Midsummer is here. Looking at the twinkling lights in the city and the sky without stars at night reminds me of the fireflies floating everywhere in the sky at night in my hometown when I was a child.
Fireflies are commonly known as fireflies and bright fireflies. In their hometown, they are called "cotton fireflies". They are the common names for insects that can emit light in the order Insecta, Coleoptera, Pyrididae.. The unique luminous behavior of fireflies makes them an important ornamental insect. In Chinese insect culture, fireflies are as famous as butterflies and crickets . They are sensitive to the environment and are one of the indicator species of ecological quality.
My hometown In the "Baili Landscape Gallery" on the outskirts of Beijing, if we use Tiananmen as the coordinates, it should be the farthest place in the administrative district of Beijing. The crystal clear Black River flows through the foot of the mountain, passes through what is now the Wulong Canyon, meets the Baihe River near Dishui Lake, and finally flows into the Miyun Reservoir.
The environment is beautiful, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the air is fresh, and the people are outstanding. It is not an exaggeration to describe my hometown as a gallery. The brand-new asphalt roads rarely see cars, and the endless stream of tourists during the holidays rarely visit this place. It can be said that the atmosphere of Beijing The best place with the best environment.
When I was young, people in the village often joked with the educated youth from Beijing. You city people pretended to be clean and drank the water left over from bathing and washing clothes. Naughty children often secretly urinate in the water while swimming. When spring comes, The women took basins to the Black River to wash clothes.
Children go to the Black River almost every day to catch fish, tadpoles and tortoises. They take off their clothes and put baskets on their heads and go to the other side of the river to cut pigweed and pick mulberries.
Heihe River was rich in rice in those days. Every time the rice fields came to a hot day, frogs croaked and the smell of waterweed was everywhere.
A canal more than one meter wide winds through the rice fields, and soybeans are planted on both sides of the canal and on the ridges of the fields.
Every time I go to the Heihe River to bathe, I have to walk through dense rice fields. There are often snakes in the rice fields. I am timid, so every time I run over like flying, like floating on the water. In my hometown, the ditches in the rice fields were called "Longgou". When I was a child, I always thought that Longxugou might be just like "Longgou", but with multiple characters for "Xu".
On summer evenings, fireflies are flying all over the sky in the grass, in the rice fields, by the river, and on the roadside of the village, just like stars swimming in the sky and small floating lanterns.
Fireflies are slightly larger than flies, but their bodies are flat and their tails emit yellow-green fluorescence.
On summer evenings, children's games often include using a wooden pole to KUO (a sound that means rounding and hitting) bats and catching fireflies with their hands. Fireflies are everywhere in yards, alleys, streets, and highways, especially near the production team's manure pits and on roadside grass and rice fields.
pulled off the glowing tail and put it on his eyelids. From a distance, it looked like human eyes glowing brightly.
Whenever I see the fluorescent powder painted on the eyes of little girls in the city today, it reminds me of the game I played when I was a kid, putting the tails of fireflies on my eyelids.
However, the smell of fireflies is not very pleasant, it is difficult to describe now.
