since then, Fables has dedicated several plants he discovered to Jules who died young to express his memory. The study of fungi has always been one of Fables' hobbies.
1878, he wrote many wonderful academic articles on the theme of Vacruzzi's fungi. He also made a detailed study of Kuaizi and described his fragrance in detail. Gourmets claim that they can taste all the flavors described in his works from real chopsticks.
1879, fabrice bought a barren stone garden in Ang, cellini, and lived there until his death. This is a barren land, but it is the favorite land of insects. In addition to living for his family, there is also his study, studio and testing ground, which can make him concentrate on quiet thinking and devote himself to various observations and experiments. It can be said that this is the world he has always dreamed of. It was here that Fabres finished the last nine volumes of Insects while observing and experimenting, while sorting out the observation notes, experimental records and scientific notes of insects in the first half of his life. Today, this former residence has become a museum, quietly located in a botanical garden with strong Provence style.
Fabers insisted on self-study all his life, and successively obtained bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree in mathematics, bachelor's degree in natural science and doctor's degree in natural science. He is proficient in Latin and Greek and loves the works of Horace, an ancient Roman writer, and Virgil, a poet. He almost taught himself painting and watercolor painting, and many of his exquisite illustrations of fungi were praised by the Nobel Prize in Literature winner and French poet Frederic mistral. In his later years, Fabres's success in insects earned him the reputation of "Homer of Insects" and "Poet of Science", and his achievements were widely recognized by the society. Although fabrice has won many scientific titles, he is still as simple, shy and humble as ever, and leads a poor life. His talent was admired by scholars at that time, including British biologist Darwin, Belgian playwright maeterlinck, Nobel Prize in Literature winner of 19 1 1, German writer Jung, French philosopher Bergson, poet Malamei, Provence writer Roumani, and so on. Because Fables' experiment was accurately recorded in Insect Tales, which revealed many secrets of insect life and habits, Darwin called Fables an "imitative observer". When he lived in Cerini, many scholars and writers visited him in succession. Fabres had received Pasteur, British philosopher Mill and other scholars in his own residence, but his correspondence with them was not frequent. Victor Durui, Minister of Education, recommended Fables to Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte, who awarded him the Medal of Honor. French politician Raymond Poincare paid tribute to him by making a detour through Cerini. Fabres's works with multiple identities are varied: as a naturalist, he left many academic works on animals and plants, including Madder: Patents and Papers, Animals in avignon, Cuckoo, Mushrooms on Olive Trees, Grape Root Aphids and so on. As a teacher, he has compiled many textbooks of chemical physics. As a poet, he wrote many poems in Provence in southern France, and was affectionately called "Gadfly Poet" by the local people. In addition, he translated the works of some Provencal poets into French. In his spare time, he also creates some ditties with his small mouth. However, among Fabres's works, Insect is the longest, the most important and the most widely known one. This work not only shows his talent and literary talent in scientific observation and research, but also conveys his humanistic spirit and incomparable love for life to readers.
Chapters of the original book (refer to the complete works of insects of Huacheng Publishing House) Volume 1.
The first chapter scarab
Chapter II Big Cage
Chapter III Hemp flies preying on Sargassum
The fourth chapter oak spines abdomen mud bee
The fifth chapter clever killer
Chapter VI Yellow-footed migratory locust mud bee
Chapter VII Dagger Strike Three
Chapter VIII Larvae and Pupa
Chapter 9 superb theory
Chapter 10 languedoc Locust Mud Peak
Chapter 11 Skills endowed by instinct
Chapter 12 Instinctive ignorance
Chapter 13 Climbing Wandu Mountain
Chapter XIV Immigration
Chapter 15 Sand Mudbee
Chapter 16 Mudby
Chapter 17 Catch Diptera Insects
Chapter 18 Parasites and Cocoons
Chapter 19 Huiwo
Chapter 20 Stonebees
Chapter 21 Experiment
Chapter 22 Changing nests
Volume II
The first chapter barren stone garden
Chapter II Bursha Mudbee
Chapter III Unknown Senses
Chapter IV Instinct Theory
The fifth chapter black wasp
Chapter VI Campus
The seventh chapter is a new study on the stone bee.
