Can Xue's Old Cicada has a strong allegorical meaning, which personified the animal and insinuated the reality of human society with the life experience and thinking of an old cicada. After eight years of underground life, the old cicada climbs up the branches, and spotless white, but it still has the responsibility and dignity of the leader. It has deeply practical concerns, and after the death of the old toad and a female cicada, it has an insight into the spirit of life, resolutely committed to die together with the old spider, and finally realized its own value. Although the body is extinct but the spirit is eternal, the sacrifice of the old cicada finally let the younger generation wake up. In the old memories, the old cicada has completed its spiritual return to his hometown. And allegory people who are satisfied with the status quo but do not think much about the progress of the fallen in the world,also the violent authority cannot defeat the strong original spiritual will.

Xue Hui. Spirit Returning to Hometown for an “Old Cicada”--Interpretation of Can Xue's Old Cicada. Frontiers in Art Research (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 8: 70-74. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2020.020812.

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