Author Editor of Xiao Shen of Kunshan Cricket Association
The Beginning
From the Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty - Tianbao period. According to the "Testament of Kaiyuan Tianbao", "Every autumn, the concubines in the palace catch crickets in small golden cages, close them in cages, place them on the pillow, and listen to their voices at night. "That is to say, at this time the crickets are just songbirds."
Therefore, crickets in the Tang Dynasty were only used by palace women and eunuchs to listen to the call to relieve boredom, and sometimes to fight, and then the people began to follow suit.
The first documentation of the fighting cricket is the Song Dynasty-Gu Wenxian's "Miscellaneous Records of Negative Xuan": "Wen Dou Sting also began in Tianbaojian, and the rich people of Chang'an skeletonized ivory as a cage and animals, with ten thousand gold to pay a peck, its comings and goings"
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From the Southern Song Dynasty
The best-known era of the breeding of the song insect fighting crickets was carried forward by Jia Xiangdao.
Jia Xiangdao is also called Jia Qiuyuan (he)
In the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty - Emperor Duzong Xianchun (1265), Jia Xiangdao compiled the original version called "Promoting Weaving", which is the world's first cricket genealogy that is still talked about.
Dang, the official position Pingzhang, after the alias Jia Qiuren (he)
At this time, Jia Xiangdao, around (1270) wrote a detailed insect genealogy called "Autumn Worm Spectrum", which was recorded in Xuande Ben, but it has disappeared.
Then the Southern Song Dynasty was extinguished
To the Yuan Dynasty,
Yuanren, jia Qiuyuan's "Autumn Worm Spectrum" was slightly changed to call the original mouthprint of the "Dingxin Image Classic", Hulin-Yuan Edition.
In the Yuan Dynasty, Kuizhangge (referring to the department), also known as Xuanwen Pavilion.
In March of the second year of emperor Yuanwenzong's calendar (1329), "Jiankui Zhangge in Ouchi", Emperor Yuanshun rebelled in the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1340), changed to Xuanwen Pavilion in 1341, and later changed to Duanbentang.
When he was still Kui Zhangge, the Yuan Dynasty compilers, in the name of Jia Qiuyuan (he), blindly wrote the insect spectrum and named it "Cricket Spectrum" in the southern Song Dynasty in 1273, which was actually a pseudo-cricket spectrum, borrowing the name of others to achieve themselves, not knowing that they were a layman, and they knew nothing about insects. Although this spectrum was manifested in the Qing Dynasty. Later generations also thought that Kuizhangge was a name for someone in the Qing Dynasty, but it was actually a department of the Yuan Dynasty. Because there were too many people who understood insects at that time, how could they pay attention to this miscellaneous book. With the passage of time, this miscellaneous book can survive until now, and it is also fate that should not be !!!
Then the Yuan Dynasty was extinguished
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In the Ming Dynasty,
In 1546 during the Ming Dynasty-Jiajing period, Jia Xiangdao's "Autumn Worm Spectrum", corrected by the resident Wang Qizhu, the step was virtually re-proofread, and the name "Republishing the Correct - Autumn Worm Spectrum" At this time, the purpose of the color classification was still to (green insects must be fine white bucket silk, yellow worm golden bucket silk, purple worm should be blood red bucket silk, alien insect finger bucket silk is different color like yellow non-white non-white insects in this kind of insect), of course, although there is not much content, but it is impossible to flow into the market, and the opportunities for posterity to see are few and far between. Even if someone gets it, it is a secret.
During the Ming Dynasty-Wanli period, Wang Qizhu participated in the second volume of the Dingxin Image Sutra, which was changed more. Because it is based on the song and yuan books, some things are added. At this time, the color classification began to be different in some places, but the problem was not serious!
During the Ming Dynasty-Wanli period, 2 people appeared in the middle of this period, one named Zhou Lujing and the other named Yuan Hongdao
Ming Dynasty - Wanli period (about 1570) Zhou Lujing claimed that the academics wrote things on the astronomy and geography, speaking of Zhou Lujing, this person seems to be an academic who understands everything, in fact, the academic is not refined, the Jia Xiang Dao, copied into Jia Xian Dao, to promote weaving, regardless of right or wrong, all copied, and then you find that the content inside is the same and repeated contradictions, do not know how to let people understand the color classification of insects. Zhou Lujing was the one who stirred up the muddy waters, which led to the later insect spectrum becoming more and more chaotic.
