Editing Cicada (section)

=== In mythology and folklore ===
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[[File:Jade cicada amulets. Western Han Dynasty 206 BCE - CE 8.jpg|thumb|Jade cicada amulets. Western Han Dynasty 206 BCE – CE 8]]
Cicadas have been used as money, in folk medicine, to forecast the weather, to provide song (in China), and in folklore and myths around the world.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Cicada |url=https://www.britannica.com/animal/cicada |encyclopedia=Britannica |access-date=12 July 2015}}</ref> In France, the cicada represents the [[folklore]] of [[Provence]] and the Mediterranean cities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.notreprovence.fr/faune_cigale.html | publisher= Notre Provence | location=[[France|FR]] | title= La cigale, emblème de la Provence | language=fr | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315081430/http://www.notreprovence.fr/faune_cigale.html |archive-date=15 March 2009}}</ref>

The cicada has represented {{linktext|insouciance}} since [[classical antiquity]]. [[Jean de La Fontaine]] began his collection of fables ''Les fables de La Fontaine'' with the story "La Cigale et la Fourmi" ("The Cicada and the Ant") based on one of [[Aesop]]'s fables; in it, the cicada spends the summer singing, while the ant stores away food, and the cicada finds herself without food when the weather turns bitter.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chevrier |first=Irène |title=La Fontaine, fabuleusement inspiré par Esope – Un autre regard sur la Grèce |date=24 April 2007 |language=fr |url=http://www.la-grece.com/dotclear/index.php?2007/04/24/259-la-fontaine-fabuleusement-inspire-par-esope |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228053146/http://www.la-grece.com/dotclear/index.php?2007%2F04%2F24%2F259-la-fontaine-fabuleusement-inspire-par-esope |archive-date=28 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In Chinese tradition, the cicada ({{lang|zh|蟬}}, ''chán'') symbolises rebirth and immortality.<ref name=Riegel>{{cite web |last1=Riegel |first1=Garland |title=Cicada in Chinese Folklore (with bibliography) |url=http://www.insects.org/ced3/cicada_chfolk.html |publisher=Insects.org |access-date=24 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905142946/http://www.insects.org/ced3/cicada_chfolk.html |archive-date=5 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the Chinese essay "[[Thirty-Six Stratagems]]", the phrase "to shed the golden cicada skin" ({{zh|s=金蝉脱壳|t=金蟬脫殼|p=jīnchán tuōqiào}}) is the poetic name for using a decoy (leaving the exuviae) to fool enemies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thirty-Six Strategies|url=http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=36ji&no=21|publisher=Wengu|access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref> In the Chinese classic novel ''[[Journey to the West]]'' (16th century), the protagonist Priest of Tang was named the Golden Cicada.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Yu, Anthony C. Yu (trans.) |title=The Journey to the West |volume=I |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=1977 |page=14}}</ref>

In Japan, the cicada is associated with the summer season.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cicadas' Song: Japan's Summer Soundtrack |date=12 September 2014 |url=http://www.tofugu.com/2014/09/12/the-cicadas-song-japans-summer-soundtrack/ |access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> For many Japanese people, summer hasn't officially begun until the first songs of the cicada are heard.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.japan-experience.com/to-know/understanding-japan/cicadas |title=Cicadas |date=31 May 2017 |website=Japan Experience |access-date=11 November 2018}}</ref> According to [[Lafcadio Hearn]], the song of ''[[Meimuna opalifera]]'', called ''tsuku-tsuku boshi'', is said to indicate the end of summer, and it is called so because of its particular call.<ref name="Hearn2007">{{cite book |last=Hearn |first=Lafcadio |title=Shadowings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgvC9wIA9O4C&pg=PA85 |year=2007 |publisher=Cosimo |isbn=978-1-60206-066-1 |page=85}}</ref>

In the [[Homeric Hymns|Homeric ''Hymn to Aphrodite'']], the goddess [[Aphrodite]] retells the legend of how [[Eos]], the goddess of the dawn, requested [[Zeus]] to let her lover [[Tithonus]] live forever as an [[Immortality|immortal]].<ref name="DuBois">{{cite book|last1=DuBois|first1=Page|title=Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks|date=2010|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0-674-03558-4|pages=51–53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VkIkmvHP30kC&q=cicada%20of%20Athens&pg=PA53}}</ref> Zeus granted her request, but because Eos forgot to ask him to also make Tithonus ageless, Tithonus never died, but he did grow old.<ref name="DuBois"/> Eventually, he became so tiny and shriveled that he turned into the first cicada.<ref name="DuBois"/> The Greeks also used a cicada sitting on a harp as an emblem of music.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16435670 |title=The Cicada|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=21 January 1928 |access-date=7 June 2013 |page=21 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

In Kapampangan mythology in the [[Philippines]], the goddess of dusk, Sisilim, is said to be greeted by the sounds and appearances of cicadas whenever she appears.<ref name="auto17"/>