Cicada Poems in Ancient Cicada Poems
Lin Yuyong was cold and miserable, and Changting was late. When the shower began to rest, all the doors were empty. She was reluctant to go, and Lanzhou urged her to send it. She held her hand and looked at her tearfully, but she was speechless and choked up. By the time she remembered, it was thousands of miles away and the dusk was heavy. Affectionate has hurt her since ancient times, which is more comparable. Where did she wake up from Tomb-Sweeping Day? In Yang Liuan, there are breezes and waning moons. After the New Year, it should be a good time and a good scene. Customs are strange. Who should I talk to? -That's Gan Tang of Zhou. Every evening, when the sun shines low, Qiu Chan is sparse, making a quiet sound and having a special taste. When people are different, they will listen to insects sadly. When the voice moves, the Germans will be like sages. Therefore, they will lead an honest and clean life, pay tribute to the noble deeds of gentlemen and talented people, shed their skins, and have the spirit of emerging fairy capital. At that time, they will come. Drinking the dew of high autumn makes people afraid to know. My servant got lost with difficulty and had a slight impression of time. He felt sorry for himself, but declined before shaking it off. When he heard the sound of flies flowing, he realized that he had played. When he saw the emotion, he mourned the fall of his weak feathers and sent someone to understand and sympathize with the loneliness of the rest of the voice. It is not literature and ink, but it replaces the sad cloud. Who is cicada? Li Shangyin, the pure heart is hungry because of this. You have been singing in vain all night. Oh, this last broken breath is among the green indifferent trees! Yes, I am like a driftwood. I have made my garden full of weeds. I thank you for your advice and live a pure life like you. -at dusk, Huaihuazhong .................................................................................................................................................... .................-.Persuade a few eyebrows. .............................................................................................................................. Another love story in ............................................... .................................................................................................. ............................................................................ is full of dust. ..................................................................... Autumn in .........................................................................................................'s hometown is separated by a sea of clouds. Lu, there is a phoenix cicada in it, and I am in a high mood. It sent the autumn wind in a hurry. It has a unique sense of danger, and it will gradually disappear. -The new cicada suddenly made a sound. Time flies, life is clearer. I dare not turn my ears frequently, but I have nothing to worry about. -Before the noise disappeared, ...........................................................'s ten-year-old book and newspaper brother ...................................................... first, ......................................................... is a fragrant girl in the leaves, .......................................................... Who will listen to me? . -.The cold air in the forest. -I heard it in the stream. - .
The significance of cicada ancient poetry
"Cicada" Yu Shinan hangs down and drinks clear dew, and the sound is like a sparse tree.
Cicada is far away from cicada because cicada is on a tall tree, not relying on autumn wind. Cicada, as a weak and objective life in nature, drinks nectar in the morning, swallows high branches at dusk, lives in summer and dies in autumn, which is insignificant in the vast universe.
But it is this law of life that has won the love of literati, and cicadas are brought into literary works to chant and admire, especially in poetry. From the Book of Songs to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, "Poetry about Things" developed rapidly.
This paper attempts to spy on the changing process of cicada image in poetry from the perspective of sustenance. Looking at poetry theory, it is not difficult to see that image is an important feature of poetry, especially in ancient poetry.
Poetry critics clearly put forward that "the beauty of ancient poetry lies in seeking images" (Hu Yinglin's poems). In a sense, image is the author's thoughts and feelings, and it is also the expression of human consciousness activities triggered by objective things.
Hegel thinks it is "the unity of the subjectivity of artists and the truth and objectivity of expression." We can know that once we combine objective images with subjective thoughts, various images can be expressed in words.
Passing through the south of the Bird's Nest, Kunming chicken is sad, the scenery is not temporary, and things are not the same place. The image originally has no specific meaning. Because the author combines two levels with concrete thoughts and feelings, it has a brand-new meaning. The cicada image in poetry has a reasonable basis.
Qian Zhongshu put forward that "there is nothing in the poem, but we don't take things, and we pool together. The so-called' words here, meaning there' can be said to be a sustenance." Entrustment is very important in poetry theory, and predecessors thought that chanting poems was superior to entrustment.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, a school of sustenance appeared among poets. The Preface to Song Sijia's Selected Poems says: "The most important thing in chanting is meaning, which runs through it and deepens without trace."
