By the middle of August of the year, liqiu has just passed, the early season corn in many parts of Shandong has begun to mature, even if the wheat stubble corn is growing well, at this time, in addition to the farmers who break corn and weed, there are also a number of "particularly mysterious" groups active in the farmland!
They are not like farmers who go to the fields during the day, but a dozen people ride a few farm trucks and do not start to be active in the fields until the evening, and they are usually not locals, and some even mostly speak with foreign accents; their working hours are concentrated in the evenings, and when you see this, do you think they are stealing corn? Actually, no, their job is mainly to catch crickets in the cornfield!
Living in the countryside of Shandong must have this experience, crickets are very common in the ground, can not say more than cattle hair, but can also do with the bend can easily catch one, it should be said that the number of crickets is too much, but these crickets can not only make money, in a certain place in Shandong, cricket trading market, a cricket sold up to 110,000 prices!
That is to say, a small cricket can be exchanged for a small ordinary family car, so the question is, since there are so many crickets in the field, it is certainly not possible to have every one so valuable, so what kind of crickets are worth money? Is it the reason for the breed or the size of the cricket? What is such an expensive cricket used for? Let's start with the 110,000 crickets.
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In fact, this cricket is in the "Cricket Town" title of Tai'an Ningyang County Trading Market trade, and not only this cricket sold at a good price, cricket trading has formed a famous industry in the local area, the annual output value as early as the previous years reached 600 million yuan, it can be said that for the local people to provide a very good way to generate income.
Ningyang cricket industry has a very long history, as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ningyang has a history of catching crickets, fighting crickets, to the Tang and Song Dynasties, Ningyang fighting crickets have risen on a large scale, until the Ming and Qing dynasties are more prosperous, modern to 1999, the local even set up a special cricket research institute, it can be said that Ningyang's cricket industry can be described as a long history, and orderly inheritance.
So why are ningyang crickets so famous? The reason lies in the unique natural environment conditions and geographical location of the Tai'an area.
The land in the Ningyang area of Tai'an City belongs to the calcareous brown soil layer, acidic and alkaline, and the local groundwater resources are relatively rich, the water level of wells in many places in the Tai'an Plain area is even only a few meters away from the ground, and the water quality is basically relatively hard, containing more minerals, it can be said that the climate, water resources, soil resources are particularly suitable for cricket growth.
In addition, the local summer is mainly based on the cultivation of corn, which naturally provides a better habitat for the growth of crickets.
The unique natural conditions make the area around Sidian Town in Ningyang County a paradise for crickets to grow, and the crickets that grow here are strong, brave and good at fighting, and are the winning generals in cricket fighting competitions.
Coupled with the fact that Anningyang in Shandong Province is located in the middle of Shandong, beijing in the north, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the south, this is even in ancient times, it is also the place where merchants from the south to the north pass, coupled with the excellent quality of the crickets here, naturally attracting merchants from the north of the South China Sea to buy crickets, so in ancient times, the most famous and mature cricket trading market in the country was formed.
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When seeing that crickets in Ningyang, Shandong Province, can sell for up to 110,000, some people must think that this is a unique cricket variety in Ningyang, but this is not the case.
In our country, there are three main varieties of crickets
1. Fighting crickets
2. Beijing oil gourd
3. Large flathead cricket
And the crickets traded in Ningyang belong to the fighting crickets.
And even in Ningyang, there is more than one kind of cricket that can sell at a high price, if it is subdivided into more than 260 varieties in 6 categories such as blue, yellow, purple, red, black and white. The reason why it is so expensive is mainly because of the unique soil conditions in Ningyang, resulting in different varieties of crickets can basically grow strong, fierce and aggressive, so catching crickets in the local area is mainly to see the specific size of crickets.
So what type of cricket is valuable? Let's summarize a few aspects of the selection:
1, we know that in the process of cricket fighting, the role of the head is quite large, so when catching crickets in the wild, the larger the head, the better, which means that the crickets are more robust and have a greater advantage when fighting.
2, in addition to the head is large, the color and shape of the head also have requirements, generally require the top of the head to be polished, and it is round. If it is a small pointed head, it is a defective product.
3, crickets must be sharp and sharp, which is also a favorable weapon for crickets in fighting.
4, the color of the teeth is best gold or purple, and pink, pig liver color, brown and other colors of crickets fight is generally weaker, which should be the local cricket catcher in the long-term process of catching crickets to get experience.
5, crickets in the ground will bark, good crickets call bright and short intervals, which means that the combat effectiveness is stronger, and if the cricket's head is not raised when chirping, it is better, because this posture is easier to flip the other party when fighting!
To sum up, even if there are many crickets growing in the fields of Ningyang, not every cricket can sell at a high price, which also requires the eye speed and selection skills of cricket turners, which is also a technology in a sense. The reason why the crickets in Ningyang are famous is related to the unique local soil conditions and the hardness of the water, forming a "strong body, brave and good at fighting" crickets, and also belongs to the side of the water and soil to raise the other side of the "crickets".