Yuan Hongdao was born in the second year of Longqing, that is, in 1568 AD, during the Ming Dynasty-Wanli Period, and entered the middle of the 20th year of the Wanli Calendar (1592). He lived only forty-three years, died in the thirty-eighth year of the Wanli Calendar (1610), and did not live out of the Wanli Dynasty. Yuan Hongdao's account is seen in Beijing, not heard, so it should be the situation in Beijing after the twenty years of the Wanli calendar to thirty-eight years ago, in the Gregorian calendar, it is Yuan Hongdao's "Essays" between 1592 and 1610 (1580), after being renamed "Promoting Weaving Zhi" by others, this person is called Tao Jue (ting), in the third year of Shunzhi, the level of cricket cultivation is not high, and the content of Liao Liao's few words basically has little practical value. Yuan Hongdao's record in the "Collection of Vases and Flowers" that "when the Beijing masters reached July and August, every family raised and promoted weaving, ... The pots of mud are all over the city, men and women, young and old, all of whom are happy to fight. "It can be seen that in the Ming Dynasty people loved fighting crickets.
During the period from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the 30th year of the Wanli Calendar to the sixth year of Chongzhen (1602-1633), Liu Tong, a jinshi who had experienced two dynasties, wrote the "Promoting Weaving Zhi" and estimated to be an ordinary insect fan, and the content was nothing, it was also a few words of Liao Liao
Then the Ming Dynasty was extinguished
To the Qing Dynasty
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty - Kangxi in 1688, Chen Minzi, a native of Hangzhou, wrote a book "Flower Mirror Crickets" estimated to be ordinary insect fans and did not write anything useful
Qing Dynasty - Kangxi Fifty-three Years 1714 Suzhou People Menggui, wrote a "Cricket Spectrum"
This man was very critical, according to the records of the Beijing Palace, a self-created cricket spectrum, which mentioned the use of traditional Chinese medicine to raise insects, and the book he wrote was burned in the second year of Guangxu (1876). I feel that personally this dream Guidang difference may be a eunuch's errands, there is a TV series called the legend of the Cricket King filmed from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, it is said that the eunuchs do not believe in other insect genealogies, so they themselves groped a set of cricket-raising experience in order to save their lives. And it is the eunuch who inherits the eunuch. The eunuch in the legend of the Cricket King is estimated to have been born around the year of Guangxu (1880), a Suzhou native, called Xuan Deshun entered the palace at the age of 8 and began to raise crickets at the age of 9, his skills are also taught by an old eunuch, this old eunuch is estimated to be the inheritor of Menggui, is it not written above? Engraved in the 2nd year of Guangxu. So these 2 people get together, and the time is also long. Xuan Deshun found that Menggui's insect composition was flawed, and then improved it himself, and when his generation belonged to the third generation of improvement, everyone could watch the TV series Of the Cricket King Legend and then rationalize the eunuch gate, and this TV series is not fictional, or that the cricket spectrum of the eunuch door is never complete, to the complete and then destroyed. The cricket king's stream fax is not real, and only those Jiangnan worm idiots in the 30s will know the truth. (Self-created color classification)
Qing Dynasty - Kangxi 1715, at this time a person began to muddy the waters again, a person named Jin Wenjin himself randomly copied and changed the insect spectrum, not counting, but also random annotations, well this based on Jin Wenjin's "Promoting Weaving Classic" appeared in many versions, the title is different, the content is the same, and it has been handed down to this day with greater influence. For example, the title of kangxi's 1715 deleted edition of the "Promoting Weaving Sutra" is exactly the same as that of Jin Wenjin, but the author is not the same person. There are serious differences in color classification.
In the Qing Dynasty - Qianlong year, Zhu Congyan wrote a worm genealogy of the "Aphid Sun Jian", which was re-formulated in 1776 during the forty-first year of Qianlong, and this composition had its own opinion, although the premise of the book emphasized that the green worm white bucket silk, the yellow worm yellow bucket silk, and the purple worm red bucket silk. But the notes in the book contradict themselves. Led to a divergence in the classification of fixed colors!! Make a word difference, a thousand miles of error, the classification of color is wrong, and posterity is wrong. For the contradictions, please refer to the "Republishing the Correct - Autumn Worm Spectrum" or the "Dingxin Image Sutra" Volume II, to know its source. (Mainly it is possible that you have not seen the written text of the "Autumn Worm Spectrum" or it may be caused by the printing error of others) The content is still good.
