"If the husband has a hair on his head, then his text is also." If you drink dew with qi, then it is clean; if you do not enjoy it, then it is incorruptible. If it does not dwell in the nest, it will be thrifty; if it should be kept, it will be faithful; it will be crowned and its tolerance will be taken. A gentleman can do his own thing, he can do things, he can stand up, is he not a worm of supreme virtue? ”
--Jin Luyun, "Cold Cicada Endowment"
The animals praised by Lu Ji's fugue are well known to everyone, that is, cicadas, commonly known as zhi.
Cicada is a general term for insects of the family Cicadaaceae, the ancients called it "tick" and "mite", "Poetry Sutra • Feng Feng • July": "May singing", lunar calendar May cicadas began to chirp. "Poetry Sutra Daya Dang": "Like a tick like a mite, like a boiling soup." "The voice of the people who lament is like the sound of the tick, and the heart of worry is like a boiling soup, and the disturbance is restless. In the Lu Southwest dialect, the names include "Zhi", "Cut Willow", "Cockroach", "Chirping Bird", "Sneaking", "Climbing Fork" and so on.
Cicadas can be said to be a representative element of creating a summer atmosphere, and someone once said that "if there is no cicada in summer, it is like no flowers in spring, no bright moon in autumn, and no snow in winter." So how can we know nothing about these singing elves around us?
1. Wheat ant
It is about 2.5 cm long. The back of the body is black, and there are black-brown markings on the wings (also known as "flower wings").
The color of the abdomen is white, as if coated with a thick layer of foundation, called "scale powder", and its specific use is not very clear.
The tortoises are always covered in mud
The cockroaches are shed
The earliest thing that appeared was the cockroach, which was referred to in "Zhuangzi Getaway" "Chao Fungus Does Not Know Obscurity, Cockroach Does Not Know Spring and Autumn". There are also those who call it "Wheat Squeak" and "Wheat Squeak" according to its call. The excavations also coincide with the ripening and harvesting of local wheat, so older farmers also call them the "wheat season". As the saying goes, "wheat squeaks, stops the crown of wheat, and the bridesmaid moves back", and when you hit the wheat, you can hear its "squeak-squeak" call. The chirping sound is single-tuned, making a sound similar to "Nourishing.....". The cockroach is only the size of the belly, which is the small point in the cicada family. Its habitat is generally not high, but its body and wings are jungle camouflaged, and its wings are spread out on the trees, blending in with the trees, and it is difficult to find them when you walk up. The two hindwings of the cockroach are black, which is a more obvious feature, and the male has a strong phototropism, turning on the lights in the house at night, and bumping into the window glass often has one of them. Cockroaches are like messengers of nature, flying to earth at a specific time and telling us that the hot summer is really coming. "Poetry Classic, Wei Feng, Shuo Ren": "Moth eyebrows", describing a beautiful woman with a wide and square forehead, thin and curved eyebrows. The "Grasshopper" article of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Small but literate person is called a mantis, known as a wheat grasshopper (zhá). In the eyes of the ancients, the beautiful woman's brain door should be like the "head of the mantis", the forehead is wide and square, and the eyebrows should be like the "moth eyebrow", and the eyebrows are thin and long. The wide forehead and curved eyebrows were the standards of beauty in the era of the Book of Verses. This kind of cicada is the easiest to catch, they are not very vigilant, usually lying in a relatively low position in the trunk, after being caught, they will quickly flap their wings and make a rapid cry, and the whole body is vibrating, which can shake the fingers a little numb.
2. Horsefly (both) cockroaches
This was followed by grasshoppers, commonly known as madu slips. "Grasshopper" article of the "Materia Medica" "Worms": "The summer moon begins to sing, the big and dark one, the grasshopper also." Also known as the scorpion, the sound sponge. Yue Ma Xue, "May Singing" of the Poems of the Horse, is also. The Huangxian dialect is called "horse stinger". The horsefly is the largest of the cicada family, black and strong, with pale yellowish-brown veins and yellow-green at the base, and the wings cover the back like a roof ridge when they are stationary. The horse stingray is a straight man in the cicada, the voice is straight, high-pitched, "ah-ah-ah" from morning to night to make people dizzy. Horse stingrays are numerous and last a long time, and what we usually call "stingrays" refers to it, and it is mostly caught and fried to eat.
3. Volta
The body is smaller than the horsefly, the body is wide and short, the body color is gray and green, the local ash powder appears, mostly appears in the last day, the scientific name is "singing cicada", also called "whining", because its call is "black oil - black oil - resistant (wow)" - children's song there is "black oil black oil resistant, you eat rao I eat vegetables" words - when calling the stomach will move back and forth, with the expansion of the stomach, the call will also change, repeat several times, the rhythm is getting faster and faster, and then the bubble urine flies away, the dragon sees the head and does not see the tail, it is very difficult to catch it. The cold cicada mentioned in Liu Yong's "Raining Bells and Cold Cicadas" refers to it, because its cry ends with a long tone of "Wow-", which has a bit of a desolate and mournful taste, and the ancient borrowing is lyrical, using it as a symbol of poignancy.
The shelling of the worm is complete