Text/Oriental Voice
My hometown is in rural Hebei, and after the rain and rain in the Lixia Valley, I have been accustomed to hearing the familiar "Croak!" in the farmland since I was a child. Wail! Whoops!", "Wow! Wow! Wow!" The crisp sound of frogs in the ears. Go to school to the sound of frogs, sleep peacefully in the sound of frogs, grow up in the sound of frogs. So I've always loved frog sounds. It is believed that the frog sound is the most beautiful music, that is, the sound of delicateness, that is, "Yang Spring White Snow".
Listen, this outside world is an ocean of frog sounds, you listen, this frog sings, like the howling of the wind, like the beat of drums, like strings, like thousands of snare drums in unison, deafening. Like the sonatas on countless strings, high and low, yin and yang dull. You listen to the frogs echoing each other, which makes people think and think. The beautiful singing voice is loud and rhythmic, and the small chorus is accompanied by the large chorus, which is unique. Among them were the old singers who were overwhelmed, and from the ravines, from the pond paths to the rivers on the side of the mountains, the dull low frog sounds of a little childish came from the flowers and grasses. There are young frogs who bravely join the "big choir" just after taking off their tadpole tails, and a loud singing protagonist has been added to the choir of the frogs. The beautiful scenery in front of you can't help but remind people of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Jiu's "Xijiang Moon": "The bright moon is shocking and the cranes are shocked, and the breeze is singing cicadas in the middle of the night." The rice blossom fragrance said that in the harvest year, listen to the sound of frogs." However, in this green mountain, the sunset, the frogs' singers under the moonlight of the sunset have no accompaniment, and the original sound rhyme is pleasant, like a band accompaniment "chorus".
This gentle and melodious frog sound of different kinds of frogs sings is completely different. black-spotted frogs with larger black stripes, tiger-striped frogs; Usually haunted by rice fields, it makes a "quack" sound, low and soothing, like a cello in a band; Petite vegetable frogs and tree frogs moving in vegetable fields and bushes sing compact and pleasant songs, like flutes in an orchestra.
In late spring and summer, when the weather turns hot, the country night remembers the sound of insects one after another, and the sound of frogs full of ears, and the excitement of the silent night and wilderness is as enthusiastic and vibrant as a band.
At this time, walking in the vast rice fields of the countryside, you can see frogs with bright eyes bulging everywhere, crouching in the grass or cracks on the side of the road, once they hear people's movements, they will jump up leisurely, draw a beautiful arc in the air, and then, with a "bang", dive into the water, leaving only a circle of slightly rippling scattered ripples on the calm water.
There are few idlers in the countryside in April, and the chirping of frogs, some croaking, some croaking, some croaking, and some croaking. They are natural singers, in a long hibernation, retreat for months, restart their singing voice, and naturally use all their strength to hang their voices.
In the spring and summer fields in the countryside, it is never lonely because of the sound of frogs. Open the window and listen quietly, and with the clear moonlight outside the window, you can listen to the purest heavenly music in the world all night. The chorus of frogs is always so pure and affectionate. It is a beautiful picture, filled with harvested rice paddies, listening to the beautiful frog song. For this wonderful frog sound, the ancients also chanted poetry. Song Dynasty Zhao Shixiu Fu poem: "During the Huangmei season, the family rains, and the grass ancestral pond is full of frogs." Lu You's "Autumn Thought" writes: "When the water is full, watch the herons, and the grass is full of frogs everywhere."
Later, I went to college from the countryside and was assigned to the big city, although there were flat and wide streets, flashing neon lights, rows of shops, and crowds, but in the evening, it was sad that I could not enjoy the sound of frogs, and the ears were full of disturbing city noise and boiling human voices. I could no longer hear the crisp and pleasant sound of the frog, which became an eternal memory in my mind.
Nowadays, the pace of rural and urban development is so fast, and soon after, high-rise buildings have risen around us, small ponds near us have been filled with soil, small potholes and pools have been bulldozed, and the road surface has been paved with cement and hardened. The city is indeed getting more and more beautiful, but the frogs' habitats have all been "occupied", and they have to make a big "retreat" from this hot land.
Despite the expansion of modern urban and rural territory, it is difficult for frogs to find a clean and peaceful place to live. But the happy home of frogs still belongs to vast fields, ponds and river banks, as long as there are ponds, river banks, grasslands, green mountains and green water beautiful places, there are beautiful frog figures, frog sounds are still always so beautiful, shelter in the summoner They bravely move forward, generation after generation multiplication...
20232-06-27 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu
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