As a common insect, in the era of no mobile phone computer, watching clams fight, catching clams to fight, I believe it is one of the fun of many people's childhood, in fact, fighting cockroach as an entertainment activity, in our country has a very long history.
According to records, the activity of fighting clams first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, flourishing in the Song Dynasty, whether it is a high-ranking official or a street vendor, they are obsessed with it, and there are dozens of instruments related to fighting clams alone.
How is your dialect called 蛐蛐? How many have you heard about its name?
Little cockroach big name
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cricket
The word cricket is the most widely circulated and has a long history, and it was first seen in the Book of Poetry in the Western Zhou Dynasty:
"Crickets are in the church, and the years are not good." "July is in the wild, August is in Yu, September is in the house, and in October the crickets come under my bed." ”
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General Worm
The name of the general worm is closely related to the fighting cockroach, because the small cricket fights, quite a samurai style, can be regarded as the "great general" in the battlefield, so now people who play with the cockroach will still be called so.
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Promote weaving
The name "Promoting Weaving" appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it was a bit awkward to pronounce, but in fact, it was the same as the name of 蛐蛐, which was "proud of the sound", named by the sound.
"Crickets chirp, lazy women are frightened." There is also a saying that as soon as ancient women heard the call of crickets, they knew that autumn had arrived, not far from winter, so they had to seize the time to weave, which was the meaning of "promoting weaving".
The emperor loves jade and loves worms
Many people know that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji, created the ming dynasty, in fact, this Zhu Zhanji also has a nickname called "Cricket Heavenly Son".
Emperor Xuande Zhu Zhan loved to fight crickets, and even required the governor of Jiangsu at that time to pay tribute to the imperial court with 1,000 crickets every year, resulting in a sharp rise in the price of folk crickets, which was comparable to gold for a while, and the market was chaotic.
Although obsessing with cricket fighting can make people lose their minds and gamble, cricket culture also leaves us with an indispensable cultural heritage, such as:
Cricket jars, cricket poems, cricket carvings... They are all "mirrors" that allow us to observe history.
Crickets in the middle of the sound
People often say "leisure four things - flowers, birds, fish and insects", the "insect" here actually refers to the clam, and there are many jade carvings about insects in Hetian jade, and the cockroach is one of the most important ones.
If there is a cricket in the carving of Hetian jade, it can make people add imagination to the sound on the warm touch, and the jade listens to the autumn sound, which is full of artistic conception; and some jade carvers will borrow jade color to carve skillfully, and the crickets are exquisite and flexible, and they are natural.
If there are crickets in Wada Yuzhong, its meaning is also very good, because crickets are song insects, which means to become famous overnight (ming), fame and fortune.
Crickets are competitive, have an invincible momentum, as a general worm, "cricket" and "handsome" harmonic, so in Hetian Yuli, crickets mean that the work appreciation is smooth, invincible, and continue to open up.
There is a folk saying: "There are clams in the house, and the luck is great and the profit is great."
Because all things have spirits, although the moth is small, it also knows how to seek advantage and avoid harm, so the moth in the jade carving also has the meaning of wealth and peace.
Does the little cricket in this jade carving evoke your childhood memories?