Life is long, endless and short, so short that it seems to take the college entrance examination, graduate, get married and be middle-aged and old. ....
In nature, there is a creature called Mayfly, which undergoes three years of metamorphosis from egg to larva in water and finally becomes an adult.
Adults do not eat, surface, spread their wings in the sky, find a good mate, complete the reproductive task, and die one after another within one day. Female Mayflies lay eggs in the water before their death, and completed the continuation of their own lives before the end of their lives.
It is only a short day for Mayflies to die from water. So there is a saying that "they can live for one day, but they can live for a lifetime".
Compared with ephemera, human life is lucky.
27mm, with a pair of long tail whiskers at the end of abdomen.
Larvae is aquatic, adults don't eat it, and their life span is very short, the shortest is only one day. However, in its short life, it has bloomed the most brilliant brilliance.
Living habits and growth and reproduction;
Mayflies go through four stages in their life: eggs, larvae, sub-adults and adults. In spring and summer, from afternoon to evening, there are often groups of male insects for "marriage flight", and the female insects fly into the group alone to pair with the male insects. Female insects lay eggs in the water, and the eggs are small and sticky, which can attach to the debris at the bottom of the water.
Young fish are aquatic and live in freshwater lakes or streams. The larval stage is generally 1- 13 years old, and it is generally peeled 20-24 times, up to 40 times. Larvae feed on higher plants and algae, and a few species prey on aquatic arthropods.
When fully developed, young fish generally float to the surface or climb to rocks or plant stems near the water. After sunset, it will become a subadult. At this time, the worm is similar to the adult, but its body color is darker than that of the adult, so it is inactive and cannot mate.
The sub-adult stage lasts for a short time, and it usually takes a few minutes to a day to peel off and become an adult. Mayflies shed their skin as adults. Adults don't eat, their life span is extremely short, the shortest is only one day, most of them can only live for a few hours, and a few can only live for seven days at most, so they are called Mayflies. Mayfly adults are responsible for mating in a short life (one day). They must find a mate, mate and lay eggs, and then die peacefully after completing their life mission.
The short life of the ephemera.
Adults use the scale of their lives to measure the length of time, their lives, and a human day. In this short life, in order to love life, but also to love death, more fundamentally: everything is for reproduction, in order to continue.
The origin of life
In literary works
Sighing the ephemera's short life and its surprise. Man cannot live alone without all living things. Inspired by this creature, Ephemera has created many high-quality works about life and its meaning at all times and all over the world.
To some extent, this is also the sublimation of the life of Ephemera. Although life is short, it enriches the content. It is always said that the meaning of life lies not in its length, but in its width. Many legendary great deeds in history are similar to "Ephemera" in essence.
The Derivation of Life 1, the following is selected from The Fly-A Symbol of Life-Franklin, an American politician, scientist and important essayist, translated anonymously.
"The old Mayfly said: I saw several generations of Mayflies born, grew up and finally died? In my life, how many times have I participated in political struggles for the welfare of my compatriots in this jungle? However, without moral cooperation, politics can't be understood by law alone, so how many philosophical problems have I studied in order to enhance the wisdom of all my fellow ephemera! Our Mayfly family must always be vigilant, otherwise, if we are not careful, we will become like other ethnic Mayflies with a long history in other trees, and in an instant, we will enter a state of perdition. "
"Friends often come to comfort me, saying that I will enjoy all the splendor in my lifetime, and the name behind me will be passed down through the ages. But the ephemera is dead, what's the use of the name behind it? "
"I have worked hard to pursue life and have no fun at all. Just thinking about everything in this world, regardless of people and insects, if you can live a long life and benefit the public, it is enough to comfort yourself; Listen to the conversation between Miss Mayfly and Mrs Mayfly again, or occasionally get a lovely white lady to smile, or sing a song, then I will be satisfied in my later years. "
Turn yourself into a mayfly and tell your own story. As we all know, Franklin is an all-powerful figure in American politics.