Chapter 8 The Story of My Cat
Chapter 9 Red Ant
Chapter 10 Talking about the Psychology of Insects
Chapter 11 Black-bellied Wolf Spider
Chapter 12 Spider Bee
Chapter 13 The inhabitants of the raspberry heap
Chapter 14 Xi Sasakawa Sunny
Chapter 15 First instar larvae of Setaria viridis
Chapter 16 First instar larvae of centipede with short wings.
Chapter 17 Many abnormal situations
Volume III
Chapter 1 Ground Bees
Chapter II is full of dangers and dangers of eating.
Chapter III Scarab Larvae
Chapter IV The Problem of Soil Bees
Chapter V Various Parasites
Chapter VI Parasitic Theory
Chapter VII The Suffering of the Stone Bees
Chapter VIII Egg Bee
Chapter 9 Flap-winged wasp
Chapter 10 Another kind of roughneck
Chapter 11: The Two-state Phenomenon of Larvae
Chapter 12 Beetle
Chapter 13 Three Kinds of Huang Ruixiang
Chapter 14 Change recipes
Chapter 15 Poke Needle in Evolution
Chapter XVI Distribution of Food by Sex
Chapter 17 All kinds of wall bees
Chapter 18 Gender Distribution
Chapter 19 Mother dominates the sex of eggs
Chapter 20 Oviposition Exchange
Volume iv
Chapter 1 Long-bellied Bee
Chapter II Food of Black Spider Bees and Longbellied Bees
Chapter III Instinctive Errors
Chapter IV Swallows and Sparrows
Chapter V Instinct and Discrimination
Chapter VI Preservation of Physical Strength
Chapter VII Leaf-cutting Bee
Chapter VIII Macular Bee
Chapter 9 Fat-picking bees
Chapter 10 Newt Nesting
Chapter 11 Big-headed Mudbee
Chapter 12 Sand Mud Bees Method
Chapter 13 Method of Soil Bees
Chapter 14 Spider Bee Method
Chapter 15 Objections and Answers
Chapter 16 The venom of bees
Chapter 17 longicorn beetle
Chapter 18 The Problem of Tree Bees
The fifth volume
The first chapter scarab dung ball
Chapter two pear-shaped dung of scarab
Chapter 3 Modeling of Scarab
Chapter IV Scarab Larvae
Chapter V The emergence of pupae and scarabs
Chapter VI Broad-backed Scarab and Side-naked Dung Beetle
Chapter VII Spawning of Spanish dung beetles
Chapter VIII Motherly love of Spanish dung beetles
Chapter 9 Buzzing dung beetles and tassel dung beetles
Chapter 10 Dung beetles and public health
Chapter 11 dung beetles nesting
Chapter 12 Larvae of dung beetles
Chapter 13 The fable of cicada and ant
Chapter 14 Cicada out of the hole
Chapter 15 The emergence of cicadas
Chapter 16 Cicada's Singing
Chapter 17 Laying eggs and hatching of cicadas
Chapter 18 Mantis predation
Chapter 19 The love of mantis
Chapter 20 Mantis's Nest
Chapter 21 The hatching of mantis eggs
Chapter 22 Vertebral Mantis
Volume VI
The first chapter is about thinking about dung beetles's father's instinct.
Chapter II Moon-shaped dung beetles and bison double concave dung beetles
Chapter III Genetic Theory
Chapter IV My School
The fifth chapter is dung eaters in pampas grassland.
