When you see the title of "chicken cow turtle", "chicken cow" in two words, I guess I estimate we must call it what it is. We put this place "cicada" larvae called "chicken cow turtle", the "cicada" adults called "chicken cow." When I want to code these words, I always think, why cicada larvae and adult called "chicken bull", "chicken cow turtle." The source of cicadas, habits, etc. No matter what aspect of "chicken", "cow", "turtle" These three animals are a little bit of nothing to do, but this was the name for a combination of Hinako three animals it really baffled.

In our local, cicadas there should be two varieties, one is the emergence of the summer, we also say normal cicadas. Another early autumn will have, this will be much smaller than the common varieties of cicadas head, but called voice was very large. We cicada emergence of early autumn called "cool autumn", the word is well understood, '' the cool autumn 'a call, the weather cools slowly. "

Our town is located in a hilly top of geology are "hillock", very few trees around town, so there is much less cicadas. But with us across the river four Township was "sandy land", land water particularly large, particularly planting trees, so one summer, cicadas also special. Of course, I'm talking about a child, now four Township cicada is also very less.

Several uncle lived in the four Township, "across the thousands of miles away", although it is across the river to run a few miles on the road to the uncle, but a child transportation is not convenient, across the river are the kind of small wooden boats, a go so uncle also will live on for two days.

A child to play favorite uncle is the "plane" chicken cow. In broad daylight, you find on the ground around the big tree, there are even smaller than a grain of rice to find the hole when lightly with a hoe in a cut above, it will reveal even thicker than a finger hole. This time if you use your finger into it, they would run into "chicken cow turtle", and then hoe to dig the soil above it, you can take it out. Small half-day down several small partners, we should be able to "dig" into a two hundred.

Color black day off, you can take on a flashlight to look for. This time going back shell of the "chicken cow turtle" will climb out of the hole in the trunk of the tree, the fence will climb a lot. Especially rainy nights climbed out of the back shell of the "chicken cow turtle" particularly large, there is no back shell, there is an extractor, there are just quit shell. Just exit the shell of the body is yellow, the body is relatively soft. I remember one time my aunt to sister to sister wanted a card, my sister let her "chicken cow turtle" to change. The results took a pot full the next morning, a full three four hundred.

Cicada larvae and adults are only just hatched can eat, or because the family was poor childhood, eating is also very simple. The Zhuolai "chicken cow turtle" or "" chicken cow "after clean, taking a dip in a night with a touch of salt, fried the next morning to eat. At that time not reluctant fried, take too much oil. Oil fried when they have to use a spatula to flatten, so that it can be thoroughly fried, it tastes crisp all the reason a child or small snacks, fried "chicken cow turtle" has become an essential childhood delicious.

Township now four or Shumao such as forests, but "chicken cow turtle" but a lot less of. Our small towns have a lot of people driving at night in the past to catch a night harvest is a dozen, enough to catch several evenings a family eat. The other is the more dangerous, more snakes. To a person because of the night to catch the "chicken cow turtle" and was bitten by a snake, to Nanjing to rescue, but fortunately rescue came. Now age like ours at night to catch the "chicken cow turtle", and not just to eat, I mainly want to experience the joy of childhood.

In China, as long as you eat, may all be eating extinct. Now "chicken cow turtle" less and less, we do not have the supply on the market demand, so farming will have. Currently our prices have to a dollar, if made into finished eating, a nearly 2 dollars a.