The old Mayfly said that he had participated in political struggles, studied philosophical issues and worked hard all his life, which was no fun. But there is a clue that can't be ignored, that is, the old Mayfly has struggled all his life, and he is most concerned about whether the government is wise and fair, and whether it is lenient to the people. Without the cooperation of law, politics cannot be clear.
In order to increase the wisdom of all my fellow Mayflies, the old Mayflies study philosophy for the benefit of the public. Perhaps this is the ideal that Franklin fought for all his life. You have to admire this old mayfly!
People's life, how to act, how to be a person, everything is a choice, and each individual is a fresh life. How short life is, only by living wonderfully and fully can we not waste it. How to spend one's life depends on one's choice, and each individual's life is different.
Everyone who has taught us how to spend our lives, how to fall in love, how to choose, etc. Before accepting advice, can we think about what the life of the person who gives us advice is like?
After all, this is just one of the eternal pain points.
The second derivative of life, excerpted from "Red Cliff Fu", Su Shi, Northern Song Dynasty, "one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".
"Perilla was very sad. She sat in a dangerous place and asked the guest," What is it? Guest: The moon stars are rare, and blackbirds fly south. Isn't this a poem by Cao Mengde? It's a drop in the ocean to send a mayfly into the earth. Mourn a moment in my life and admire the infinity of the Yangtze River. Fly with the flying fairy, hold the bright moon, and grow up. Knowing that you can't get it suddenly will make you hate Taiwan. "
As ephemera (life is short) is in the world, as small as a drop in the ocean. Sighing that a person's life is only a short moment, I can't help admiring the endless Yangtze River.
Su Dongpo regrets the feeling that people are at a loss in the vast universe, which can also be used to explore his open-minded and indifferent thinking attitude.
Poetry in middle school textbooks used to be only clear about its meaning, and it took a lot to understand it. Objectively speaking, this is also the fate of most people. Only a few people can get rid of thinking and bondage as soon as possible.
Realizing the vastness of the universe, the vastness of heaven and earth, and how small we are, we must know how to respect those who deserve our respect, nature, life, market and so on.
However, we should not underestimate ourselves. Although a person is small, he can be great, depending on how he chooses, what values he has, how he views the world, how he practices it and so on. This is another question that different people have different opinions.
Compared with the ephemera who live to be 100 years old, I am just a ephemera before the creator.
Not long ago, after watching "The Earth: A Magical Day" produced by BBC Earth Pictures, Jackie Chan described with deep affection: "Mayflies will sleep at the bottom of the river for three years, and it will take a long time to hatch. At sunset, five million Mayflies hatched together on that river. Once hatched, a grand courtship dance begins immediately, mating, spawning, death, and life is only one day.
There is an old saying in China called' You can fly for a day', which is a classic traditional oriental philosophy. We think life is short. I suddenly feel that I am not watching a documentary, but listening to the wisdom of ancient sages in China.
Have you ever imagined:
In the morning, a Mayfly comes out gracefully, dances on the water and searches in the air. Although life is only one day, it also has natural enemies-fish in the water and birds in the air, so nature has its own arrangements-let it win by numbers, and the ephemera all over the sky dance with their bright spots. All the days are beautiful. When night falls, the Mayfly has finished the life of meeting, mating and spawning, and entrusted the future to the next generation before the end of life.
Give time life, not life time; Life, the best time, is so short, which may be the best inspiration for us. Cherish what is worth cherishing, and you will find that fleeting is really fleeting.
Every sunny night, I look up at countless galaxies and countless shining stars in the night sky, and I can't help feeling how many light years have passed before these shining points can be seen by us.
According to the present cosmic history of about 654.38+0.5 billion years, isn't the human history of about 6 million years (according to the present evolution theory) a drop in the ocean?
After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, there have been human beings with wonderful thinking. In this short period of 30,000 days, we should cherish life, cherish our unique self, give up our useless self, feel the colorful beating of life, and experience the bitter and happy life that other creatures can't match.
It turns out that everything is so worthwhile.
If you live for a day, you may fly for a lifetime. Isn't this the inspiration from all living things?