Summer is the season of insects singing, although some insects have a short life, "summer insects can not be said to ice", but it is enough to embellish summer and enrich the interest of the world.
The sound of cicadas can especially touch the poet's heart, "The spring sneaks in the throat, and the piano chirps back." The long wind shears continuously, still among the branches", this is a mood. Lying under the green shade of the South Mountain, looking at the ancient locust of the shady pavilion, the sound of cicadas is making noise, hitting your ear drums like a tidal wave, which is another mood.
Catching cicadas was a good thing for children in the past, about two or three playmates in the afternoon, carrying a long bamboo pole with sticky gluten on their shoulders, and catching cicadas with the sound of cicadas in the hot sun. Cicadas are very alert, as soon as the wind blows, they immediately stop chirping, and once they find it bad, they immediately run away. What determines the success or failure of the cicada hunt is the short tens of seconds after the cicada stops singing, and it is necessary to hold its breath, not to disturb the alert cicada, and then quickly stick to its wings in order to succeed. In "Zhuangzi Dasheng", the story of the hunchbacked old man sticking to the cicada in the Chu kingdom shows that the concentration, emptiness, and emptiness are probably also felt here.
In addition to cicadas, there are dragonflies. In the middle of summer, as long as the weather is sweltering and a little rainy, countless dragonflies will fly in the pond, under the trees, and in the courtyard. The pleasure of catching dragonflies is no less than catching cicadas, holding a broken fan, waving back and forth with the dragonflies, one by one, and in a short while a large number of dragonflies are thrown. Dragonflies are the favorite of domestic chickens, and the children string up the caught dragonflies with thread to make the chickens run around the yard.
There are also scarab beetles, which some places call "Golden Mother". The scarab beetle is the size of a broad bean, the back is armor-like, copper-green, shiny, and the elytra have a maroon reflection when flying, which is very beautiful. Scarab beetles are very easy to catch, and the captured scarab beetles tie their necks with fine cotton thread, grasp the thread head with one hand, pinch the back of the scarabs with the other, and recite the ancient nursery rhymes in their mouths: "Golden mother, silver mother, if you don't fly is a stinky mother..." As soon as the hand is loose, the scarab beetle flies up along the line in his hand, adding a little fun to the children.
"Light Luo small fan fluttering fireflies", summer nights, breezes, frogs chirping, it is the time when the fireflies are the most. No tools or techniques are required to catch fireflies, which fly slowly and are particularly easy to distinguish in the dark, and can be caught by hand when flying close. After catching too much, I found a wide-mouth glass bottle to put in, returned home, took it to the mosquito net before going to bed, and after a while, I fell asleep, and the green light was still flashing in my sleep.
Nowadays, this evocative summer worm interest and situation is difficult to see again, and it seems that it can only be found in film and television dramas.
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