Chapter VI Coloring of Insects
Chapter VII Buried with Buried Armor
Chapter VIII Buried Armor Experiment
Chapter 9 Habits of the White-fronted Owl
Chapter 10 Oviposition and Hatching of Silurus meridionalis
Chapter 1 1 The vocal organs of the white-fronted owl
Chapter 12 Green Fruit Fruit
Chapter 13 Cricket's House and Eggs
Chapter XIV Singing and Mating of Crickets
Chapter 15 The role of locusts and sound generators
Chapter 16 Locusts Lay Eggs
Chapter 17 The emergence of locusts
Chapter 18 Spawning and Hatching of Dendrolimus punctatus
Chapter 19 The Nest and Society of Dendrolimus punctatus
Chapter 20 March of Dendrolimus punctatus
Chapter 21 Dendrolimus punctatus Meteorological Observatory
Chapter 22 Dendrolimus punctatus
Chapter 23 The sting caused by Dendrolimus punctatus
Chapter 24 Wild Strawberry Tree Caterpillar
Chapter 25 Insect Toxins
Volume 7
Chapter 1 Black Beetle with Big Head
The second chapter feign death
Chapter III Hypnotic Suicide
Chapter IV Old Elephant Worm
The fifth chapter mottled chrysanthemum elephant
Chapter VI Bear Back Chrysanthemum Elephant
Chapter VII Plant Instinct
Chapter 8 European oak elephant
Chapter 9 Hazelnut Elephant
Chapter 10 Poplar Green Volume Elephant
Chapter 11 Grape Tree Elephant
Chapter XII Other Leaf Curling Elephants
Chapter 13 Black thorn plum elephant
Chapter 14 Leaf beetle
Chapter 15 Leaf Beetle (Continued)
Chapter 16 Grass foam cicada
Chapter 17 Saw blade beetle
Chapter 18 Sawtooth Beetle Egg
Chapter 19 Reservoir
Chapter 20 Stone moth
Chapter 21 Oviposition moths
Chapter 22 The protective layer of moths
Chapter 23 Big Peacock Moth
Chapter 24 Small wide striped moth
Chapter 25 Sense of smell
Volume VIII
Chapter 1 Scarab
Chapter II Egg Laying by Pea Elephant
Chapter III Pea weevil larva
Chapter IV Bean Elephant
The fifth chapter is Toona sinensis
Chapter VI Insect Hunting Toona sinensis
Chapter VII Tunnel bees and parasitic flies
Chapter VIII Tunnel Beekeepers
Chapter 9 asexual reproduction of tunnel bees
Chapter 10 The cancer of aphids on sweet trees
Chapter 11 Migration of Toona sinensis aphids
Chapter 12 mating and oviposition of Toona sinensis aphids
Chapter 13 Aphid eaters
Chapter 14 The Green Fly
Chapter 15 Hemp flies
Chapter 16 Rotting Yan Insects and Dermatophagoides
Chapter 17 Pearl Scarab Chapter 18 The Geometry of Insects
Chapter 19 Wasps
Chapter 20 Wasps (continued)
Chapter 21 Aphids and flies
Chapter 22 Ribbon Ring Net Bee
Chapter 23 The tarantula in Nabone
Volume 9
The first chapter is the cave of Naborn tarantula.
The second chapter is the home of Naborn tarantula.
The third chapter Nabonne tarantula climbing instinct.
Chapter IV Migration of Spiders
Chapter V Crab Spider
Chapter VI Circular Spider Weaving Web
Chapter 7 My neighbor's spider
Chapter VIII Myxoid Insect-catching Net of Round Spider
Chapter 9 Circular Web Spider of Telegraph Line
Chapter 10 The Geometry of Spider Web
Chapter 11 mating and hunting of spider
Chapter XII Web Spider Industry
Chapter 13 Mathematical Memory: Newton Binomial
Chapter 14 Memory of Mathematics: My Little Table
Chapter 15 Labyrinth Funnel Spider
Chapter 16 Crow Spider
Chapter 17 Scorpion Habitat in languedoc
Chapter 18 languedoc Scorpion's Food
Chapter 19 languedoc scorpion venom
Chapter 20 Immunity of Scorpions and Grubs in languedoc
Chapter 21 languedoc Scorpion's Marriage and Love
Chapter 22 Scorpion Mating in languedoc
Chapter 23 languedoc Scorpion Family
Chapter 24 Wax-coated insects
Chapter 25 Cochineal insects of the genus Quercus
Volume 10
The first chapter dung beetles's cave.
Chapter Two: Tiffany dung beetles and the First Observer.
Chapter Three Tiffany dung beetles and the Second Observer
The fourth chapter is the moral view of Tiffany dung beetles.
Chapter V Spherical Elephant
Chapter 6 longicorn beetles and woodpeckers
Chapter 7 The bull hummed in the dung beetle's nest.
Chapter 8 Bulls are humming dung beetles' larvae and pupae.
