{"id":3862,"date":"2026-09-03T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:41:27","slug":"simbolisme-tonggeret-budaya-tiongkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/cicada-symbolism-chinese-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Simbolisme Tonggeret dalam Budaya Tiongkok: Giok dan Makna"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3862\" class=\"elementor elementor-3862\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-adc18d7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"adc18d7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e01c71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e01c71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Quick Answer: What Does the Cicada Symbolize in Chinese Culture?<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"p1\">In Chinese culture, the cicada can symbolize rebirth, moral purity, elite status, summer, grief, or a short life\u2014but never all of these at once. Its meaning depends on the object, period, and text around it.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Funerary transformation:<\/strong> Han jade cicadas placed at or near the mouth expressed hopes for the deceased\u2019s continued existence and transformation.<sup>[1][2]<\/sup><\/li><li><strong>Integrity and purity:<\/strong> Classical writers turned the cicada\u2019s high perch, clear voice, and imagined diet of dew into a model of an uncorrupted scholar.<sup>[5][6]<\/sup><\/li><li><strong>Rank and refinement:<\/strong> Cicada-shaped attachments on certain ancient crowns belonged to elite dress and could signal status, alertness, or cultivated conduct.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/li><li><strong>Season and human emotion:<\/strong> A calling cicada may mark summer, while an autumn or winter cicada can evoke decline, silence, frustration, or the limits of life.<sup>[1][8][9]<\/sup><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p1\">A lone cicada is therefore not automatically a symbol of longevity, luck, wealth, promotion, or supernatural protection.<\/p><div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 230px; top: -4.75347px;\"><div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06679af e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"06679af\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2af274a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2af274a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">A cicada does not carry one fixed meaning in Chinese culture. A Han-dynasty jade cicada placed at the mouth of the deceased belonged to a funerary system concerned with bodily preservation and hoped-for rebirth. Centuries later, poets used the insect\u2019s high perch and supposedly pure diet to describe moral independence\u2014or its fading autumn voice to express frustration and grief.<sup>[1][2]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These images share an insect but not a single symbolic code. To interpret a cicada correctly, first ask when the object was made, what it was used for, whether it was found in a tomb, and whether a poem or surrounding scene changes its meaning. That contextual method also applies across the wider field of <a href=\"\/chinese-animal-symbolism\/\">Chinese animal symbolism<\/a> and the larger system of <a href=\"\/chinese-symbols-and-meanings\/\">Chinese symbols and meanings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Why Did the Cicada Become a Symbol of Rebirth and Purity?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">The two best-known meanings arose from different ways of reading the insect\u2019s life. A cicada nymph develops underground, climbs a plant or tree, and molts into a winged adult, leaving an empty shell behind. Ancient observers could see emergence and the abandoned casing but did not have modern entomology\u2019s explanation of insect development. The visible sequence invited a human analogy: an old body could be shed and a new form could rise from the earth. In Han funerary culture, that analogy helped make the cicada suitable for jade objects placed with the dead.<sup>[1][2]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The biological event is molting, not resurrection. Cicada species also have different life cycles, so the famous 13- and 17-year schedules of North American periodical cicadas should not be presented as the scientific foundation of ancient Chinese symbolism. What can safely be said is that cicada nymphs live underground, feed on plant xylem, emerge, and molt before the brief adult stage.<sup>[4]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Purity came from literary imagination rather than burial practice alone. Writers pictured cicadas high in trees, taking only clear dew and avoiding ordinary grain. That diet was morally attractive because it suggested a person untouched by material greed. Real cicadas do not live on dew: both nymphs and adults draw xylem fluid from plants.<sup>[4]<\/sup> \u201cDrinking pure dew\u201d should therefore be read as poetic personification. It created an ethical language for integrity, restraint, and distance from a corrupt world, not a biological description or a universal meaning attached to every cicada image.