Capture cicadas
As a countryside kid, I had a lot of fun when I was young. An interesting thing I still remember now is capturing cicadas. There are three methods we used the most to capture cicadas. Let me show you guys briefly. One way was finding a horse’s ponytail and wound it to a flexible knot, then fixed it to the end of a bamboo pole, then you could tie cicadas everywhere. The other way was to find a used washing powder plastic bag and a thin piece of wire. Then wound the wire into a ring and used it to support the opening of the plastic bag. The next thing was to fix this assembly at the end of a bamboo pole, so you could use it to cover cicadas. The third way was to find some wheat flour and water, then mix them together and keep stirring until it became a sticky gluten. Then you put the gluten on the tip end of a bamboo pole, and then you could use it to stick cicadas. But remember, you should only stick to their wings. So when you saw a kid with a red belly in the summer in the countryside, that was because when he climbing trees to caught cicadas, the bark grazed his belly.