What are the stories in Insects?

1, dung beetles

Fables said: In ancient Egypt, when people saw dung beetles passing by and were busy pushing something like a ball back, they would imagine the ball as a model of the earth and think that the movement of dung beetles was in harmony with the movement of celestial planets, so they called it a "sacred beetle". At the same time, they think that the ball that the beetle rolls on the ground contains eggs, from which the little beetle comes out.

2. cicadas and ants

Fables thinks that the story described in the fable "Cicada and Ant" that "Cicada doesn't work and sing in summer, but begs from hardworking ants in winter and summer" is completely false. He thinks this story is completely misunderstood, even written backwards, because ants are bad people who will rob cicadas. When cicadas make a well full of juice on plants with their sharp mouths, ants often drive away cicadas by biting their wings and legs and encroach on the fruits of their labor.

3.mantis

When talking about mantis, Fabres thought that British doctors and scientists in the19th century would also tell many ridiculous stories. The British doctor and scientist said, "If a child gets lost in the forest, he can ask mantis to show him the way. Mantis will stick out its feet and show him the right way, with little or no mistakes. "

4.tarantula

In the story of Fabres, the Italian said, "The sting of a tarantula can make people twitch and dance wildly. There is no panacea for this disease except music. And only a few fixed songs are particularly effective in treating this disease. " Fables did not simply refute this absurd rumor.

Creative background:

The artistic features of Insect Tale can be summarized as: easy to understand, lively and interesting, poetic prose style, coexistence of humanistic spirit, and mutual complement of knowledge, interest and beauty. It accurately records the observed facts without any additions or deletions.

Fabres has "philosopher-like thinking, artist-like appearance and writer-like feeling and description". This book is a life movement written for insects and an immortal world masterpiece.

It combines the author's careful observation, painstaking research and life experience of insects, which not only enables people to acquire relevant scientific knowledge when reading, but also makes wise thoughts and philosophies leap from the paper. In the author's simple pen, a serious academic work, such as a beautiful essay, readers can not only gain knowledge and ideas from it, but also read itself as a unique aesthetic process.

In The Tale of Insects, Fabres not only found and observed insects with the eyes of natural scientists, but also broke through the artificial barrier between "insect nature" and human nature with poetic perceptual vision and kind humanitarian heart, boldly describing and revealing the amazing wisdom and spirituality of insects for survival and development.

The author looks at insects from a human perspective: although he writes about insects, it breeds human delicate psychology.