Chapter 9 Songjil Scarab
Chapter 10 Iris marsh elephant
Chapter 11 Vegetarian insects
Chapter 12 Dwarfs
Chapter 13 Abnormal phenomena
No.14 Zhangjinyi gourmet
Chapter 15 The Marriage Custom of Golden Exchange
Chapter 16 Stop Vomiting Calliphora Laying Eggs
Chapter 17 Anti-emetic maggots of Calliphora
Chapter 18 parasites that feed on maggots
Chapter 19 Memories of childhood
Chapter 20 Insects and mushrooms
Chapter 21 An unforgettable lesson
Chapter 22 Industrial Chemistry
Appendix I Fireflies
Appendix II Pieris rapae
(The appendix was originally the content of chapter 1 1, but it can't be continued due to the actual situation, so it has to be the appendix of chapter 10. )
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Thoughts on insect stories
Entomology is a masterpiece handed down from ancient times by Fabres, an outstanding French entomologist and writer, and also an immortal world masterpiece. Ba Jin, a famous writer, said: "It combines the author's lifelong research achievements and life feelings in one furnace, observes the insect nature with human nature, and turns the insect world into a beautiful article for human beings to acquire knowledge, interest, beauty and thoughts."
The author recorded the achievements and experiences of insect research in his life in the form of prose. Guided by the humanistic spirit in natural science, he turned the insect world into a literary form for human beings to acquire knowledge, interest, beauty and thoughts, and wrote the topic of small insects into a masterpiece with hierarchical significance and all-round value. Such a work is really unprecedented in the world. No entomologist has such brilliant literary expression ability, and no writer has such profound entomological attainments. Without such a tenacious Fabres, our world would never have read about an insect.
There is a deeper reason to say that we are lucky. Fabres is tenacious because he has a certain spirit. If he gave up and lost his spirit, there would be no entomology in this world.
The detailed description of insects in The Tale of Insects makes people admire Fabres's superhuman observation, such as the embarrassing appearance of cicadas and ants begging for food: "The ants are standing on the threshold, with big bags of wheat beside them and their backs to the cicadas begging. The cicada stretched out its paw. Oh, I'm sorry, it's its hand. Wearing a18th century wide-brimmed hat with a guitar and piano under her arm, the skirt was blown to her stomach by the cold wind, which is the image of a cicada. " This description of begging is really vivid.
What is even more impressive is Fabres's description of the inverted posture of insects: for example, in a metal cage, mantis larvae stay in one place without changing their posture. It hooks the net with the tips of four hind paws, with its back facing down and motionless, and hangs high on the top of the cage. The four hanging points bear the weight of the whole body. The handstand posture is very difficult, but the handstand posture of flies is very different. Although the fly also hangs on the ceiling, it always takes time to relax, fly casually, walk in a normal posture, stick its stomach to the ground and spread its limbs in the sun. Fabres's description of insects is really amazing. I want to ask, that man has never seen a fly stand upside down, but who will pay attention? However, Fabres described thousands of insects in Insects, which is the success of Fabres.
However, Fabres's success was not achieved overnight. He faced two main problems in his life: prejudice and poverty. Farbers was diligent and enterprising, and changed from a descendant of a farmer to a middle school teacher. He has taught in middle schools for more than 20 years, observed and studied insects and plants in his spare time, and published excellent papers. Despite this, his dream of "going to a university lecture hall" has never been realized, and his desire to open an independent insect laboratory has never been supported. Educational and scientific authorities look down on his self-taught degree and don't understand his research direction. This indifference is in tune with some people's hypocrisy, vulgarity and jealousy, which is also a long-standing prejudice against Fabres. Fables was born in poverty, worked by himself, and finished primary and secondary schools. When I grow up, I only rely on the salary of a middle school teacher, and I have to live with a family of seven. I was poor in the first half of my life and barely had enough food and clothing in the second half. However, it was released without giving in to "prejudice" and "poverty". He is still diligent in self-study, constantly expanding his knowledge reserve, persistently observing experiments, constantly obtaining new achievements, and fighting back against "prejudice" again and again. He squeezed out pieces of money and bought altars, jars, boxes and cages. Day after day, month after month, year after year, he made great research materials, turning the "poverty" of teachers into the wealth of entomology.
He sacrificed almost everything to complete the insect. He didn't seize many opportunities to use utilitarianism in his life, and lived an imaginary "good life" but was content with poverty. He sat on the bench all his life, and even tied a family to his "bench".
Fabrice once asked a question: "Is it worth suffering just to survive?" He used his 92 years to answer the question of why he suffered hardships: facing prejudice directly, being accompanied by poverty, not afraid of sacrifice and offending forgetting, all for the word "truth". Pursuing and exploring the truth can be described as "seeking truth". Seeking truth is the spirit of Fabres.
In this entomology, we not only see the world of insects, but also appreciate Fabres's spirit of "pursuing truth" and "exploring truth".