Mr. Y from Taiwan said: "Overseas, when you hear crickets chirping at night, you will think that it is the one heard in the countryside of Sichuan."
It was the cricket whose steel wings flapped in the golden wind and jumped over The strait quietly descends from the sky above Taipei and lands in your yard. Singing every night is the same cricket that sang in "Bin Feng·July" sang in "Tang Feng·Cricket" and sang in "Nineteen Ancient Poems" I have sung it by Mulan's loom, I have sung it in Jiang Kui's words, I have sung it for the working man, I have heard it for the missing woman, I have sung it, it was that cricket by the post road in the mountains, I have sung it on the beacon tower of the Great Wall, I have sung it on the hotel patio. I have sung among the weeds on the battlefield, I have sung in the lonely living room, I have sung to the wounded soldiers, I have heard that it is that cricket that sings in your memory. The lantern falls on the fence, I think of the moon cakes, I think of the osmanthus, I think of the pomegranate fruit full of pearls, I think of the yellow leaves flying in my hometown, I think of the remaining lotuses in the wild pond, I think of the wild geese flying to the south, I think of the piles of haystacks in the fields, I think of my mother calling us back to put on more clothes, I think of the many, many years that have flown by secretly. It’s that cricket that sings across the strait. It sings on this side of the strait. It sings in an alley in Taipei. It sings in a village in Sichuan. It sings everywhere wherever Chinese people go. It’s more monotonous than the most monotonous music. The harmonious sound becomes more harmonious, it condenses into water, it is dewdrops that burn into light, it is a firefly that becomes a bird, it is a partridge that crows in the heart of the homesick person, it is that cricket singing outside your window, you are listening, you are missing me, you are listening to me. I'm chanting. You should guess what I'm chanting. I'll guess what you're thinking. Chinese people have Chinese mentality. Chinese people have Chinese ears