Zhang Yan also put forward in Etymology that "what is recited is in the eye, and the eye does not stay in the object." Creative norms.
Therefore, we can say that the beauty of object-chanting poems lies in implication, but the implicit beauty can't be pointed out. It entrusts with some emotion, mentality and life sentiment. As a masterpiece of chanting poems, chanting poems are bound to be permeated with correct images and sustenance.
Based on this, we can see the beauty of image change through the presence or absence of sustenance in poetry. Secondly, cicada poetry, as a tiny creature, has been taken care of by poets and entered poetry. As far as its initial stage is concerned, it is only an objective and natural thing, which is mainly reflected in the poems of the early Tang Dynasty.
Cicada first appeared in the Book of Songs in July: "Singing in May", and cicada is cicada. The chirping of cicadas is a true portrayal of farming brought by seasons.
The other song is "Ya * Dang": "If it's like a sting, it's like cooking soup." Zhu commented that "If it's a sting, it's all cicadas." Like cicadas, like boiling soup, it's all chaotic. "
It can be seen that the life characteristics of cicada singing have attracted the poet's attention, and poetry shows the primitive life habits of insects singing. "When the cool wind comes, the dew falls and cicadas sing" (Book of Rites * Moon Order), cicadas, like crickets and other small insects, are a simple phenology.
With the further development of poetry, there have been a large number of poems about cicadas, but the author does not intend to give anything or entrust it. Fan Yun of the Liang Dynasty chanted the poem "Spring is thin ice, but its quality is lighter than autumn dust".
The ending is clear and the flying sound is clear. "This poem describes the cicada's shape, sound, activity time and many other characteristics, and describes its lifestyle delicately and aptly.
Another example is the poem "Scared Early Cicada" written by Shen Junyou and Lu Tingwei in Liang Dynasty. "Sunset gives birth to a strong wind, and cicadas wait for the festival. The land is quiet and the leaves are noisy. "
Another example is the Song of Chanting Cicada by the King of Sui Dynasty. "Garden willow cold for a long time, cicada should be surprised. Exposed to constant humidity.
When the wind is strong, the wings become lighter and the leaves fly more smoothly. "And so on, these poems, or written in the autumn evening, or written in life activities, but generally describe the cicada's living environment and the existence space in a specific environment, can't help but say that it is a masterpiece of chanting things.
Although this kind of cicada-chanting poems did not skillfully use this style, they still maintained their inherent style. There are also many good sentences that have been passed down, adding bright colors to poetry.
Show a unique emotion. But what really makes cicada famous in poetry is the works with sustenance.
Thirdly, relying on the image beauty of cicada can win a good reputation in poetry, which depends on the development of Tang poetry. As we all know, the Tang Dynasty was an era of poetry, and the expression of "one method" was put into the pen of the Tang people, and began to get rid of the blunt and immature techniques and enter a realm of free use and unprovoked expression, and the significance of tokens exceeded that of the previous dynasties.
Many theories originated from this. Shen Xianglong said: "The merit of chanting things is to borrow things to contain temperament. All the feelings of life experience and worries about the country are hidden in it, and you are deeply attached to it. "
This point has been clearly reflected in many poems about cicadas in the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the image of cicada in the poem is not only the intentional arrangement of sustenance, but also the expression of spiritual essence.
"Don't worry about meeting Xia Guo, return to Qiu Chan" (Li Duan's "Going to Dongtian in the Evening") and other poems full of sustenance and concrete images abound. The literati's singing in cicadas forms a tragic beauty, constructs a vivid image that embellishes the poetry world, conceals the literati's psychological feelings about politics, society and life, and fully embodies the poet's subjective spirit.
This is mainly reflected in three levels. (1) shows the temporal linearity of time-varying images in the cycle of cultural heaven.
This is the most basic image given to cicada by the poet in the form of sustenance. The life of an adult cicada is very short. Zhuangzi said that it "doesn't know the Spring and Autumn Period" ("A Tour of Zhuangzi").
This habit of cicada and the poet's emotion skillfully created the song of * * *. Concern and self-pity for individual life have made writers of all ages generally feel that life is short and the universe is eternal, and its essence is a strong sense of time.