Qing Dynasty - Xianfeng eleventh year (1861), Lin Guang wrote a "Cricket Secret Essentials" worm genealogy This person also has a name called Shi Lian, and posterity will call his insect genealogy "Shi Lian Ben" or "Secret Essentials" The main content of the reference to Zhu Congyan's "Wangsun Jian" The previous score is definitely wrong
Qing Dynasty - Guangxu 1884 - 1892 Wuxi people Qin Zihui, known as the no boring Daoist, this person wrote the insect genealogy, really called the essence, there are "Gong Worm Record", "Wang Sun Jing Supplement" Its contents, are exquisite, and also a real practitioner. Reading its contents, it is deduced that although Qin Zihui has practical combat experience, he has not read the "Autumn Worm Spectrum", but due to the misleading of other insect scores, there are contradictions in the naming of insects in the "Gong Worm Record", and it is not easy to conclude by himself (green insects are all white bucket silk, yellow worm yellow bucket silk, purple worms want fine red bucket silk,) And Li Jiachun, by chance, obtained the "Wang Sun Jing Supplement" and wrote it based on this book: Cricket's Fighting Skills!
The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of Chinese insect culture and the history of fighting crickets.
Qing Dynasty - The last years of Guangxu: Cricket miscellaneous spectra, such as Yan Buyun, Qian Buseng, Fang Xu, Su Luxi, Zhao Xiongqing, etc. and so on....... Intricate, the social spectrum of crickets abounds!!!
Late Qing Dynasty - Xuantong (Puyi) 1909-1911
The Qing Dynasty was extinguished
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, October 10, 1911 - January 1, 1912 of the Minchu Dynasty, this time the court insect masters were in exile
Coming to the First Year of the Republic of China (January 1, 1912)
En Puchen's "Fighting Cricket Essay"
Between the 21st year of Guangxu and the 29th year of the Republic of China (1895-1940), 21 general insects in the Beijing Arena can be regarded as a sample survey, and the weight of the northern insects is basically (between 8 and 9%) of the large insects!!! Among them, there are 17 insects in Shandong, accounting for 81% of the total; only 4 insects near Gyeonggi. It can be seen from this that in the early days of the Republic of China, in the Beijing Arena, Shandong insects were fully dominant, and the rate of insects produced in Gyeonggi was significantly lower than that of Shandong insects. En Bochen's "Essay on Fighting Crickets" is about Wang Shixiang's friend's master's generation, Li Tonghua's master's name Nanshuai, and the classic battle example of the character Keqiu, known as Bai Lao, which generation of human worms. (1895-1940 Beijing Cricket Live)
In 1916, a cricket fan in Beijing, Hu Yaozu, wrote a book called "Cricket Experiments" about the ability to choose generals directly by using the platoon method if the level of fighting insects is not good
In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), Cao Jiajun wrote the "Commentary on promoting weaving", and "Autumn Worms" all belong to the Jinan Worm Spectrum (not much value)
In the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), Li Da Chong (chong) Yi Shisun wrote the "Cricket Genealogy" in 10 volumes, which belonged to the Tianjin Insect Genealogy. Xiao Zhou said that this worm spectrum is not bad. But Wang Shixiang said that this spectrum (the standard is not high, can not get the point), Mr. Bai Feng has read this spectrum, feel that this spectrum is not a good score!!! Its main content is still a copy of the "Oyster Sun Jian" spectrum. Moreover, it is also good at self-modification of the content to mislead everyone, and has a great impact on the players in the north and south after the reform and opening up, and most of the insect genealogies after the 90s are derived from this book. I am not talented, I have read this spectrum, and through practical argumentation, I also feel that this spectrum is biased
Yan Buyun's "Cricket Spectrum" of the Republic of China in 1936 did not enter the market. Its content is also Liao Liao numbers
But in this (1927-1937) II. The thirties was a warlord melee, and due to the influx of court bug masters, the level of fighting insects reached the highest period, most of the celebrities, rich children who love to play crickets, the family will hire a court bug master, and this era is also the most story of the era, but also the court bug master's sad and tortuous situation.
In the 1990s, it was also a topic that was often talked about by the elderly
The Republic of China was extinguished
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out
At this time, everyone is fleeing and no one is playing with insects (a few still have some)
In October 1949, the people of New China were founded, and at this time the playing insects began to rise again until 1965
From May 1966 to October 1976, the Cultural Revolution struck
Hundreds of cricket recipes of various kinds have been devastated during this 10-year period (most of the people who play with worms are sneaky with vegetable baskets to hide insects in friends' homes for fun)
The above ancient insect genealogy is estimated to have survived the Cultural Revolution, so that we can have Xin to see, and these credits are still attributed to the elderly Wang Shixiang to collect these cricket trees and organize them for future generations to study and explore.
