The cicada is also called cicada, and the cicada monkey is also called cicada monkey or cicada turtle. It is a cicada larva, reddish and good at crawling. After the wheat harvest season, the rainy season comes, and the weather is even hotter. The cicada emerges from the soft soil, climbs to the trunk or grass tip and turns into a cicada. Knowing that monkeys are cold and fragrant, they have the functions of dispersing wind, dispersing lung, relieving fever and calming convulsions. Knowing that monkeys are nutritious and delicious, they have become fashionable and delicious delicacies. Knowing that monkeys have extremely high medicinal value besides edible value, according to China Medicinal Materials, cicada nymphs are beneficial to essence and yang, quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, protecting lung and kidney, resisting bacteria and lowering blood pressure, treating alopecia and inhibiting cancer, and cicada slough is rich in chitin. It has the effects of dispelling wind, dissipating heat, penetrating rash, relieving cough, relieving guilt, tonifying kidney, clearing away heat and detoxicating. It is often used to treat exogenous wind-heat, hoarse cough, sore throat, rubella itching, red eyes, tetanus, enuresis, enteritis, infantile convulsion and epilepsy, and crying at night. It can be said that cicadas are all over the body. Most of the producing areas are Anhui, Shandong and Henan. Because of its considerable market value, most of the markets are farmed products. There are few wild cicadas. Because of the lack of growth years (wild products are 3-7 years, farmed products are1.5-2.2 years), some farmers even use some chemicals, which leads to the reduction of various elements in their bodies and weakens their nutritional and medicinal values.