Reflections on Reading The Beauty of Insects

Thoughts on Reading Beauty of Insects (1)

I like insects very much, probably because I had a lot of chickens at home when I was a child. I often catch bugs for chickens! So after having a daughter, I bought her two sets of Fables' Insects, one set of paintings and one set of text editions. Not only does my daughter love it, but I also often watch it.

This holiday, I came across another wonderful book with pictures and texts about insects. On the title page of this book, there is such a touching preface:

People often ask me, why is your camera so close to insects? I never answer. It's not difficult to answer, but I'm worried that I won't be understood. Now, it's time to answer-that's because I'm curious enough. Curiosity has changed everything, at least, made me clumsy and patient. In order to shorten the distance, my steps are light, I hold my breath, and at the most critical moment, I even want to hold my heart. It happened at this moment, and I didn't know it until later-then I looked at these photos and heard my excited footsteps in the halo of the air; From the bending of the grass, I found my own breath; I saw my heartbeat on the flapping butterfly wings.

A friend who also likes photography and writing typed this preface into the mailbox and sent it to me. I read the picture first, then read the book. I was immediately captured by the elegance between the lines. The name of this book is Beauty of Insects. Li Yuansheng is a poet, journalist and insect photographer.

However, when I got this book in expectation and imagination, those exquisite pictures still made me ecstatic. Those shining wings, those tentacles that can be reached at your fingertips, those gorgeous colors, and those gorgeous dances in the grass under the stars are dreamlike and beautiful like legends. Just dragonflies, butterflies, small beetles beside mounds, moths or cicadas flying in summer, and fireflies at night, but thousands of stories and customs are interpreted in the author's lens and words. It turns out that they, like everyone around us, have their own temperament and characteristics, but they are rarely known to us. It turns out that they are so poetic in a world that many people don't know. In some corners of nature, they are gorgeous dancers under the vast starry sky.

Looking through this book, I found many nice names. In fact, there is a kind of dragonfly, commonly known as Yan Niang, which is the kind of dragonfly with beautiful flying posture, bright colors on its back and even dazzling metallic luster. I don't know when it will pass by us by a stream that travels far by chance. Insects that are good at singing like crickets, but look a bit like grasshoppers, have a strange name-katydids. The author describes them as living jasper, which can breathe changing jade, and their stage only needs a dead branch or a broad leaf.

After reading this book, I observed more plants around me. When I watered the plaid grass on the office table that day, I found a small yellow lump behind the plaid leaves. When my finger touched it, it spread its wings and flew away. In the air, brown spots appeared on its back, and I suddenly remembered my grandfather's nickname as a child-the bride. However, what I saw at that time was mostly red, and the gorgeous red was also colorful. Xiaoyuan's appearance is really cute, which is quite consistent with the bride's fame. For a long time, I mistakenly thought it was a ladybug that often appeared in children's literature. I remember there is also a very small spider, which sometimes hangs a silk from the air and quietly falls in front of it. Its name is better, commonly known as "Xixi" Just like magpies, they bring good luck.

The author of "The Beauty of Insects" is a poet, but each of his paintings and a passage by Mei tell us that his romantic feelings are attached to life. In this book, I understand a meaning that poets are not synonymous with fantasy and fantasy, but a sincere way of loving life. In order to take a photo and not disturb a butterfly, he will approach for an hour at a distance of 30 meters. What kind of patience does this require? Three kinds of butterflies on appointments in spring are rare in other places, so he has formed the habit of visiting Nanshan at the end of March every year. He never interfered in their lives, just took pictures, sometimes, even didn't take pictures, just looked around quietly ... In this way, what I read was not pure encyclopedic knowledge, not the dazzling animal world, but a happy and emotional heart.

I don't like photography because I lack patience to wait for the mosaic flying saucer to be silent in the wind. But this does not prevent me from reading a book related to photography at some time. Reading such a book, just as the author felt when observing a wonderful insect, the heart is no longer heavy, it becomes lighter, as simple and transparent as morning dew.

I always like to tell students the names of flowers and grasses between lectures, such as the golden dandelion in the corner of the campus, the weeds with purple flowers on the window sill of the classroom, called Laolaiqiao, and the plantain growing close to the ground. Another name of Yushu is cheeky. These often make students feel the natural beauty around them for no reason. Perhaps, knowing the beauty of some insects will stop me and my students and make a poetic guess about the orange moth that accidentally flew into the classroom.

Thoughts on Reading The Beauty of Insects (Part Two)

When I opened The Beauty of Insects, I was shocked by the exquisite pictures-every model in the photographer's lens was an elf, a beautiful elf. I can't imagine what kind of words I will use to match this unadorned nature. So, I carefully input the text.

