蟋蟀在古书中写作“蛩”,是一种很像蝗虫而个体略小的昆虫,在各地有不同的叫法,常见的有蚰蛐、促织,上海周边地区则叫作“sai jie”,这只是一个方言读音,所以又有不同的写法,如上世纪30年代出版的《沪谚》收录的上海谚语有“口是风,笔是踪,(?)(?)无毛难过冬”(作者注:“(?)(?),音暂即,蟋蟀也。)又有些书中把它写作“嫌绩”、“赚蝍”等。 Cricket in the ancient book writing “蛩”, is a kind of grasshopper and slightly smaller individual insects, in different places have different names, common 蚰 蛐, knitting, Shanghai surrounding area is called “sai jie”, which It is just a dialect pronunciation. Therefore, there are different ways of writing. For example, the Shanghai proverb quoted in Shanghai Proverbs published in the 1930s has the following characteristics: “The wind is the wind, the pen is the trace, (?) : ”(?) (?), Tone is, crickets too.) And in some books it is written as“ Squatting, ”“ Earning, ”and so on.