Everyone has the memory of cicadas, and singing cicadas is an indelible memory of childhood. Cicada is also called cicada. At that time, I washed some gluten with flour and stuck cicadas behind my parents. Cicada is very alert, often urinates and flies away with a squeak. That's cicada excrement. We are often splashed under the tree. I lost track of time while playing. Even after a day in the forest, I don't remember being bitten by mosquitoes. At that time, the water in the forest stream was so clear. Cao Zhi described the teenager catching cicadas in Ode to the cicada: "There is a cunning child whose steps are in the garden. Without Zhu Zhicong, his posture is better than that of an ape. " Cao Zhi called these teenagers "clever sons" and their hands and feet were as fast as monkeys, so "holding a soft pole is a bit sticky, and I am entangled. If you want to fly over, you will know the length of life. " It seems that sticking cicadas with bamboo poles has a history of two thousand years. Knowing how to be the opponent of these "cunning children", they can only give in easily.
Cicada is a large plant that sucks insects. The cicada pupa spends the first two or three years of its life underground, maybe longer. In the meantime, it sucks liquid from the roots. Then one day, I broke out of the ground and found a tree to climb with my instinct to survive. When black cracks appear on the back of cicada pupa, the molting process begins. Molting is controlled by hormones. Cicadas are called cicada monkeys in Qingdao. The high note in the cicada family is a cicada called "double drummer". There are very large ring-shaped vocal organs on both sides of its body, and a disk that can be opened and closed inside and outside is in the middle of its body. The disk can be opened and closed quickly, which is why cicadas are trembling.
Cicada is just a big insect, and the insect is called "culture". Cicada culture has a long history. In ancient China, cicadas symbolized resurrection and immortality. The image of cicada's "larva" first appeared on Shang bronzes in 2000 BC. Cicada is a common theme in China traditional art. Carving jade and jade with famous beads means taking its beauty in form and meaning. The homonym of golden cicada is "money" and "making money", which means nobleness. Wearing golden cicadas can increase wealth for the coming year, and financial resources will also roll in. Since the Han Dynasty, there have been countless poems and songs about cicadas, among which Cao Zhi's Ode to Cicada has the most far-reaching influence. This paper first describes the beauty of cicada's innate quality, and then describes the poison of yellowbird, mantis, spider and grasshopper, which makes cicada have to escape all difficulties. Finally, it writes that cicada falls into the hands of cunning children and eventually becomes a tragic ending. The fate of this cicada is a true portrayal of Cao Zhi's life. From this article, we can see the author's deep injustice and infinite anxiety about his fate. According to historical records, after Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, he closely monitored his younger brothers. Although Cao Zhi and others were crowned king, there were only a few hundred soldiers under him, and they were all old, weak and sick. Cao Zhang, the female compatriot of Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, is a military commander. He once led troops to guard one side, and suddenly died after drinking, which was inexplicable. He was in his thirties when he died. Later generations suspected that it was Cao Pi, but there was no evidence. Cao Pi's authorities kept a close watch on these "kings", and they had to get permission to leave the station ten miles away. None of them wants to be a prince, but they can't be ordinary people: "all princes want clothes but can't get them." It can be seen to what extent their freedom was restricted, so that Cao Zhi lived to be in his forties before he died of depression.
In addition to Cao Zhi's Ode to Cicada, Yu Shinan, Luo and Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty all have masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, all of which are lyrical about cicadas. Sima Qian in Historical Records? Biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng: "Cicadas shed in filth and stay away from floating dust." Although the cicada was born in the muddy ground, it shed its shell and flew to the high tree, but it didn't touch the mud. Cicada has always been regarded as a "worm of supreme virtue" by scholars of past dynasties. Lu Yun's Ode to a Cold Cicada says that cicadas have five virtues: "If there is a flaw in the head, there is no text. Drink the dew with gas, and it will be clear; If you don't enjoy millet, it will be cheap; If you don't live in a nest, you will be frugal; If you should be punctual, you will believe it. Crowned, take its capacity, a gentleman can exercise it, serve the monarch, and stand up. Isn't it a worm of virtue? " These five virtues are: culture, purity, honesty, frugality and faithfulness. Cicada has such a virtue. When we listen to cicada, is it necessary for us to feel it?
