“Sia! Sia! Sia! Sia...” The cicadas are singing in the summer. There are a lot of big trees around the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple in Tamsui. It’s a good place for summer cicadas to live there. “Sia! Sia! Sia! Sia! ...” The cicadas are reminding you: “It’s summer time!”
When we heard the cicada’s singing, actually he could be only alive no more than 2 weeks. A cicada deposits eggs on a tree and eggs fall down on the ground. Then the cicada egg becomes to the cicada worm living in the earth for a long time. Then he becomes to a chrysalis and finally gets out of the earth to be a cicada in the 6th summer after he was born in the world. But he could only have 2 weeks of life after he comes out to see the blue sky. In 5 or 6 days, the male cicada starts to make a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the underside of the abdomen, acted upon by powerful muscles to vibrate his stretched membranes to attract the female cicada for generating their next generation.
It takes 6 years, or even some kinds of cicadas need more then 10 years of time to live in the earth. It’s a long time of dark life in the earth, but maybe it’s a happy time for him – with peace, harmony, no challenge in the earth but just waiting for an appropriate summer time to come out for watching the wonderful world. In the ancient time, some people like to bury a jade cicada with their dead relative. Suppose they were expecting that one day their relative could be reborn like the cicada.
Although it’s hot in the summer, but it’s really great to have a cup of ice Latte coffee under the canopy at the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple. I like it. You could enjoy having a chat with your friends and hearing the Cicada Symphony around of you.
Dear Cicada, Do not care of how long your living time is, but do care of what good time you’ve ever had. To cherish the moment you’ve ever owned. It’s not only your destiny, but it must be also your living philosophy…. Go! Go! Go! Try all of your best to sing the song as what you want till the end of your life.
(Forwarded from Blogger/The Wonderful World)