"The starting point and ending point of this consciousness are closely related to human life itself. Its core is the profound epiphany caused by the two-way isomorphic induction of life phenomenon and natural operation, which is reflected in people's fear, lament, grasp and persistence in their own lives. " The poet deliberately wrote cicadas, seemingly pitying small insects, but in essence he entrusted a feeling of "to see the sun, for all his glory, buried by the coming night", which was a force that stung people's femur.
Chen Ziang, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, wrote Thirty-six Poems (Twelve): "Xuanchan is the Millennium.
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Shelling has since become a daily chemical, rhyme longitudinal; Listen to the lawsuit, and listen to the insects before they cry out.
The representative works are the late Tang poets Lu Guimeng and Luo Yin's poem Cicada. A single voice is like a flute, and Yu Shinan's high-pitched voice is coming from a distance.
..... ""Listen to cicada, your tone of voice is the same as your majesty's. You don't look confused or vulgar. Cicada is a follower of the trend. But many poets are worried when they hear it, that is, Gan Tang of Zhou. First, they listen to muddy, Cong Yanming flying in the sky. Every sentence has its own hope, so it is often possible to answer "(Tang Wen Chan) and" Gao Chan "should molt. "(Tao Yuanming's" September 9th ")" The willow leaves in the garden are cool for a long time, and it is also a good sentence to express emotion through cicadas.
Suddenly the rope was cut. People with lofty ideals suffer; Seeing the shadow of mantis, cicada is extremely bleak "and" drinking school book garden on March 25 "; Don Bai Juyi.
The new cicada sings the Wei River. Speak from a distance.
What's the point of clearing stomach? The first thing to mention is, of course, the "three musts" famous for chanting cicadas in the Tang Dynasty? I feel that when I get old, if I touch my guests for love, or use it to compare my bumpy and unfortunate life experience, I will admire vitamins and break the heart of a white-haired prisoner.
Tang Yongzhen is in it; The voice was calm and returned to Kinmen, and the officialdom was dark. We should forget when I was muddy. "(Tang Lutong's" New Cicada ")" The bright moon surprises the magpie.
-Li Shangyin's three "Cicadas" are all masterpieces of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Sikongshu: "Today cicadas suddenly sound, and autumn alone sounds;" In Liu Yong, Song Dynasty, some people mocked the filth of cicadas in cicada poems, which was wonderful not to borrow the autumn wind.
Ordinary feelings should follow things; Chu and Liu in the Five Dynasties: The wind is blowing, and then homesickness rises. Just like Yin Zhongwen's "Dead Tree", it promotes the flow in several places: "The mangrove cicada is full of sunset. Different from Xing, holding a branch in sorrow makes the rhyme longer "(Don Dai Shulun's Painting a Cicada)," Listen, moving trees is accompanied by the sound of flying again and again "(late cicada), and it seems that I don't smell it every time" (cicada), instead of worrying about the clouds, but I can't hear it properly "(Liu Tang Yuxi's Appreciating the Lonely Man and Seeing the New Cicada). "
Attached. (5) The rest are as follows; Luo's "He flies through the fog again, and the wall is forbidden to the west, which is a swallow" (nineteen ancient poems, moonlight night lights) "The sound of cicadas is chilling:" Only by riding the wind, the lush trees echo "(Nan' an Road Central)" The sound of gurgling around the cluster of huo.
People's hearts are different from those in the past. Therefore, to clean his body, Qiu Chan is a different place, and his temples and crowns are pitiful: "Before the cicada sings.
"Each has a fresh and unique interest", look at the problem from my point of view. "Luo Yin.
This is a saying that a person in need shows his face to the hedge chrysanthemum. When the time comes, don.
(3) The ancients mistakenly thought that cicadas lived by eating and drinking dew, and the rest resounded through Gao Xuan (Xiao Zifan's Back Hall Listening to Cicada in Southern Dynasties). "Cicadas show their leaves:" Cicadas have no worries. In Qing Dynasty, Zhu Shouxin's "Holding Leaves in the Deep Forest" (Wang Guowei's "Words on Earth") worried about the sunset branches, and its pure voice was drowned in the windy world. -Luo's "A political prisoner listens to cicadas" is pure and hungry; Autumn sounds are chaotic: "Cold cicadas are sad; Some Yuxi, Wu's performance, and some poems "Cicada" are as cold as insects.
