Actually, I'm so old, I'm not sure I've really seen snails. However, I have known the name "snail" since I was a child.
And because I am a minority, I have heard about the national language since I was a child, and in our language, "snail" is not called snail, so I have never seen the true face of snail. After all, the description of the snail "carrying a heavy shell" in Chinese and the image mapped in my mind have never met me in real life. I even think of sticky slugs as snails. Sometimes it seems that snails are not much different from snails. Snails crawl slowly with heavy shells-but snails seem to be inseparable from boiling water most of the time.
I was really surprised when I happened to see this snail!
At first glance, (⊙o⊙) Wow! What a big one-almost as big as my thumb, a little scary.
Look at it again, its two tentacles are distinct, forming an obvious V-shape, just like two antennas on a black-and-white TV set when I was a child, and it can still shake left and right. It seems that it is using its own biological antenna to judge the direction of progress.
Look carefully again, its shell is not as heavy as the legendary feeling. Compared with the shell, its body looks big and long, and the shell is more like a fashionable sun hat on its back. I'm really curious. The ratio of its shell to its body is obviously very different. How can it manage its shell and hide its body inside?
In any case, it should at least not occupy a large area and build a luxurious villa like human beings. It uses a truly environmentally friendly house.
It has been crawling very hard and devoted, completely unaware that I am a monster staring at it.
It is on the main road, and human vehicles rumble by from time to time. Even I am worried about it, afraid that it will be crushed into small patties in an instant. Maybe it also felt the danger-maybe it was washed into the range of human activities and the road by the heavy rain last night.
It keeps crawling, it's really slow, which makes people think it's stupid. Seemingly lost, but firmly looking for a way out. Only hiding in the grass by the roadside can improve its safety factor.
I even look a little impatient. After reading it for a long time, it's still so slow and stupid, with only a little progress-in fact, I can see that it has worked hard, is working hard and has not given up. But I still feel a little disappointed. Why can't it understand my expectations? How I wish it could escape from this "land of right and wrong" quickly.
I have to go somewhere else and come back. It's still there, not far from where I first met it. When I wandered around other places, it still crawled silently, but it didn't hide in the grass as I expected. It was still looking for its own way out.
Such a slow creature has such tenacious vitality.
I don't know if it's father snail or mother snail. Maybe it is crawling on the road of blind date, or maybe it just wants to escape from the road dedicated to human beings-it is still crawling on the road alone, so small, fragile and insignificant, but it has not given up.
I thought about the human attitude towards snails.
First, it is said that snails can eat. Moreover, snails are tender, delicious and nutritious, and people even create their own snail series recipes.
Secondly, it is said that snail shells can be used as medicine. Snail medicine is based on Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica.
Thirdly, it is said that snails can be refined and processed into natural nutritional cream. There is really snail natural skin cream on the market, and it is very popular.
I haven't practiced the above three items personally. In my mind, although the snail is just an insignificant little life, it has its own world and its own reasons for existence. I find it a little hard to accept the way to destroy life crazily for the sake of human's expanding desire.
For this, I know that I can't escape the crime.