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How Cicada Symbolism Changed Across Chinese History<\/h2>\n\n<h3>Early Cicada Motifs Before Han Funerary Meaning<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cicada forms appeared on bronzes and jades before the Han dynasty, but early appearance does not prove one continuous symbolic meaning. On an ancient vessel, weapon fitting, or ornament, the insect may have been decorative, connected with ritual display, or recognized as a conspicuous seasonal creature. Without an inscription, reliable findspot, or associated burial arrangement, more specific claims remain uncertain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This distinction prevents a common historical shortcut. The Han association between a mouth cicada and hoped-for transformation cannot simply be projected backward onto every Shang or Zhou cicada pattern. Nor does a stylized early motif by itself prove a cult of the cicada, a fixed summer calendar sign, or a belief in resurrection. In early objects, \u201ccicada motif of uncertain ritual or decorative function\u201d is often more accurate than an attractive but unsupported story.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Han Jade Cicadas and Burial Beliefs<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Han dynasty, from 206 BCE to 220 CE, provides the clearest material link between jade cicadas and funerary transformation. The Asian Art Museum\u2019s nephrite cicada B60J583 was made for burial and placed on the tongue. Such pieces were used alongside jade coverings and plugs for bodily openings, within a broader system intended to retain vital energy and resist decay.<sup>[2]<\/sup> Another Han nephrite cicada, object 30.120.135 at The Met, confirms how refined and abstract this small jade form could become.<sup>[3]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The combination carried several layers of meaning. Jade suggested durability, purity, beauty, and elite material value; the cicada\u2019s emergence and shed casing suggested a new state after confinement underground. Together they could express the living family\u2019s hope that the deceased would be preserved and continue in a transformed existence.<sup>[2]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These were historical beliefs, not demonstrated effects. A jade mouth piece did not actually prevent decomposition or cause resurrection. It is also more precise to say that mouth cicadas were used with systems of body coverings and orifice plugs than to call every cicada one of a standardized \u201cnine plugs.\u201d Funerary arrangements varied, and an object\u2019s excavation record matters more than a modern label.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Cicadas in Elite Dress and Later Decorative Art<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cicadas also entered a separate world of dress. Ancient rulers and high officials could wear headgear carrying a gold cicada image with prominent eyes. In that setting, the insect\u2019s elevated position and alert appearance were linked to refinement, modesty, awareness, and high status.<sup>[1]<\/sup> Lu Yun\u2019s Western Jin\u2013dynasty Rhapsody on the Cold Cicada developed a related moral scheme: the insect embodied literary refinement, purity, incorruptibility, frugality, and reliability. The text offered the cicada as a model for a gentleman who served in office.<sup>[6]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This did not make every cicada ornament an official badge. A crown attachment documented within court dress is different from a pierced pendant, a later antiquarian carving, or a naturalistic insect painted on a fan. In later <a href=\"\/chinese-symbolism-in-clothing\/\">Chinese clothing symbolism<\/a>, the meaning still depends on who could wear the object and on the rules governing that particular form. A modern cicada necklace cannot inherit an ancient office merely by copying the silhouette.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Jade Cicada, Pendant, Crown Ornament, and Natural Cicada: What Is the Difference?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Shape is only the first clue. Provenance, wear, perforation, material, scale, associated objects, and the original location on a body all help identify a cicada object. This is especially important when reading <a href=\"\/jade-meaning-chinese-culture\/\">jade in Chinese culture<\/a>, because material symbolism does not establish an artifact\u2019s function by itself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\"><table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Cicada type<\/th>\n<th>Useful identification clues<\/th>\n<th>Primary function<\/th>\n<th>Meaning that may fit<\/th>\n<th>Do not assume<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Naturalistic cicada<\/td>\n<td>Shown on a branch, fan, album leaf, or flower-and-insect scene<\/td>\n<td>Observation and decoration<\/td>\n<td>Summer, autumn, sound, or natural beauty<\/td>\n<td>Rebirth, rank, or longevity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Early cicada motif<\/td>\n<td>Stylized form on an early bronze, jade, or fitting; limited context<\/td>\n<td>Ritual or decorative use may be possible<\/td>\n<td>Meaning remains dependent on provenance<\/td>\n<td>All early motifs anticipated Han funerary belief<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Funerary mouth cicada<\/td>\n<td>Secure