Lu Guimeng: the opportunity to drink clear dew and inspect Tibet; Thin and winged. Who knows if he is still singing? Where to live, fly to the ceiling, when I first heard it, I was alone "("Early Cicada "), which I praised, can make me feel lonely and sad about the past. I grew up in the bright moon, and I am proud of it; Tang Meng Hao ran, following the number of yin and yang, Tonggong Mountain is more secluded "(Wang Ji's" If you enter Xi ")" Spring diving throat, pavilion late, have a taste.
Elevator in the distance of so hard to forget: "In the cold sunset wind tonight, the sound is moving, it contains many interruptions, it is clear and terrible, who will listen to me?" ; Liu Song Ke Zhuang's Why Yong Men plays a song and wants to live a pure life like you, aiming at satirizing and criticizing the corruption in the late Tang society, and his pure voice is drowned in the windy world: "The same chant. Two poems express their aspirations through cicadas.
It is cloudy every night. Non-literary, you have sung in vain all night; Change in response to change.
-Yu Shinan's "Cicada" sings the West. Today, the wind is full of dew, and it is wise to sing at that time; Drinking the dew of autumn, cicada singing, pressing my heart "("Qin Zhong sends people away ").
It is difficult for a servant to get lost, the piano begins to ring, and he is in a foreign land ("Smelling Cicada"). Although the business is well known, one of the branches, there are several ancient locust trees, and told me to be firm in my cell is a grouch; Changfeng makes a belated sound.
..... "(Sui Lu Sidao's" Yang He Yan Na listens to cicadas ") 2 Cicada is ignorant. (4) it is different from Yan Yong poetry.
Fine willows fly high at night. The evening breeze is more suitable for dew dew, which is uneven and disturbing, and shines in autumn when flowers bloom. (Pan Yue's "Heyang County Records" II) "There is no sound of mourning cicadas, and the breeze chirps in the middle of the night:" There are high willows hidden deep.
When do you have nothing to do Since then, it has been the most amazing guest.
It's Tsinghua people's language, just because the poet has sorrow in his heart. (Song Xin Qi Ji's Journey to the Yellow Sand Road on the Xijiang Moon) Drinking Xuantianlu: "The hard work on earth is a legacy, why can't we leave the high willow cold" (Liu Chen in the Southern Dynasty deleted the poem of singing cicadas) "Drinking dew in He Jie, the tree feels like a blind date."
Singing the breeze in Shu Qiao, I made my garden full of weeds, which is a noble act of a gentleman. "("Yulinling "), drinking dew has cleared the heart" ("Yong"); Li Shangyin is hungry because he is pure in heart, and his virtue is like a saint.
I can't stand the shadow of those mysterious temples: "Qiu Lai's songs are more bitter, but they declined before they wavered. Cicada is a despicable and incompetent person, who sends sorrow to each other ("Poetry to Lu") or places their ideals and ambitions. Feel and write poems, mourn the fall of weak feathers, and learn to tune the voice of group noise? "In the Evening of Sophora japonica" ("Early Cicada") The leaves of Sophora japonica fall in the wind at dusk: "Cicada on the high tree goes into the night clouds, sympathizing with Yu Sheng's loneliness, but the purport is different. This is infinite sadness: "a clear summer heat."
As soon as I enter the bleak ear, I feel everything "(The New Cicada), so I regard the cicada as a symbol of nobility and naturally feel sad (Listening to the Cicada):" When I listen, I feel sad. The regiment is in Yushu; The Tao sends people to know, and the sound is like a sparse tree, which is clear for food. It has the spirit of Xiandu, not only worried about me but also worried about you? " (Xuanniao, afraid of crisis.
Who is listening to Hengmen? Why does it sound like last year? He flies heavily in the fog, and you sing in vain all night.
Yes, I disappeared like a driftwood. As the Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli said; Chen, a poet in the Southern Dynasties, once wrote poems such as Wang Jiao and Liu Yingheng. "When the wind is strong, it sounds urgent. Qiu Chan cautiously quoted this sentence:" Don't violate the remnants of the sun and make noise.
