Talking from Tarantella Dance
/kloc-Around the 0/8th century, in Apulia, southern Italy, a folk dance with triple time was popular, called Tarantella. It is said that everyone who dances this crazy dance has been bitten by a local poisonous spider. This disease is called Tarantella disease. This kind of dance is enthusiastic, rapid and intense, and the leg movements are rich and varied. Famous musicians such as Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Rossini have all written music for this dance.
There are about 40,000 kinds of spiders on the earth, and Tarantella is one of them. According to their habits, they can be roughly divided into three categories: safari spiders, spider webs and cave spiders. All spiders have a pair of fangs, and their toxicity is different. The most notorious are tarantula, black widow, bird spider, and tarantula poisonous spider. Although these brown or black elves are not evil spirits sent by Satan, their looks are really flattering. Look, they have eight sparkling eyes and eight furry long legs. It was really scary. Its body is also divided into two parts: the chest and the abdomen. There is a rotator under the abdomen, from which six silk threads can be drawn. This is a tool for spiders to weave webs and catch prey. Once they catch their prey, they will tie it up with spider silk like mummies and put it aside for a rainy day.
Spiders are ugly, strange and weird, and their bodies lack bright colors, so people often classify them with bats, toads, poisonous snakes, lizards, centipedes and scorpions, and stay away from them. But who knows, most of them are beneficial insects. They catch crickets, Cao Meng, flies, mosquitoes, moths and other pests. However, not all spiders are beneficial insects, and the red spider in the cotton field is one of the pests. This guy, only the size of rapeseed, once flooded, can destroy the whole cotton field. Spiders are secretive, and their places of activity are also boring, such as broken walls, ruined temples, cemeteries, deserted rural areas and other places. Of course, if necessary, residential houses are also a good place for them to visit.
I remember that year, I lived in a foreign country. Because I am not very sanitary, there is a lot of dust on the window of my room. One morning, a ray of sunshine shone into the room. I found a small spider web on the window, and an uninvited guest lived in the center of the spider web. Once mosquitoes, moths, flies, etc. Carelessly hit the net it was weaving, and the eight-legged "guest" immediately rushed at it angrily, tied up its trophy with spider silk and put it aside. Not long after, many "mummies" were hung on the spider web. Once, I had a whim and wanted to play a joke on it, so I rubbed a paper ball the size of a broad bean and threw it on a spider web to see how my "guest" reacted. Hehe, I saw my eight-legged "guest" running towards the paper ball as if victory was in sight. I watched the beginning of the play hopefully to see if it could also tie paper balls into mummies and make fun of it. However, my wishful thinking is wrong. The "guest" who knows me caught the "prey", silently hooked his hind legs on the spider web, picked up the paper ball with his forelimbs and threw it at me like playing basketball (about ten centimeters away from the spider web). I laughed to myself in surprise, and at the same time I sincerely admire this guy's ability to tell the truth from the false. Then I took a fancy to spiders. Later, my family's housing conditions improved and the room was bright and clean. But as long as it's a spider, whether it's a web spider or a safari spider, I won't hurt them and I won't live in peace with them. Sometimes, I also observe the brave scene of hunting spiders and catching flies with great interest. I saw that this spider can pounce on its prey like a tiger when catching it. So, I gave them a more appropriate name: "Flying Tiger".
Because of the trouble caused by my tolerant policy, the number of spiders in the room has increased to about ten. They seem to understand our friendship, so they climbed up my desk, sofa and bed unscrupulously. After all, they are not angels sent by God, so I can't treat these elves as my pets. However, they didn't think much. When the winter comes, my eight-legged "guests" probably want to find a warm place for the winter. One of them, a big guy, actually got into my quilt. I opened the quilt and scared me. But what can I do? Who let me be their friend? I had to gently push it to the wall and let it find a new nest.
Although spiders are closely related to human life. However, some of their "privacy" is really shocking and frightening. In particular, they are neither romantic nor enthusiastic in mating and reproduction, which makes people sick. Generally speaking, it is the male spider who comes to the door to find the female spider to fall in love. However, this behavior of the male spider is tantamount to risking his own life. If he is not careful, he will die. This is because God lacks the principle of fairness and shapes the female spider into a shape several times larger than the male spider. In front of the female spider, the male spider is like a little boy without resistance, while the female spider is like a strong man. Nevertheless, the male spider still wants to enjoy the sweetness of deadly love. A male spider quietly came to the edge of the spider web, plucked the spider web like a string with his forelimbs, and watched the reaction of the female spider in order to take the next step. Seeing that the female spider did not move, the male spider who wanted to be a lover got the nerve to climb to the center of the spider web. I saw the male spider carefully climb behind the female spider, staring nervously at eight monocles, and then touching the bride's abdomen with his forelimbs, only to see that the bride was silent. At this time, the male spider trembled and climbed onto the huge back of the female spider, and fell in love with it with surprise. Who knows, before the mating is over, the female spider shows her ferocious face. I saw that it firmly grasped the male spider with eight legs without hesitation, and began to devour its lover from the head. The dying male spider didn't resist, probably begging his bride to forgive him. The cruel bride was unmoved and continued to treat her lover as a big meal, enjoying the delicious taste of male spiders. Poor male spider, who sacrificed his life for love, is really pitiful.
Soon, many lively and lovely little spiders appeared on the spider web. These little spiders are not much bigger than the tip of a needle. Mother Spider's back and legs are covered with her happy children. Mother spider walked around happily with her baby in her arms, ecstatic. However, because of hunger, the little guys bit the spider mother's body with their little mouths and sucked her body fluids. At this moment, the spider mother showed unparalleled maternal love, lying there motionless, letting her cubs suck their body fluids until they dried up and even died. Poor female spider, for the sake of maternal love and her next generation, did not hesitate to sacrifice her life and reproduce, thus fulfilling the historical mission of being a mother. What kind of love is this? At the same time, how brutal and cruel the female spider is in treating her lover!
You know, my friends, in nature, there are many lives that don't follow the rules of the game. It is common that warmth and cruelty coexist, and friendship and barbarism coexist. What's the fuss about?