Came to the 80s
Northern worm profile
Yan Buyun's first draft in January 1985 was issued from June to November 1986
Southern Worm Spectrum
Guan Liang's new cricket spectrum, released in July 1987, is a cricket anatomical diagram and has no practical value
Suzhou people (Zhou Hongdu, pen name Xiao Zhou): Xiao Zhou's secret cricket book issued in August 1989, its content is still of practical value, although the book emphasizes that the green insect white bucket silk, yellow worm bucket silk, purple worm red bucket silk. But the ancient score added at the end of the book contradicts the book. This has led to a divergence in the classification of fixed colors!!! It is mainly due to the incomplete content of the collected insect genealogy, which he himself clearly stated in the book. Until 1992, wang Shixiang's ancient insect spectrum came out, Xiao Zhou bought this book for the first time, and the later Bai Feng annotation for Wang Shixiang's ancient genealogy was published in 2013, Xiao Zhou added to Bai Feng that Wang Shixiang's ancient genealogy benefited a lot, but there were more incomprehensions, and the existing Mr. Bai Feng annotated for the sub-book was more easy to understand! In the 1989 book Xiao Zhou said that the main purpose is to keep people away from gambling, but in fact, it is just the opposite, and it has become a secret book.
In August 1990, Li Jiachun and Huo Guanghan were released at the same time.
Li Jiachun's book novice can be seen, the basis is written in the "Wang Sun Jing Supplement"
HuoGuanghan's book is not written for novices, and the color classification is sloppy, but the actual combat cases are all green insect white bucket silk, yellow worm yellow bucket silk, purple worm red bucket silk. In addition to the white purple is a white bucket silk, said to be a purple insect, according to the appearance characteristics of the insect should belong to the white door insect, Qin Zihui's ancient genealogy has recorded this insect, named purple white!
However, in the old book of fire, all the miscellaneous insects are classified as purple insects, which contradicts each other, and there are only three kinds of insects in the book of fire light. Blue, yellow, purple, but the end of the book also mentions the names of the insects of blue, yellow, purple, red, black, and white, and does not talk about descriptions. (My personal feeling is that I don't want newbies to step into the cricket world and make people retreat!!! But it disappointed the fire elder again, and everyone regarded this book as a treasure. Serious problems have come further to promote the divergence of color classification.
Wang Shixiang's ancient cricket genealogy of Chinese dynasties was first released in May 1992 and officially released in August 1993, this book is a strange book, most of the traditional characters are born and written, and it is difficult to understand the reality of culture.
The 2013 version of the traditional Chinese characters has been simplified, you can understand (recommended)
Tianjin Spectrum
Meng Zhaolian issued in July 1992
It was released in May 1995
Zhang Qi was originally released in July 1993 and December 1996
Like Bai Liang, Bai Feng belong to the insect spectrum after 2000, and there are many miscellaneous spectra that are not given one by one
In the above modern times, I personally feel that novices can first read Li Jiachun's books and Xiao Zhou's books are more understandable, and if they have the foundation, they will not be confused when they look at the books of HuoguangHan, because The books of Huoguang are not written for novices to read, but just talk about their own life experience.
Wang Shixiang's "Cricket Integration" contains a total of 17 ancient genealogies of the worm classics of the past, in fact, such as the modern Huoguang Han, Bian Wenhua, Li Jiachun, and so on, only one or two of the 17 ancient trees of the worm classics, and in their time, it was also difficult to obtain many ancient genealogies, because the conditions were limited!!! And the 17 books in the ancient genealogy are not all good genealogies, then what they obtain is not a good genealogy, the book written will mislead the world, the reason why we can now correct the chaos, the credit is still due to the old man Wang Shixiang collected and sorted out the ancient genealogy for everyone's reference and research and argument!!!! Bai Feng's Cricket Ancient Genealogy Commentary is to interpret Wang Shixiang's cricket book is OK, interested in studying insect genealogy, the above mentioned books can all be bought to see. (Books can only be references, step by step, and thinking in practice is the truth.) )
Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic of China, and modern times are all in place
If there is any lack of error, please also ask the majority of insect friends to criticize and correct