tomb context and documented placement at or near the mouth; often no practical suspension arrangement<\/td>\n<td>Burial treatment<\/td>\n<td>Preservation, transition, and hoped-for rebirth<\/td>\n<td>A talisman intended for the living<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cicada pendant<\/td>\n<td>Suspension hole, wear pattern, necklace context, or documented use as jewelry<\/td>\n<td>Personal ornament<\/td>\n<td>Beauty, moral aspiration, antiquarian taste, or a chosen modern meaning<\/td>\n<td>Every pendant was once a mouth piece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cicada crown attachment<\/td>\n<td>Associated crown hardware, elite regalia, or a documented official-dress context<\/td>\n<td>Court and status display<\/td>\n<td>Rank, alertness, modesty, or cultivated conduct<\/td>\n<td>Any cicada jewel promises promotion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">No single visual test is decisive. An unperforated cicada might be funerary, unfinished, damaged, or designed for another setting. A perforated example may still come from a tomb as a personal possession buried with its owner. A museum\u2019s excavation record and classification deserve more weight than a seller\u2019s claim based only on holes or color.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Cicadas in Chinese Poetry: Purity, Integrity, Grief, and Short Life<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cicada became unusually rich in literature because its voice, position, season, and shed skin could all be turned into human metaphors. These literary meanings are central to <a href=\"\/chinese-symbolism-in-art\/\">cicada imagery in Chinese art<\/a>, especially when a painting includes a poem or alludes to a known text. They do not, however, turn every painted insect into the same moral emblem.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The Cicada as a Model of Moral Integrity<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the Records of the Grand Historian, the biography of Qu Yuan praises him through the image of a cicada shedding itself from filth and moving beyond the dusty world. The comparison does not describe an actual insect habitat. It presents Qu Yuan as a person who remained clean despite political corruption.<sup>[5]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lu Yun later organized that ideal into the cicada\u2019s \u201cfive virtues.\u201d Its head resembled formal headwear and suggested refinement; its imagined breath or dew diet suggested purity; its avoidance of grain suggested incorruptibility; its lack of a nest suggested frugality; and its seasonal regularity suggested trustworthiness.<sup>[6]<\/sup> The list is a moral construction in which each observed or imagined trait becomes a virtue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yu Shinan\u2019s Tang poem Cicada made the association even more memorable. The insect drinks clear dew, calls from a sparse parasol tree, and is heard far away because it occupies a high place\u2014not because the autumn wind carries its reputation. The poem is commonly read as a compact claim that genuine character can make itself known without borrowed influence.<sup>[7]<\/sup> Here the cicada signifies self-possession and integrity, not funerary rebirth.<\/p>\n\n<h3>When the Cicada Expresses Frustration, Autumn, or Mortality<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The same literary tradition could reverse the emotional tone. In Cicada in Prison, Luo Binwang addresses an autumn cicada while confined. Heavy dew hampers its flight and strong wind buries its sound; the unheard insect becomes a vehicle for the poet\u2019s claim that his innocence and integrity are not recognized.<sup>[8]<\/sup> Purity remains part of the image, but the section\u2019s emotional center is persecution, powerlessness, and grief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other contexts make the cicada a sign of seasonal decline. Its strong summer call can mark heat and abundance, whereas a weak autumn voice or a silent \u201ccold cicada\u201d may suggest fading life, separation, or fear. Zhuangzi supplies an even sharper limit to the claim that cicadas represent longevity: the huigu, often translated as a short-lived cicada, does not know spring and autumn. It illustrates restricted lifespan and perspective rather than enduring life.<sup>[9]<\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The apparent contradiction is useful. A funerary cicada can express hope for continuity after death, while a literary cicada can emphasize how little time a living creature has. Readers looking for established <a href=\"\/chinese-symbols-for-longevity\/\">Chinese symbols of longevity<\/a> should not treat the cicada as an all-purpose member of that category.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What Do Cicada Idioms and Literary Allusions Mean?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chinese expressions use the cicada for strategy, danger, silence, and transcendence. Their meanings come from the action described in the phrase, not from a master list of cicada symbolism.