Listen, worms are singing

The city that has long been in high-rise buildings and roads seems to be far removed from nature. Suddenly, from the outside of the building, the voice of “selling crickets and selling crickets” was heard, and then there was a clear insect in the ear. At that moment, my heart seemed to have grown green.

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Listen to insects, how to enjoy it!

The ancients seemed particularly sensitive to the sounds of various insects. There are many records in The Book of Songs and The Book of Rites. In later poems, this was also frequently seen, for example, "Nightmare became Xia-Jian, Yin-Ying first heard of autumn" (Yan Yanzhi's "Summer Night was from Xiong San Xia Sha"); "Sound" (Tang Wei Zhuang "listen to Zhao Xiucai playing the piano"); Another example is "flower warm bee scorpion" (Tang Du Fu's "sweeping and sending out Yan Gong Gong").

Nurturing children is a favorite of many people in old Beijing courtyard houses. In the past, after the harvest, there were hawkers selling crickets in the alley. Most of them are packed in straw or wheat straw cages. The cage looks very whimsical, round, square, triangular, and even octagonal. From afar, you can hear the crisp cries of deaf children. This cry has attracted many people in courtyard houses, allowing them to take out their money willingly. The price of this nephew is not high, and there is a description of "Yanjing's Yearbook" in which "After May, there are nephews (nephews) selling along the streets, each of which is only one or two articles."

These nephews are mostly from Yi County and Yishui District in Hebei Province. They are loud and cry. People who buy nephews rarely buy one, most of them buy double children. First, old Beijingers have the habit of pairing and pairing. The pair is a lucky number. The second is that two nephews can play tricks with each other. Huan. Most of the cages for the children who bought them were hung on the eaves, the thresholds, the windows, the vines in the yard, or the jellyfish trees. After that, the cries of the nephew became the most pleasant sound in the courtyard. This sound can accompany people into the winter.

There are a lot of people who pay attention to the selection of Beijing deaf children. One is to pick all the deaf children who have to be full-tailed and sound-pleasing; the other is to pick decent children who have good color and good appearance, and generally choose black, green, and blue. The third is to choose good children who love to jump, and the more lively and obnoxious children, the more popular. According to the seasons, this child has the distinction of summer and autumn. Before the beginning of autumn, it is summer child, and after the beginning of autumn, it is autumn child. If you meet the right kind of child, it will be no problem to raise you to the midwinter. In the early years, in order to buy a top grade nephew, some wealthy or identifiable people would travel to Hebei, Shandong, and even northeast cities within a hundred miles, and spend a high price on it.

Today's Beijingers mostly live in buildings and there is not much space for the children to sing. As soon as it came time to go, it wasn't as much as before that the children in Beijing were selling babblers. Only in the temple fairs and a few flower and bird markets were there occasional sellers. Most of the people around them were gathering their favorite deaf children and discussing them. When they looked to the side, they still stood looking at the children's cages with their eyes open after longing for the frame.

Fighting

Apart from listening, Beijingers also like to fight. The nephew, also called or woven. In the old days, every fall, the children in the bucket became the custom of playing in the courtyard. From the royal family to the nobles, down to the common people, it was good to have a fight. However, in the past, most Beijingers raised their children but did not gamble. The fight was a pleasure. Even if they were hanging, it was only a pack of cigarettes and half a catty of mixed sugar. There was very little gambling.

Although the nephew is small, there are many stresses. The same is the case of fighting, in the courtyard is also divided into threes and nines and so on. The most down-to-earth is that a few children happily play in their own yard or in the doorway. The equipment is nothing more than jars, glass bottles, and that's not what the best stuff is, they are often caught in the "coffin board children", "old rice mouth children." In the medium class, some literati fight in their homes, mainly for entertainment, with friends and children. The best is that Dangguan nobles set up a case in the courtyard house. Please ask some noble friends to gather together for the best interest, but pay more for the gamble.

Beijingers play mostly in the “Yellow Tooth Yellow” produced in Dezhou, Shandong Province, “Tietou Youth” and “Black and Blue Youth Head” in Ningyang, and also in “Su Fu’an” in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing. "Shrimphead Green" in Black Dragon Pool and "Cowou Head" in Fushou Mountain of Shijingshan. When playing with children, pay attention to using clips, hooks, flash, hide piers, hold, hoop, bite, squeak, roll and other tricks. Raising children needs pots, buckets also need pots, and very particular about. Ordinary people in courtyard houses often use wooden cages and bamboo cages for raising. When using buckets, muddy pots or pots are often used. The general fight of the nephew is not fascinating, but the good nephew is not the same, and its appellation is also beautiful - "Wings the Great General", "Marshal Red-beard", "Big Mac", "Invincible King", "Flower" Spotted leopard" and so on.

Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was the climax of the children in the courtyard courtyard. The fight of the two younger children could attract more than a dozen people to watch and applaud. The victorious nephew blew and the owner applauded. If you evenly divide, the number of battles will be decided, and the master will give you peace. The little nephew brought infinite joy to the courtyard.