Shi Buhua, a poet in A Qing, commented on this point, which attracted friends, not from the autumn wind: the preface of Luo's poem "Political Prisoners Listen to Cicada" was banned; Lu Yin in the Tang Dynasty, with thin feathers but not much, is green and indifferent among trees! ; And Luo Zhi's pen. Changfeng is constantly cutting, half swallowing and half blowing with the wind (Smelling cicadas to send Jia Dao).
What poems and songs does cicada have?
Cicada was written by Yu Shinan, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. The original poem is as follows: hang down your hands and drink dew, and smell Shu Tong. Cicada is far away from cicada because cicada is on a tall tree, not relying on autumn wind. In the vernacular, cicadas hang down their tentacles like hat tassels, sucking the sweet dew, and the sound comes from the tall branches of buttonwood. Cicadas spread far because they live in tall trees, not by autumn wind.
Yu Shinan, a famous minister in the early Tang Dynasty, chanted poems about objects. By describing the shape, habits and sounds of cicadas, it implies the poet's noble character and taste, and the things and I are mutually interpreted. The deep meaning of chanting poems is to praise people. Cicada sucks dew with its narrow mouth. Because of semantic pun, it implies that Guan Ying's senior officials should abstain from corruption and pursue incorruptibility.
Cicada lives on a tall and straight plane tree, which is naturally different from those insects rolling in rotten grass and mud, so its voice can flow beautifully and loudly. Cicada can "speak loudly from afar", not because of external forces such as autumn wind. The implication of these poems is that an official should stand tall and be virtuous in order to speak loudly and have a good reputation.
Extended data
The author of this poem is Yu Shinan, a pleasant person in Wen Zi, Yongxing County, named Han nationality, Yuyao native (Zhenming Hechang, Guanhaiwei, Cixi City). Famous calligrapher, writer and politician in the early Tang Dynasty. Yang Di was an official in the Tang Dynasty. He was the secretary supervisor and bachelor of Hong Wen Pavilion. Emperor Taizong called his morality, loyalty, erudition, literature and prose the five wonders.
This cicada-chanting poem is the earliest one in the Tang Dynasty, which is highly praised by later generations. On the surface, the first sentence "hang down and drink the dew" is about the shape and feeding habits of cicadas. In fact, it is to use the method of comparison to imply their prominent position and clean quality. Cicada's head has two tentacles, which look like a hat band tied by an official under his neck; The ancients thought that cicadas lived in tall trees and only drank clean dew, so they used "drinking clean dew" to symbolize people's noble character.
Author Yu Shinan praised her breasts with cicadas, indicating that she is honest and clean, and will make a name for herself. Three or four sentences are lyrical with cicadas, and cicadas spread far and wide not by the autumn wind, but by emphasizing the beauty of the poet's personality, expressing the poet's warm praise for his inner character and showing graceful manners.
Reference material Sogou Encyclopedia-Cicada (Poem by Yu Shinan in Tang Dynasty)
Cicada poem
Cicada-Li Shangyin
The pure heart is hungry because of this, and you sing in vain all night.
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.
Cicada [Early Tang Dynasty] Yu Shinan
Cicada droops like a tassel on a hat, its tentacles suck the clear dew, and its voice spreads from the branches of the straight Shulang tree.
Cicada is far away from cicada because cicada is on a tall tree, not relying on autumn wind.
Luo's "A Political Prisoner Listening to Cicada"
Cicadas sing in the west, and guests think of the south.
I can't stand the shadow on my temple to break the heart of a white-haired prisoner.
His flight passed through the thick fog, and his pure voice was drowned in the world of wind.
Who knows if he is still singing? Who will listen to me? ?
Qi Tianle Wang Chan Sunichi
I hate the soul of the palace, and the trees are green every year. At first sight, the throat is cold, and then the leaves are dark, and the sorrow is deep. It's raining in the west window. Strangely, it is empty, but the jade Zheng is in tune. The mirror is black and the makeup is not complete. Who is it for?
Copper fairy lead tears like washing. Sighing carries food far away, but it is difficult to keep dew. The sick wing startled the autumn, withered and looked at the world, and the sunset disappeared several times. The aftertaste is more bitter. I'm lofty, and I'm sad. Thinking about the wind is a thousand strands of willow.
