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June 6, 2022

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Catching Cicadas

When I was a child, one of the biggest fun was catching cicadas on summer vacations. We had three methods to catch them.

The first one is binding cicadas. Get a long and thin bamboo and a single ponytail (at that time every village had a few horses used to plow the farmland), then make the single ponytail into a retractable ring and attach one end of the ponytail to the thin end of the bamboo.

When you catch a cicada, use your two hands to hold the thick end of the bamboo and try to put the ponytail ring around the cicada's head. After that, pull back the ring and the cicada is captured.

The second one is to cover cicadas. Find an empty washing power plastic bag and a piece of iron wire. Use the wire to poke through the opening of the plastic bag and make it a round shape. Then attach another end of the wire to the thin end of the bamboo.

When you catch a cicada, just use the plastic bag to cover it and keep the opening of the bag downward and the cicada is captured.

The third method is to stick cicadas. Find some wheat flour and water to make a dough, then stir the dough repeatedly until it becomes very sticky.

When you want to catch a cicada, cover the thin end of the bamboo with the sticky dough and use the thin end to stick the cicada's wings.

Although living conditions in the past were very bad, we still had a lot of fun activities.

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When I was a child, one of the biggest funjoys was catching cicadas on summer vacations.

Journal

Catching Cicadas

When I was a child, one of the biggest fun was catching cicadas on summer vacations.

When I was a child, one of the biggest funjoys was catching cicadas on summer vacations.

We had three methods to catch them.

The first one is binding cicadas.

Get a long and thin bamboo and a single ponytail (at that time every village had a few horses used to plow the farmland), then make the single ponytail into a retractable ring and attach one end of the ponytail to the thin end of the bamboo.

When you catch a cicada, use your two hands to hold the thick end of the bamboo and try to put the ponytail ring around the cicada's head.

After that, pull back the ring and the cicada is captured.

The second one is to cover cicadas.

Find an empty washing power plastic bag and a piece of iron wire.

Use the wire to poke through the opening of the plastic bag and make it a round shape.

Then attach another end of the wire to the thin end of the bamboo.

When you catch a cicada, just use the plastic bag to cover it and keep the opening of the bag downward and the cicada is captured.

The third method is to stick cicadas.

Find some wheat flour and water to make a dough, then stir the dough repeatedly until it becomes very sticky.

When you want to catch a cicada, cover the thin end of the bamboo with the sticky dough and use the thin end to stick the cicada's wings.

Although living conditions in the past were very bad, we still had a lot of fun activities.

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