"Knowing the monkeys" are quietly listed, and they can be seen in some convenience markets in the urban area. Around July of each year, it is the time for the "Monkey of Knowledge" to be listed intensively, and the reporter visited a number of convenience markets to learn that the price of the Monkey of Knowing this year is about 0.8 yuan per monkey, and the price has not changed much compared with last year. (Texas Evening News, July 5)
Knowing the monkey, the scientific name of the golden cicada, the idiom golden cicada shelling, thin as cicada wings, praying mantis cicada catching yellow finches in the back, etc., it comes from it. "The bright moon does not frighten the magpies, and the breeze chirps cicadas in the middle of the night" is a poem that makes people suddenly have a beautiful association. The most classic sounds from nature in summer are the sound of frogs and cicadas. It can be said that the sound of cicadas is a symbol of summer and a good memory of summer life for many people.
Now, however, the fate of cicadas seems to have come to an important inflection point. Because some people are excellent at this bite, and there is demand for sales, there are delicious buyers, there are sellers who are crazy to catch cicadas in order to sell high prices. In my small town, in the summer night, I will always find someone in the roadside green space flashlight to find the monkey, sometimes during the day can also see, they carefully search for every inch of the tree under the tree, not sparing a monkey. In the market, in the summer, there are many vendors selling monkeys, many restaurants have begun to sell fried monkeys, and supermarket freezers are always indispensable to their figures... Maybe because there are too many people eating and too many people are arrested, it is now difficult to hear the cries of zhizhi from the green space on the street.
Media have reported that the prevalence of "eating monkeys" in a certain place has become a symbol of face. There are also citizens who buy hundreds of pounds and store them in the refrigerator, enough to eat for a year. The wild monkeys in the area were almost extinct, and the vendors organized a chartered car to go to the countryside to catch the monkeys. It is understood that the artificial breeding technology of the monkey is not mature, and the monkeys that people eat are basically from the wild, and this way of eating can already eat the monkeys in a place to extinction! Isn't that terrible and sad? Over the years, because of people's ignorance and vanity and other reasons have been eaten into endangered animals, there are pangolins, grass finches, etc., and once there is a large number of foreign animals, the locals do not eat the news, there will always be people kindly suggest that these animals be transported to the country to sell, the best of both worlds, and even laugh that the group to eat, eat until it is extinct. In fact, the reason why some species in the country have gone from being generally endangered in just a few years is not precisely because some people have turned jokes into reality?
We have eaten pangolins and grass finches into endangered animals, and some places have eaten the monkeys as "rare" a few years ago, if this situation continues to spread, the local rarity will become all rare, then it is not surprising that the next to be eaten as "endangered" is the monkey. Do we have to regret it after we can no longer hear the cicadas? Could it be that "on the banyan tree by the pond, knowing that there is a cry of summer..." can only be reduced to a lyric for people to remember, and we have to find the figure of the monkey and the summer beauty in our imagination and memory, and realize that it is precisely because we can't control our mouths that so many species have been eaten to extinction?
If there really is such a day, it is really terrible and shameful.
(Yanzhao Metropolis Daily Qiu Lei)