Speaking of listening to cicadas, the word "listening" reminds people of "listening to the rain". Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been countless words about "listening to the sound of rain", among which Li Shangyin's famous poem "Listening to the sound of rain" is a very famous poem, which has attracted many poets to recite. In fact, how can the residual lotus listen to the rain compare with the green lotus, but the author's quip is about artistic conception, and the bleak autumn rain beats the residual lotus, which has a beautiful taste. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin's sister Lin likes the phrase "Stay in the lotus and listen to the rain", Li Shangyin listens to the autumn rain, and Lu You "listens to the spring rain all night in the small building, and sells apricot flowers in the open alley." Listen to the spring rain. In China's ancient poems, there are countless excellent works with rain as the content, such as: "Good rain knows the season, when spring comes", "Last night, the rain suddenly dispersed, and a deep sleep did not eliminate the residual wine", "But today, I don't know how many flowers I have folded because of the wind and rain" and "Jun asked that the return date has not yet arrived, and it rained in the autumn pool at night." Wait, these sentences have been passed down through the ages. The most influential song, Listening to Rain, is Song? Jie Jiang's Little Mermaid? Listen to the rain:
Listening to the rain song upstairs, the red candle is faint. In the prime of life, the boat is listening to the rain, and the wild geese in the river are called the west wind.
Now listening to the rain monk Lu, there are stars on his temples. Sorrow and joy are always ruthless until dawn.
Jie Jiang connected the three stages of life by listening to the rain. When I was a teenager, I didn't know the taste of sorrow. When people reach middle age, they wander around for a living. Seeing the low clouds on the river and the lonely geese wailing, I am actually very confused about my future. It goes without saying that after the chaos of his later years, the situation is bleak and his mood is bleak. No one can tell the joys and sorrows of his life, and he has a sense of helplessness in seeing through the world of mortals. Listen to the autumn rain in front of that stage and let it tick until dawn. Jie Jiang was a poet in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. He experienced the changes of dynasties, the pain of national destruction and family death, and the hatred of family death are all shown in his works. The title of Jie Jiang's ci is Listening to Rain, but it doesn't describe the sound of rain and the scene of listening to rain in detail. But by listening to the different feelings expressed in different places of the rain, to describe the changes of the world and feel the vicissitudes of life.
Master Ji Xianlin also wrote the essay Listening to the Rain, which should be the most famous masterpiece in modern times. There is a sentence in the master's article: "Listening to the rain is an elegant thing", and its subtext is that ordinary people are not qualified to listen to the rain; The master also defined himself as: "Probably an animal between elegance and vulgarity." So humble to call ourselves "between elegance and vulgarity", then we must be laymen, so we dare not listen to the rain. If we hold the moral, according to Jie Jiang's thinking, we can only change "listening to the rain" to "listening to cicadas", which has a unique charm:
Teenagers listen to cicada pagodas, and curtains cover them. In the prime of life, listening to cicadas, Yao Si was wandering in the countryside with his head down.
Now listen to cicadas and retire leisurely. Grandchildren are full of affection around their knees and work hard in front of the screen until dawn.
Our childhood listening to cicadas is to explore nature and look forward to the future; Listening to cicadas in the prime of life is the tempering of work, the responsibility of life and the suffering of homesickness; Listening to cicadas in old age is childlike innocence, a distant memory and the enjoyment of life; Upstairs and Downstairs is also the epitome of life changes and social development. This is an era of peace and prosperity. Aren't we lucky to live in such an era? Listening to rain and cicada are two different concepts, which cannot be compared. This is because listening to cicadas can't be more vulgar than listening to rain. Fortunately, Listening to the Rain and Knowing the cicada both show the life track through the "thing" of "rain and knowing the cicada", and both express their feelings and feelings.
As a delicious food, golden cicada has a history of thousands of years. There is a saying in Cao Zhi's Ode to the Cicadas, "Trust your body to the cook and burn it when it turns back to charcoal." Chefs call it "cook" and "burnt" barbecue, which means naughty children stick cicadas on them and then make them into delicious food. Nowadays, cicada pupa, whether fried or fried, is a delicious food that many people like. Adult cicadas seldom eat it. What's the difference between an adult cicada and a cicada pupa?
Today's cicadas are not as loud as they were decades ago, and now the number of cicadas has been greatly reduced. It is reported that the phenomenon of catching cicadas in restaurants in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and Anhui is very serious. Because cicada larvae can only break through the ground after living underground for about 5- 12 years, the number of cicadas has dropped sharply due to this crazy capture, and the sound of cicadas can no longer be heard in some areas in summer. The method and number of people who catch cicada pupa are enough to make cicada childless. Cicadas sing and sound sad. Why can't people live in harmony with nature when individuals try to eat the lovely and respectable cicada for a little cheap or to satisfy a temporary appetite? The bad behavior of catching golden cicadas crazily should be condemned. Don't let our descendants see and hear pictures and legendary cicadas.
Now people pay attention to environmental protection and live in harmony with nature, and cicadas should be protected, so that cicada culture can be carried forward and continued. In China, besides singing and dancing, listening to cicadas is also an indispensable melody for "laity" to appreciate the wonders of nature!