Zhongxin Online Haihai News, September 26 (Li YuYujun) The second Wild Insect Hall Cricket Championship with the theme of spreading the cricket culture of the Chinese nation and promoting insect science education was held in Shanghai on the 25th.
Crickets, also known as crickets, Chinese folk crickets, fighting crickets began in the Tang Dynasty, prevailed in the Song Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty became more and more exquisite. According to records, the Southern Song Dynasty's "Promoting Weaving Classics" was the world's first work on crickets. At that time, fighting crickets was not only a gambling means for a small number of people, but also a folk cultural life of people interacting with each other and cultivating their temperament with fishing, raising birds and planting flowers, which could reflect the Chinese people's calm and idyllic attitude towards life and the optimistic and open-minded spirit, and also spread the deep-rooted cultural concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Hosted by the Shanghai Natural Wild Insect Museum, a total of 8 teams and 64 crickets (crickets in 8 miles per team) participated in the competition, and finally decided the champion, runner-up and quarterly army. The organizers insist that the competition focuses on participation and strictly prohibits gambling, and is committed to combining traditional culture with folk entertainment, love of nature and insect science.
The game went through ups and downs, all sides were tense and hardworking... The competition ended in a tense, harmonious and cheerful atmosphere, and the organizing committee awarded awards and prizes to the winners and participating teams.
According to people in the entertainment industry, the autumn equinox arrives, crickets call, and the ancient folk entertainment activity "Fighting Crickets" has become one of the games that regain the tradition every autumn. Crickets in Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Shandong and other places are the mainstream in the market, and there are also many cricket players in Shanghai. The major flower and bird markets in Shanghai are full of tourists, cricket stalls are moving in front of people, and connoisseurs explain the methods and techniques of fighting crickets, attracting many insect merchants and insect fans.
Shanghai Natural Wild Insect Museum is located in Pudong Lujiazui Oriental Pearl, the venue area of more than 3,000 square meters, display more than 300 species, tens of thousands of living organisms and specimens, let people feel the water, desert, rainforest, islands, swamps and other different ecological environment, and the use of high-tech means to restore live insects and amphibians in the natural rainforest, lakes and other breeding environments, fully display the magical charm of nature. The museum integrates tourism, ornamentation and science education, and is the first science popularization exhibition hall in China to display live insects and amphibians and reptiles, and is known as the national science popularization education base. (End)
Editor: Yu Jun