Life in a puddle

The puddle on the Yuan Ye is too small to hold the shadow of a cloud. "Even if you are a poet, you can't call it a mirror, because a lot of grass jumps out of the water and covers your imaginary mirror." But it is "the cradle of many insects' lives and an important stage for them". "The author describes the residents in the puddle, such as Andersen, who are running his fairy tales, but readers can see them through this paper. As the author said: "Usually, we can find groups of water near the water (on the right side of flies). Nymphs gather and disperse, forming an abstract pattern of change. This design is like the cover of the book Shuiwa, reminding us that there are still many miracles of life waiting for us, and you can enjoy them slowly. "

The puddle is still like this, and so is the world around us. It's just that the cover is always ignored by us.

Small lanterns in the dark

The writer once "followed the little dot in the sky like a demon, regardless of the surrounding things". "These small lanterns that are bigger and brighter than their own bodies in the dark are often just walking alone in the night sky, and they can't find another self." If the person reading this passage happens to have read The Kite Runner, he will suddenly find himself a suitor, but he doesn't know what a small lantern is in the dark and what a kite is in the sky.

Sex is beautiful.

"A moth, no matter how beautiful, is only half the shape of a flower. Together, they form a complete flower. " Only a poet can prove that sex is beautiful? For example, "some insects, although wild enough, behave far more like gentlemen than we think." Expect me to understand this and not make the poet angry. After all, a real poet should be like this.

Elegance dancer

"Yes, there must be a melody that we don't know, which fluctuates in nature and leads the growth, reproduction and evolution of all things. We can't hear, but through flying insects, we can vaguely feel the mysterious and great movement. " Insects are messengers at this time-butterflies fly into Zhuang Zhou's dream, and you and I dream. Why can't they be Mayflies?

Of course, it can also be other insects or anything other than insects. But no matter what it is, it is elegant dancers who lead us to "feel the mysterious and great music" as messengers.

Cicada and its relatives

"If there is only one cicada chirping in the deep valley, you will feel that the sound of leaves in the wind may drown out its chirping. Because there is no response, it sounds a bit lonely and wronged. " The loneliness and grievances here are more writers and readers than cicadas.

We are all relatives of cicadas.

Lovely fairy

"Homoptera insects are mostly exaggerated in appearance, and some species smaller than cicadas, especially wax cicadas, foam cicadas, moth wax cicadas and leafhoppers, can definitely leave a deep impression on the audience. The adults of these insects are not serious enough to make people laugh, and their nymph period is even more ridiculous. " Before I saw how funny fairies were, I had seen the writer laughing-a clever and patient writer who held his breath and even tried to hold his heartbeat and laughed away from people without knowing it.

"From their eggs, this game rescue began. In every egg, there is a designer who tries his best to make a splash. " I don't know who the author was thinking when he wrote here. Anyway, when I read this, I saw many familiar shadows.

The promise of spring

"... this also makes it particularly difficult to visit them. It only takes ten days to see them in a long year. After getting to know and like them, I got into the habit of visiting them in Nanshan from the end of March to the beginning of April every year. Don't interfere in their lives, just take pictures, sometimes even don't take pictures, just watch quietly nearby. "Besides" dignity ",what else can make a writer treat it like this? Short-lived, persistent, merciless, even unconscious', can make onlookers awe.

But after all, not all onlookers can have such a mentality. This is the dignified mutual appreciation between * * *.

Looking for pink butterflies

"I was tired of squatting, so I sat on the ground gently, drinking water and smiling at these legendary butterflies-I could be so close to the legend." Long-term desire and pursuit, let us learn to appreciate: appreciate what we are chasing, but also appreciate ourselves that we can always chase.

Gorgeous dance under the starlight

"For silkworm moths, light is the biggest darkness they encounter and it is a dazzling trap." For people, the most dazzling is not necessarily the darkest trap.

Yan Niang is dancing.

"Yan Niang is a fragile and proud child of the stream. They carefully keep enough distance from people and cities. Once the stream is polluted, it will be destroyed and disappear without a trace. " What is the writer telling us through Yan Niang? Are our hearts still spinning with Yan Niang? Who will try to maintain a pool of "water" from being polluted for the sake of "Yan Niang"?

Poetic little net

"It's like accidentally breaking into a wonderful art exhibition. I squatted and stood, stopped and stopped, and marveled at myself from time to time. My movements are very careful and full of respect, for fear of accidentally damaging these exquisite works of art, which are really poetic nets. This morning's discovery changed my impression of cobwebs. Even if the cobwebs I met later were not so poetic, I could still read the ingenuity and imagination of the builders. " The beauty of insects brings us the same feeling, doesn't it? From then on, even if we meet a poet who doesn't look at insects, we will think that he must be good at expressing poetry through other things, right?

Think behind closed doors.

Accompanied by lines of words, happiness comes to me layer by layer. The pleasure of reading is nothing more than this: immerse yourself in the whirlpool constructed by the author intentionally or unintentionally, and feel that something naturally penetrates into our bone marrow through the skin, and then nourish our soul along the bone marrow.

Thoughts on Reading The Beauty of Insects (3)

"Curiosity changed everything. Many things around you will carry your color, your breath and even your heartbeat-if you pay attention to them curiously, love them. " -the author's language.

