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Whenever there is a "thousand leaves in autumn", the streets and alleys of Baoding will sound a "deafening" sound, and the sound is not one or two, four or five, but dozens, hundreds of insects singing together, which is far beyond the human chorus. Although they are chaotic, they do not sound noisy, only the purity and depth of nature, listening to it can make people's impetuous hearts calm down, I really want to call a few times like this, into this wonderful chorus.
In my memory, whenever I heard this sound when I was a child, I rushed to the street to find this grasshopper vendor. The man with the pile of small octagonal cages had long been surrounded, and he heard someone ask openly, "Hey, how much is it, grasshopper?" ”
Grasshoppers
The grasshopper, also known as the short-winged songbird, is the first of the songbirds. As early as the end of primitive society, Dayu set a precedent for the worship of grasshoppers. "Jade Chapter (Worm Department)" said, "Yu Worm Also", that is, today's "Grasshopper", Dayu is named after Yu Worm (Grasshopper), so the grasshopper became the totem of the Dayu clan, and later, raising grasshoppers became people's preference, because it lays a lot of eggs, "Grasshopper Yanqing" has become an auspicious word for people to celebrate their descendants, and in Baoding "Winter Raising Autumn Worms" is a long-standing ancient folk custom. In the past, after the wheat harvest, grasshoppers began to appear in baoding's hutongs. Vendors mostly put grasshoppers in straw or wheat straw cages, the style of the cages is also very fancy, round, square, octagonal, triangular, far away you can hear the crisp sound of grasshoppers, attracting many people in the courtyard to come to buy. And when people in the courtyard buy grasshoppers, they rarely buy one, and most of them have to buy doubles. One is that the old Baoding people have the habit of pairing up in pairs, and the double is the auspicious number; the other is that the two can tease each other and shout more happily. Most of the grasshopper cages bought are hung on the eaves, lintels, grapevines or begonia trees in front of windows or yards. Since then, the sound of grasshoppers has become the most beautiful sound in the courtyard, and it can be called until Lidong. In Baoding, it is often those elderly old men who have such a preference, they often put the grasshoppers in the gourd, and in the winter they have to carry them in their arms, when they are fine, squint their eyes and listen to the grasshoppers "swaning and scurrying" call, which is called a pleasant.
It is precisely because of such a demand and such enjoyment, so although the times have undergone several ups and downs, the old trade of selling grasshoppers still exists in the ancient city of Baoding. Historical records record that ancient Yizhou (now Yi County, Baoding City) has a history of weaving cages to catch grasshoppers for hundreds of years. In the "Records of the Yanjing Dynasty", it is said that "after the May of the Beijing Division, there were Silk Grasshoppers (Grasshoppers) selling along the streets, each of which was only one or two texts", and most of these grasshoppers came from Baoding Yi County and Laishui Area. The grasshoppers there are a large, full-bearded and full-tailed child, with a positive color and good quality, generally black, green and blue. Second, the call is crisp and pleasant. To make their own grasshopper popular, they also improved its call by artificially dispensing medicine, an ancient traditional technique in feeding songbirds and an art when admiring them. The third is to be good at moving and loving to jump, the more lively and noisy the grasshoppers, the more popular they are. In the past, some people with money or status, in order to buy a high-quality grasshopper, would run to Yi County and Laiyuan to buy it at a high price. The grasshoppers of Yi County were once court tributes, kangxi, Qianlong and until Xuantong, many emperors liked this plaything. At that time, the grasshoppers were also divided into summer and autumn, and the summer grasshoppers were before the autumn and the autumn grasshoppers after the autumn. Winter greenhouse breeding called winter grasshoppers, it costs dozens of yuan a piece. The excellent value of the product is still very expensive, and the unit price of the winter grasshopper in 2005 has exceeded 1,000 yuan.
Now, Baoding Yixian Yishui Lake has become a famous "land of grasshoppers", "grasshoppers call, summer arrives", once this season people there began to carry baskets with grasshoppers on their backs, rushed to all parts of the country, north to the ice city of Harbin, Beijing, Tianjin, south to Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, you can see the figure of Yixian grasshoppers, hear their crisp cries. The grasshopper cage, which was bundled into a "hill", became a scene on the streets of the city, attracting the attention of adults and children. It is understood that at present, the sales of grasshoppers in Yixian County are all over the country, with a number of more than 3 million, which increases the income of farmers by more than 5 million yuan per year. In the area of Yishui Lake, there is a story of Sui and Tang Cheng biting the golden war horse and transforming into a grasshopper, so the grasshoppers in this area are huge and loud, and they are very famous in the country. From the perspective of ornamentation, according to the body color, the grasshoppers can be divided into five categories: green grasshoppers, black grasshoppers, mountain green grasshoppers, grass white grasshoppers, heterochromatic grasshoppers, these different types of grasshoppers are actually fire to what extent, searching on the Internet can scare people, and there are 26,400 related results. Therefore, there is a "grasshopper singing the whole country" here.
Today, grasshoppers have become an important source of income for locals in Yixian County, with annual sales in the millions. In addition, in the "land of grasshoppers" Angezhuang, the three months from early July to early October every year are also designated as the grasshopper festival, during which the grasshopper exchange meeting and the grasshopper series competition are held, and the grasshopper has become the theme ambassador of tourism there. Tourists can experience the fun of catching grasshoppers for themselves, and seeing grasshoppers, catching grasshoppers, buying grasshoppers, and evaluating grasshoppers has become a major part of local eco-tourism. People come here to interact with the grasshoppers, and what they pursue is such a love of living in harmony with nature.
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The life of grasshoppers is only five to seven months, maybe they want to live longer or live forever like humans, but nature gives them a short life span of a few months, life is a hundred years old is a white colt gap, compared to humans, their life is shorter. But they did not grieve because of this shortness, but sang for a short time without stopping, bringing joy to mankind, bringing beauty, bringing prayers and hopes for life.