0 1 cicada's memory
Just in summer, listen, these elves got out of the soil, climbed up the grass stems and tree trunks, shed their wintering cicadas first, then flapped their wings, flew to other branches and began to call for heat.
This little guy is only about an inch long and cries loudly. Sometimes he saw several people sitting in the yard chatting, and he dared to fly to the nearby tree "hot-hot!" " Singing a song quietly, completely ignoring their crying has interrupted people's conversation.
I followed the prestige and finally saw it lying on the trunk screaming happily, and its body was still fluctuating regularly with the sound. I approached the tree quietly, turned behind it, took a good look at its position, stretched out my hand like an arrow and caught it. This is a very fat guy.
It struggled in my hand, and its cry changed, as if begging for mercy. "Who told you to make trouble is unforgivable!" Thinking about it, I tore off its wings and threw it on the ground. Wingless cicadas are humming and dancing on the ground. The rooster, who was leading several hens foraging on the ground, saw it first and ran to the cicada. He doesn't worry about his mouth, but cackles at his hen. A hen heard the cock crow and made two steps in three steps. As soon as she opened her mouth, the cicada was put in her mouth, swallowed twice and swallowed into her stomach. After swallowing, the old hen looked around me to see if there was anything delicious. This is really satisfying.
I remember when we were young, we heard adults say that cicada slough was edible and delicious. So my parents and I went to catch cicadas in the Woods, but the tree was too high to reach. A clever partner bent a circle the size of a bowl with wire, tied it to a bamboo pole, and found some cobwebs around the corner, which became a sharp weapon for catching cicadas. Seeing cicadas on that tree, I leaned in quietly, looked at the right time, and covered the wire ring wrapped in cobwebs. Cicada couldn't escape if she wanted to, but she could only be caught.
Don't say that catching cicadas is much faster with this sharp weapon. My parents and I quickly grabbed a big bag, loaded with rich fruits of labor, and went home singing.
In the farm yard, find some firewood, make a fire, and when there is charcoal, put the cicada sandwiched inside on the charcoal and it will be cooked in a few minutes. Everyone will sit around the fire and enjoy delicious cicada meat under the tree. The smell is still clear in my memory. When I hear cicadas chirping in summer, I will think of the scene of burning cicada meat when I was a child, and my mouth will swallow it.
02? Understand the encyclopedia
Cicada only sucks the juice from the branches all her life. It sucks food juice (tree pulp) from branches with needle-shaped mouthparts. Whenever cicadas are thirsty and hungry, they always insert hard mouthparts into the trunk to suck the juice all day, and suck a lot of nutrients and water into their bodies to prolong their life.
Cicada grows in the soil before it is mature, then slowly digs a hole and climbs up the trunk. If there is mud in the soil-stealing hole, there will be cicadas. Cicada lies on the tree trunk at night to shed its shell, and then it has wings.
Cicada larvae live in the soil and have a pair of powerful digging front legs. Sucking the sap from the roots of plants with mouthparts weakens the tree, makes the branches die and affects the growth of trees.
Usually I will stay in the soil for several years or even more than ten years, such as three years, five years, and 17 years. These numbers have one thing in common, they are all prime numbers. This is because there are few prime factors, which can prevent them from drilling out with other cicadas when they drill out of the soil, competing for territory and food.
When it is about to emerge, drill out of the ground at dusk and night, climb to the tree, and then grab the bark to shed its skin and emerge. When a black crack appears on the back of the cicada pupa, the molting process begins. The head came out first, and then the green body and wrinkled wings were revealed. Stop for a minute with hardened wings and deepened colors, and start to take off. The whole process takes about an hour.
Cicada's life is mainly divided into three stages, one is egg, larva and adult. Cicada eggs are laid on branches and larvae live underground. After four years of underground life, adults will climb the branches, and male adults will complete the mating task as soon as possible, and then die soon.
The female cicada will lay four to eight eggs on the branch, and soon the female cicada will die. Both male and female cicadas will die soon after completing their reproductive tasks.
03? Medicinal value of cicada
The faded shells of cicadas, also called cicada clothes and cicada slough, are authentic Chinese herbal medicines.
Cicadas, also known as cicada retreat and cicada slough, are sweet and cold in nature and enter the liver and lung meridians. Its qi is clear and weak, and it has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, dispersing lung and relieving spasm. Modern pharmacological research shows that cicada slough has anticonvulsant, sedative, reducing the tension of striated muscle and blocking ganglion to relieve bronchial smooth muscle spasm, and has antiallergic effect. Therefore, cicada clothing can be used not only for treating wind-heat cold and aphonia, but also for relieving cough, treating deafness, insomnia and allergic rhinitis.
1, cough
Cicada is good at stopping throat itching and treating cough. Commonly used for laryngeal cough, characterized by dry cough, little or no sputum, accompanied by severe itching in the throat, sudden cough when itchy, spasmodic cough, with the characteristics of stubborn illness and long course of disease. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is considered that the cause of laryngeal cough is cold and liver wind. The so-called pneumatic golden bell jar, wooden bell. Due to the attack of cold, the lung loses its declaration and the lung qi rises; Or the qi of liver wood grows too much, which insults the gold of lung and the lung loses its propaganda. The location of cough is mainly in the lung, and the liver is the dirty of wind and wood, which can't be discharged or rose too much, which affects the Su Xuan of the lung, so the cough can't stop. Cicada enters the lung and liver, which can clear away gold and produce wood, dispel wind and clear heat, spread lung and promote qi, calm liver and relieve spasm, and has the functions of relieving spasm and calming airway.
2, deafness
"The Origin of Miscellaneous Diseases: Rhinoceros Candle" Volume 23 says: "Only the kidney is familiar with the ear, so you can concentrate on it. In fact, it is because the water is rich in gold, the lung stores the main qi, and the whole body's qi penetrates the ear and can be heard. Therefore, to treat deafness, we must first regulate qi and relieve depression. " Cicada can spread lung and calm liver, clear wind and heat in liver meridians, dredge ear orifices and listen to ears.
3, insomnia
The clinical pharmacology of periostracum cicadae has also proved that periostracum cicadae has sedative effect, so it can be caused by insomnia.
4, aphonia
Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Cicada can cure adult aphonia." "Records of Western Ginseng Medicine" also said: "Cicada is crisp and good at medicine." It is a commonly used medicine for the treatment of aphonia, and the general dose is 15 ~ 20g.
Step 5 smell
The nasal symptoms are mostly itchy nose, sneezing and runny nose. Speaking of colds, what enters the lungs is a cold. When the wind is strong, it itches. When it itches, it sneezes to ward off evil spirits. Cicada has the function of expelling wind and relieving itching, which is helpful to control the attack of allergic rhinitis.
Cicadas will spend most of their lives in the soil. After getting out of the ground and shedding its cicada skin, its life span is only a few days to dozens of days. No one knows how many years he stayed in the soil. The sloughed cicada has become a Chinese herbal medicine. In the last few decades of his life, he continued his life on the tree by sucking sap and ended his last life with a high-pitched song.
There are many childhood memories about cicada, but I have never paid attention to this little guy's life experience. Today, I wrote a rough book to "know" this elf.