Are you upset that there are no other popular science books about insects to read except Insects? Then hurry to read the book "The Beauty of Insects"! The author with strong curiosity brought us a colorful insect world. When I happened to get this book, I only thought it was beautifully printed and immediately leafed through it. When you see the last page, my god! Isn't this a Swarovski crystal necklace? Why is there a picture of a crystal necklace in a book about insects? Look carefully, it turned out to be a spider web covered with crystal dew, and I can't wait to have a look at this strange insect book. From the very beginning, I was awakened by these poetic names: The Covenant of Spring, Life in a Pond, and Gorgeous Dance under the Starry Sky. The author .......................................................................................................................... is both a poet and an insect photographer, and his mind will be more delicate and sensitive than ordinary people. Otherwise, how could he capture those subtle moments? That beautiful picture is the best proof. For the first time in my life, I feel that ordinary bugs that even startled me are so worthy of appreciation!

"Little Lantern in the Dark"-Fireflies are one of the essential props from costume dramas to modern romantic dramas. As we all know, fireflies, nicknamed "Little Lantern" by the author, dance in the dark in order to find their own love. There are thousands of luminous cells in their bellies. Every night during courtship, the hidden things in their bodies will be oxidized, producing those faint fluorescence. Fireflies just didn't expect that these tiny lights not only wrote their own love songs, but also lit up the wisdom of human beings. Didn't there used to be people who studied hard at night by collecting fireflies as desk lamps?

"Heavy Butterfly" and "Looking for Pink Butterfly"-As we all know, the shells of insects are their "protective clothing", and they disguise themselves with patterns similar to those around them to prevent them from being discovered by the enemy. The author's "A Thousand Butterflies Moved" filmed in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, allows you to experience the perfect interpretation of the "Great Tibetan Dynasty". However, their pilgrimage is our city. In fact, the beautiful body of insects is not only a natural umbrella, but also enlightens people. Who can say that world-class design masters such as Versace and Valentino did not look for inspiration from them? Look at the Oscar ceremony. Many actresses try to dress brightly when they walk down the red carpet. Those elegant or playful evening dresses are the most important determinant. Look at those magical insects in the book again! I especially like moths, beautiful butterflies, dead-leaf butterflies, pointed butterflies and green-tailed swan cicadas, just to name a few. You have to sigh that nature is the real master of design. In fact, we can learn the common or brilliant collocation rules by studying these natural color collocators, which is much more useful than reading fashion magazines. Because the visual experience that people are willing to accept is the color matching that is in harmony with the surrounding environment, not those that feel abrupt. Of course, if you are determined to take the independent minority route, it is ok. Besides appreciating the butterfly patterns as proud as peacocks, we should also protect their homes so that their beauty can last. The author wrote in the book: "1892, American butterfly expert J.H.Leech discovered 136 species of butterflies in Chongqing and Hubei. Now, when I retraced the route of that year, I found that 97 species no longer exist." What an amazing data this is! Our damage to nature has been severely and irreversibly retaliated. I wonder how many butterflies the next generation can see.

The Mystery of Fabres —— In the author's opinion, it is because of overcoming the initial psychological barriers that hardcore insect lovers can enter the interesting larval world. In fact, many people are more or less afraid of insects with scales or fluff. The author explains that people are psychologically excluded because of the prejudice of their predecessors. Worms are like those ugly, but rich in connotation. As long as we put aside the external judgment on the surface, we can feel their kindness and beauty. Isn't the bell ringer in Notre Dame the best example? In this section, I especially recommend wax cicada. He recorded several encounters with moth wax cicada in detail and lamented that "the beauty created by nature is often miraculously passed to the heart through similar accidental encounters." How accidental it is, I believe everyone will know after reading it.

The Hunter's Spring and the Poetic Web-I believe everyone who has seen Spider-Man imagined that he would have super powers one day, even if he was ugly. How about wearing tights? Although you don't have to save the world, you can at least help people around you. In my opinion, just the magical webs woven by spiders are worth studying, because these webs are so unique and unique. In the author's eyes, spiders are comparable to wolves. "Good hunters are always lonely, brave and smart. All the surviving spiders have these three characteristics. " Maybe entrepreneurs who advocate wolf spirit can also learn something from spiders?

This book is suitable for designers, who can get inspiration from insect, the "most talented designer in nature" for modeling design and color matching.

This book is suitable for small white-collar workers. Their dry eyes will like the fresh green in the picture, which is more effective than "Letun" and "Runjie". Their tired hearts can also be massaged by those warm words, which are more refreshing than coffee and red bull.

This book is also suitable for children to read. On the one hand, we can learn the neglected popular science knowledge around us, learn more about our nature and learn to care for it. On the other hand, we can feel the benefits of taking part in outdoor sports. We can not only exercise, but also feel the family happiness from the outing mobilized by the whole family.

This book is actually very suitable for everyone who loves beauty and life. There are too many surprises in the book, depending on how many you can find. Rodin said: "There is no shortage of beauty in the world, only the eyes that find beauty." Follow the eyes of the author who is good at finding beauty, and we will also find our own beauty from his lens and words.