Prose ｜ Yuan Fangming: Listen to Cicada

Text/Yuan Fangming

There is a row of tall and tall French sycamores on the roadside of Luo Hongqiao, Jinjiang District, Chengdu. Every summer, this is the happy field of the cicada, the cicada's galloping, the Garden of Cicada, and the happy forest of the cicada. They sang high in the sun and sang in the sun.

I have lived here for two years and listened to the cicada.

Cicada is a messenger of light and warmth. The cicada must pass through the three stages of larvae, cicada, and adults. The larvae can only live in the ground for 5-12 years. Most of them spend most of the time on the dark underground. After adults, they sang when they saw the light, and felt warm and flinged. If you hear the cicada, it means that the hot summer comes.

Cicada is a symbol of resurrection and eternal life. Generally speaking, the cicada's life will go through 5 molting (4 times on the ground, the last time above the ground) to become adults. When the spring flowers bloom and the weather is warm every year, the larvae climb from the ground to the ground; when it comes to the autumn and winter, sneak into the soil and avoid the cold.

Every time the cicada transformed, the old, dry, light yellow cicada shells are removed in exchange for a delicate, light green yellow body like baby. After each transformation, the body becomes stronger and more powerful. The molting symbolizes the regeneration of life, breaks away from restraint, get rid of the old body, and moves towards new life. As a result, the ancient Chinese people regarded the cicada as a symbol of resurrection and longevity, and they repeatedly started and ended up. Therefore, the ancients often put the jade cicada into the mouth of the dead, and begged to take care of and immortal.

Cicada is a symbol of Gao Jie and Holy. The ancients thought that the cicada did not eat the grain, but just sucking the wind and dew, like "the god of Gushan", and did not eat the fireworks on the earth, and stayed away from the stinky stinky stink. They inhabits high branches and stay away from the hustle and bustle. Therefore, since ancient times, people have praised cicadas and regarded it as a symbol of Gao Jie gentleman. Cicada is loved by literati and the people like Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum.

Cicada is located on the sycamore trees opposite the window, sitting at home or lying in bed, you can hear the call of the cicada at any time. The cicada's cry is getting higher, or high or low, or strong or weak, short or long, or high, or low -pitched, passing through thick leaves, crossing the bustling crowd, stimulating the eardrum, and straight into the heart field.

The sound of cicadas in the morning is pleasing. In the early morning of the midsummer, when the wake -up, the cicada outside the window was like a sea of ​​the sea, and the position was coming for a while; like the morning bell, it was awake; The arrival of light.

The sound of cicadas at noon is irritating. At noon, the high temperature was roasted with the ground, the heat rose, and the Sanfu Tian was even hot, and people felt upset. At noon, the temperature was the highest, and the cicada was more enthusiastic and more passionate. At this time, when I heard the sound of the cicadas, I was unable to be upset and did not listen.

The cicada sounds in the evening are calm. In the summer evening, the red sun falls, the sky is full of the sky, the everything is gradually quiet, and the human heart is gradually quiet. The tired body returned home, and when he entered the door, the sound of the cicada rang from the window. Although people were tired at this time, the cicada sound was not as high as fierce at noon, the intensity decreased, the time was shortened, the gap increased, and it became slow and melodious. Sitting on the sofa, listening to the cicada, like listening to a relaxed music, such as the flute of the shepherd, such as the fishing song singing late, the heart gradually became peaceful.

The cicada of the late night was hometown. When lying on the bed to sleep, the ears sounded again. If there is just a full moon from the window at this time, listen to the cicada that is like a cicada, looking at the Yuanyue, and the love of the nostalgia is born. The cicada was ovulated, and the mother cicada left after spawning, and let the cicada eggs grow. After many degenerations, the young cicada finally sang Gao Ming in the summer, but his parents did not know where to go.

Why am I not? After leaving his hometown for many years, a person came to Chengdu to make a living. Parents and relatives are far away from their hometown. During the year, they are rare to reunite. Only during the full moon, they suffered the suffering of the thoughts, the tears of the village, and the sadness of the injury to the people. Most people and animals are like this, and everything is likely.

I just listened to the cicada Ming of more than two years. In the early morning, noon, evening, and night, I listened to the same and different cicadas, felt different moods, felt the changes in sequentialness, felt all things, felt all things The glory, feeling the passage of time.

【About the Author】

Yuan Fangming, a native of Neijiang, Sichuan, a doctor of philosophy of Sichuan University, director of the Xiamen Yixue Research Association. In the "Guangming Daily", "Chinese Crying", "Research on Zhouyi", "Research on Religious Law", "Nanchong Daily", "Neijiang Daily" and "Dalian Evening News" and other publications published many articles.

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