Fighting crickets are also called "Autumn Xing", "Dou Promoting Weaving", and "Dou Crickets". Entertainment with cricket fights. It is endemic in most parts of the country. Held every year in late autumn.
Chinese cricket culture, with a long history and a long history, is a unique cultural life of China with strong oriental colors, and it is also Chinese art. In ancient times, from the relatives of the emperor and the state, to the dignitaries and dignitaries, down to the small people of Dousheng and the people of Pingtou, they all flocked to this small insect. Fighting crickets has not only become a well-known entertainment game, but also penetrated into the long-standing culture and art of the Chinese nation, and folk stories about crickets such as Jigong Dou Crickets have been circulating in China for hundreds of years. In the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Flags disciples who did not have to work and were idle pushed its breeding and fighting to the extreme, coupled with a gamble of thousands of dollars, which made the value of this small insect increase sharply, and also added a mysterious veil, which was really thousands of people.
The ancients recorded the story of a cricket-headed golden rooster. The story goes that the quasi-cricket leader defeated the strong enemy and was flapping his wings and sounding triumphantly. Suddenly, a golden rooster heard the sound and pecked at it suddenly. Fang Shou was alert and jumped out of the ruler. The chicken chased again, and saw that the square head was already under the claw. The present is sweating, and the search is fruitless. But seeing the golden rooster stretching its neck and shaking its crown, clucking and screaming, unable to help itself, Fang saw that Fang Shou had jumped on the crown and was unable to release it, forcing the golden rooster to lose. This story is naturally exaggerated, but it writes the spirit of crickets who are not afraid of strong enemies. It is no wonder that its winners often win the nicknames of "iron gun", "fearless", and even "great general", "mighty general", "worm king" and so on. Anyone who has witnessed cricket fighting knows that the brave spirit of crickets is no less than that of male birds and beasts.
Fighting crickets mainly originate in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin in China. The real cricket production area is famous for the Qilu Great Plain in Shandong, and Ningjin County in Shandong is the jewel in the crown of the cricket king, the crickets of the Ningjin species have large heads, large necks, large legs, and good skin color, while the Ningjin crickets and the insects in the arid areas of the north have the physique, tenacious fighting, endurance, fierceness, and undefeated ferocity. Therefore, in recent years, in the national cricket competition, the crickets of Ningjin species have won many championships. In history, the Ningjin cricket was a famous tribute place for the emperors of the past, and there was a folk tale and legend of the Ningjin cricket fighting Cixi in history.
Crickets are very adaptable to growth, and as long as there are places where weeds grow, crickets may grow and survive. If you require crickets to grow roughly strong, the skin color is good, and the geology, landform, terrain is very exquisite. Ancient books say that the northern hard and spicy insects are born on the high slopes of the standing soil, which shows that the topography and landform are very related to the development and physique of crickets. Many books also mention that most of the pale insects in the dark soil are good at fighting, and the dark insects in the light soil must be fierce.
The development of crickets from the original listening to their voices to the current observation of their struggles, from this small aspect, illustrates the progress of social and historical development. As for which dynasty the activity of fighting cockroaches originated, there is still no data to prove that in the Zhao and Song dynasties, the wind of fighting crickets was vigorously promoted inside and outside the government and the public, and "the capital of ten thousand gold was paid in one peck", which is a historical fact.
In short, fighting crickets began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the activities became more and more exquisite, and the first crickets required no "four diseases" (head lifting, tendrils, teeth training, kicking legs) The appearance color was also distinguished by respect and inferiority, "white is not as good as black, black is not as good as red, red is not as good as yellow". The body is male and athletic. Crickets fight each other, to pick the weight and size of the same, with steamed special japanese calamus or horsetail mane to lead the bucket, let them blow each other, after several confrontations, defeated retreat, victorious wings long song. In the old days, towns, markets, and casinos with cricket fighting have been abolished, but the people still retain this entertainment. This activity has always been widely loved by people, and has been rising for a long time, showing a trend of year after year.