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\"><table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Expression<\/th>\n<th>Literal image<\/th>\n<th>Meaning in context<\/th>\n<th>Interpretive boundary<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u91d1\u8749\u8131\u58f3, j\u012bn ch\u00e1n tu\u014d qi\u00e0o<\/td>\n<td>A golden cicada leaves its shell<\/td>\n<td>Preserve an outward appearance while secretly escaping or substituting something else<\/td>\n<td>A strategy of withdrawal, not proof of reincarnation.<sup>[10]<\/sup> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u87b3\u8782\u6355\u8749\uff0c\u9ec4\u96c0\u5728\u540e, t\u00e1ngl\u00e1ng b\u01d4 ch\u00e1n, hu\u00e1ngqu\u00e8 z\u00e0i h\u00f2u<\/td>\n<td>A mantis catches a cicada while a bird waits behind<\/td>\n<td>A person pursuing immediate gain fails to notice a greater danger<\/td>\n<td>The cicada is prey, not an auspicious figure.<sup>[1]<\/sup> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u5664\u82e5\u5bd2\u8749, j\u00ecn ru\u00f2 h\u00e1n ch\u00e1n<\/td>\n<td>Silent like a cicada in cold weather<\/td>\n<td>Remain silent from fear, pressure, or caution<\/td>\n<td>A negative language image, not a rule for cicada art<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u8749\u8715, ch\u00e1n tu\u00ec<\/td>\n<td>A cicada sheds its casing<\/td>\n<td>Leave an old state, escape worldly constraints, or describe the discarded shell itself<\/td>\n<td>The exact meaning depends on philosophical, religious, or strategic context<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">These expressions should not be projected onto objects. A Han mouth cicada is not a diagram of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, and a naturalistic cicada painting does not automatically warn that danger is approaching from behind.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What a Chinese Cicada Symbol Does Not Automatically Mean<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Several popular explanations take one documented use and turn it into a universal rule. A more accurate reading keeps the following limits in view:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Not every cicada means immortality.<\/strong> Rebirth belongs most clearly to Han funerary contexts; seasonal paintings, poems, pendants, and idioms perform different jobs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not every jade cicada was placed in a mouth.<\/strong> A secure findspot and associated burial evidence matter more than shape alone. Perforation is useful evidence, not a verdict.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The cicada is not a universal longevity emblem.<\/strong> Some texts use a cicada to emphasize a short life or narrow perspective.<sup>[9]<\/sup> <\/li>\n<li><strong>It does not inherently promise luck, wealth, or protection.<\/strong> Those claims are common in contemporary product descriptions but are not a single historical Chinese system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A crown cicada does not make ordinary jewelry an instrument of promotion.<\/strong> Ancient status came from regulated dress and office, not from the insect\u2019s form alone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Color, count, direction, and placement have no universal code.<\/strong> There is no consistent premodern rule that an upward-facing, golden, or paired cicada changes fortune.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chinese and Japanese cicada imagery should not be merged.<\/strong> Japanese associations with summer sound and impermanence belong to their own historical and artistic settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">All claims about rebirth, purity, status, and transcendence describe cultural beliefs or artistic language. A cicada carving, image, or tattoo cannot preserve a body, extend life, attract money, or alter a career.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How to Interpret or Use a Chinese Cicada Symbol Correctly<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Use context in a fixed order before assigning a meaning:<\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li><strong>Identify the image or object.<\/strong> Decide whether you are looking at a living cicada, an empty shell, a painted motif, a complete carving, a pendant, or crown hardware.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Establish the date.<\/strong> Early decorative motifs, Han burial jades, medieval regalia, Tang poetry, later antiquarian pieces, and modern designs belong to different interpretive layers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Determine the function.<\/strong> A tomb furnishing, personal jewel, court attachment, album painting, poem, and logo do not share a default meaning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Check physical and textual evidence.<\/strong> Look for excavation records, original body placement, suspension holes, wear, matching fittings, inscriptions, titles, and poetic allusions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Assign one primary cultural system.<\/strong> Read the cicada first as funerary belief, elite dress, moral literature, seasonal nature, an idiom, or modern design. Add a second layer only when the evidence supports it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Separate historical meaning from present use.<\/strong> A designer may choose \u201cnew beginning\u201d for a logo or tattoo, but should label that as a modern interpretation rather than an ancient universal rule.