Arts Studies and Criticism

Cicadas chanting is an important theme in Lu You’s poems, which contains rich ideological and emotional connotation. The image of cicada that appears frequently in poems is not only the catharsis of Lu You’s feelings of the ruined country and destroyed family, wandering and homesick, but also the symbol of his noble and pride, leisurely, free and easy spirit, and the expression of his emotions when he chants history and nostalgia. The rich connotation of Lu You’s cicada chanting poetry creates an aesthetic realm of the integration of man and nature and the coexistence of emptiness and reality by means of placing feelings on things, image combination and cicada symbol, which forms a value construction from the artistic aesthetic level to the ideological and emotional level.