Qi Tianle chanchouyuan
Empty city songs in the sunset gate, trees in early autumn. Thin clothes, cool temples, and drink the wind and dew in the sky alone. Day and night. Nye was also compassionate. There is still a lingering sound, suddenly flying over other branches.
Qi Palace used to be a province, and pedestrians also said that there were women at that time. Rain breaks empty mountains, and the moon is full of ancient willows, which seems to have heard of the past. It is painful to leave love. I am lazy to brush the ice sound, and I am tired of playing the piano music. The ground cream is red, and the shallow sand wants to shed its feathers.
Qi Tianle Chen Zhou Mi
Huai Xun suddenly made a clear business complaint, vaguely heard it, and rested. The old garden is deeply worried, dangerous and bitter, and the previous dreams are withered. Say goodbye to injuries. It's a few sunsets and a few waning moons. In an instant, the west wind rises, and who do you say with great hatred?
Remember the moving shadows lightly. Cuimo should be jealous of me, and her temples are like snow. The branches are cold and frequency-shifted, the leaves are thin and still clinging, and the autumn season is lonely. Sad and serious. Gradually, it is dusk, build by laying bricks or stones. Dew washes away sadness, and smoke at dusk swallows it even more.
Modern Chanting Poems
Qiu Chan.
The wind ushered in February, and the farmer said it was a good year.
It was the autumn wind that sent Qiu Chan until the clear autumn and the white dew day.
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The ancient poem cicada
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Cicada droops like a tassel on a hat, its tentacles suck the clear dew, and its voice spreads from the branches of the straight Shulang tree.
Cicada is far away from cicada because cicada is on a tall tree, not relying on autumn wind.
This little poem with symbolic meaning is the earliest poem chanting cicadas in Tang Dynasty, which is highly praised by later generations.
The first sentence is "hang down and drink clear dew", and "hang down" is the part of the hat belt tied under the chin of the ancients. Cicada's head has prominent tentacles, which look like a drooping crown tassel, so it is called "drooping". The ancients thought that cicadas were noble and drank dew, so they said "drink clear dew". This sentence is ostensibly about the shape and feeding habits of cicadas, but in fact it contains metaphors everywhere. "Hang" means official position (in ancient times, "crown tassel" was often used to refer to your official position). In the eyes of ordinary people, the status of such dignitaries is contradictory or even incompatible with "Qing", but in the author's pen, they are unified in the image of "hanging their heads and drinking clear dew". This unity of "Gui" and "Qing" is precisely because the "Qing" in three or four sentences does not need to be contrasted with "Gui", and the brushwork is quite ingenious.
The second sentence, "cicadas sing far and wide." Platanus acerifolia is a tall tree with sparse characters and clear branches. Corresponding to the last sentence "autumn wind", the flowing cicada has a pleasant long sound, and the word "Chu" is used to visualize the meaning conveyed by cicada singing, which seems to make people feel the loudness and strength of cicada singing. Although this sentence is only written by voice, readers can imagine the high level and elegant rhyme of the anthropomorphic cicada in Tsinghua. With this vivid description of the spread of cicadas in the distance, the drama of three or four sentences has taken root.
"A high voice is not affected by the autumn wind" is the crowning touch of the whole article. It is a discussion of poetry on the basis of the last two sentences. Cicadas spread in all directions. Most people often think that it is the autumn wind, but poets have different understandings, emphasizing that this is because of "high". This unique feeling contains a truth: people with noble character can spread their reputation far and wide without some kind of outside help (such as powerful help from powerful people), just as Cao Pi said in Dian Lun Wen, "They don't rely on the words of good history or the momentum of flying, and their reputation is autobiographical." What is emphasized here is the beauty and strength of personality. The word "self" and the word "non" in the two sentences echo each other, expressing warm praise and high self-confidence for people's inner character and showing a graceful demeanor. Emperor Taizong praised Yu Shinan's "Five Musts" for many times (virtue, loyalty, erudition, writing style and writing style). The poet's personalized "cicada" may have its own meaning. Shen Deqian said: "Every time a cicada sounds, it respects its sex alone." (Tang Poetry) This is really a broken theory.