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a museum, the catalog and archaeological record should lead. For jewelry, avoid accepting \u201cHan burial jade\u201d from appearance alone. In a modern <a href=\"\/chinese-tattoo-symbols-and-meanings\/\">Chinese cicada tattoo<\/a>, purity, release, renewal, or resilience can be meaningful personal choices, but there is no ancient tattoo canon governing color, direction, or number. The same standard applies to branding: cultural inspiration is legitimate, whereas claims of fortune-changing power are not.<\/p>\n\n<h2>FAQs About Cicada Symbolism in Chinese Culture<\/h2>\n\n<h3>Does Every Jade Cicada Come from a Burial?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">No. Some Han jade cicadas were placed at the mouth of the deceased, while other cicada carvings functioned as pendants or later decorative objects. Cicada crown attachments could be made in other materials, and even an ornament recovered from a tomb was not necessarily a mouth piece. A lack of suspension holes may support a funerary identification, but it cannot prove one. Provenance, findspot, wear, scale, and associated objects must be considered together.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Does the Cicada Symbolize Longevity or a Short Life?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">It can suggest continuity or shortness of life in different contexts. Han mouth cicadas expressed hope for transformation and continued existence after death. By contrast, Zhuangzi used a short-lived cicada to illustrate limited lifespan and knowledge, while autumn poetry could stress decline. The cicada is therefore not a universal Chinese longevity symbol.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Is the Cicada a Lucky Feng Shui Symbol?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is no single historical feng shui system assigning cicadas a wealth, protection, or placement function. Their strongest documented meanings come from funerary jade, elite dress, moral literature, seasonal art, and idioms. Modern rules about lucky colors, directions, or positions are commercial reinterpretations, and a cicada object has no demonstrated power to change fortune.<\/p>\n\n<h3>What Does a Chinese Cicada Tattoo Mean?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">A modern cicada tattoo may refer to moral integrity, release from an old state, resilience, or a new beginning. Those meanings can draw selectively on Chinese literature and the image of molting, but the design remains personal and contemporary. Ancient China had no unified cicada tattoo code, and no traditional color, number, or orientation guarantees luck or transformation.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">[1] Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.si.edu\/whats-on\/blog\/posts\/the-cicada-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cicada in China<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[2] Asian Art Museum. <a href=\"https:\/\/education.asianart.org\/resources\/cicada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cicada<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[3] The Metropolitan Museum of Art. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/42949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cicada, Han Dynasty<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[4] University of Florida IFAS Extension. <a href=\"https:\/\/ask.ifas.ufl.edu\/publication\/IN602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cicadas of Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[5] Chinese Text Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/shiji\/qu-yuan-jia-sheng-lie-zhuan\/zh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Records of the Grand Historian: Biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[6] Chinese Text Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/wiki.pl?chapter=98955&amp;if=gb&amp;remap=gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lu Yun: Rhapsody on the Cold Cicada<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[7] Wikisource. <a href=\"https:\/\/zh.wikisource.org\/zh-hant\/%E8%9F%AC_%28%E8%99%9E%E4%B8%96%E5%8D%97%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yu Shinan: Cicada<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[8] Wikisource. <a href=\"https:\/\/zh.wikisource.org\/zh-hant\/%E5%9C%A8%E7%8D%84%E8%A9%A0%E8%9F%AC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luo Binwang: Cicada in Prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[9] Chinese Text Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/zhuangzi\/enjoyment-in-untroubled-ease\/zh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zhuangzi: Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[10] Chinese Text Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/wiki.pl?chapter=477324&amp;if=gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thirty-Six Stratagems: Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jelajahi simbolisme tonggeret dalam budaya Tiongkok, dari giok pemakaman Han dan hiasan kepala kaum elite hingga puisi, makna hidup yang singkat, mitos umum, dan tato modern.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-symbols-meanings","tag-animal-symbolism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}