Cicada slough:

(1) The shell that the cicada sheds when it changes from a larva to an adult. Can be used as medicine. Cold in nature and sweet in taste. Mainly used to treat colds, fever, cough, and hoarseness. A cicada. "Compendium of Materia Medica·Chong San·Grasshopper" written by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty: "Cicada is transformed from the residual air of soil and wood. It drinks wind and absorbs dew. Its Qi is clear and weak, so its main treatment is all symptoms of wind and heat. The ancients used it for the body, and later generations used it. Sloughing. In general, cicada body should be used to treat internal organs and meridians; cicada sloughing should be used to treat skin sores and wind-heat. It also treats mute disease and nocturnal cries. See " Cicada shell".

(2), a phenomenon similar to cicada shedding. Li Fuyan of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Xu Xuan Wei Lu·Yang Jingzheng": "In the Ming Dynasty, I was surprised that he got up late. I opened the door and looked at him. His clothes were left on the bed. Like a cicada, he was gone." The poem "Spring Sleep" by Su Shunqin of the Song Dynasty: "The body is gone." Like a cicada sloughing off a bed, dreaming like a willow flower flying thousands of miles away. "Qing Yuan Mei's "Xu Xin Qi Xie·Gou'er": "A few days later, I felt numbness and itching in my body, so I went to the stream to bathe, and suddenly the black-skinned cicada sloughed off and its appearance changed. "Man."

(3) Yu Jie is tall and does not follow the trend. "Historical Records: Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng": "In the dredging mud, the cicadas shed themselves out of the filth, and are separated from the floating dust." Tang Gaoshi's poem "Farewell to the King of Seventeen Guans": "The loud song just oscillates, and the elegance He is thinking vigorously, and suddenly he is like a cicada, and I should learn from the cicada. ""The Scholars" Chapter 55: "Now it's time to shed my clothes and wash my feet in the waves."

( 4). It means getting rid of poverty and gaining fame and wealth. Jin Gehong's "Baopuzi An Poverty": "I am tired of writing, how can I expect the cicada to shed in time." Sun Hua of the Qing and Tang Dynasties' poem "Ban Pan'an Di": "When the government is recommended by the captain, the dust begins to shed."

(5). It is a metaphor for something old to become new, to abandon darkness and turn to light. "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty·Zhang Heng Biography": "The cicada sheds when it is deified, and it becomes a disciple when the friend is refined." Li Xian's note: "The words are old and become new again, just like the cicada sheds." "Selected Works·Sun Chu" is written by Shi Zhongrong and Sun Hao ＞》: "Also in Nanzhong, Lu Xing, who is deeply familiar with the destiny of heaven, sheds introverted cicadas, and wishes to be my concubine." Zhang Xian's note: "The back is chaotic and facing the truth, just like the cicada sheds its skin."

(6) , metaphor is reborn. It mostly refers to cultivating the Taoism or becoming an immortal. Jin Zuosi's "Wu Du Fu": "The father of Gui changed his shape and color, and the red-bearded cicada shed his body and became beautiful." Tang Luyan's "Seven Characters" poem: "I once shed a cicada in Jinshui, and I changed my name to Penglai." Song Ge Volume 12 of Li Fang's "Yun Yu Yang Qiu": "Since Zuo Yuan let the cicadas shed their eggs, the wonder of the nine turns of the golden elixir has never been heard." Wu Weiye of the Qing Dynasty's "Jiufeng Caotang Song": "Zhong Nan dragged his stick to pick medicine, and saw flying on the river. Qiulong. The cicada is about to fall from the purple mud, but it turns around and refuses to follow Dongfeng."

(7) It means breaking the old and establishing the new, achieving higher achievements. Jiao Hong of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Jiao Shi Bi Cheng· Reading the Analects": "When a friend comes from afar, he first perceives and then knows, and he wakes up first and then realizes. Lifting my wife's shackles and letting the cicada shed them, the joy of friends is also my joy." Qian Qianyi of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Tian Zu Shuo of Yuan Qinian's Zi": "Tian Zu's embryo has a bright future, and the cicada has shed its secular knowledge. He is an outstanding person who is aspiring to literature."