“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.
「吓 ! 吓 ! 吓 ! 吓 !~~~ 」夏天的蟬總是不甘寂寞的唱著歌，在淡水的緣道觀音廟周圍多高大的樹木 – 相思樹、油桐樹、樟樹 … ，葉子茂盛，它們都是夏蟬的好歸宿。在這裡，蟬兒會不時的提醒你 - 「夏 ! 夏 ! 夏 ! 夏 !… 」，現在是夏天啦！
其實當我們聽到蟬的鳴叫聲，牠的壽命只剩不到二星期。一隻蟬從卵的誕生、化成蟲，一直到第六年、甚至有的要十幾年後的夏天才能羽化成蟬，展翅飛翔，羽化成蟬後也只有二星期的壽命；成蟬後約五、六天，雄蟬就會開始「吓 ! 吓 ! 吓 ! 吓 !~~~ 」鼓動腹部鼓膜鳴叫吸引雌蟬進行傳宗接代的任務。雌蟬在樹上產卵，卵掉到地上在泥土中長成幼蟲又開始漫長五、六年至十幾年土中不見天日的日子(對牠來說，也或許那是段最幸福的日子，安靜、祥和的在土中，與世無爭)，等待夏日時間到了鑽出土，脫殼重生。古時候的人喜歡用玉蟬陪葬，應也是希望入土後，有一天可以像蟬一樣重生吧 !
夏天雖炎熱，在緣道觀音廟大樹旁帆布棚下，喝著冰拿鐵(我喜歡淡咖啡)，耳裡傳來夏蟬演奏「夏! 夏! 夏! 夏 !~~~ 」的夏日交響曲，與好友話話家常聊聊天，還真是人生一大享受！
蟬寶寶 ! 人生不在乎長短，只在乎曾經擁有、曾經燦爛，珍惜存在的每一刻 ! 這是你的宿命，也是你的生存哲學吧 ! 加油 ! 為燦爛的一生，盡情演奏生命的樂章，最後再畫下完美的休止符 !
*Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple四周茂盛林木，適合蟬兒棲息繁延下一代
