Crickets are invertebrates, Insecta, Orthoptera and Cricket superfamily. Also known as promoting weaving, commonly known as cricket, nocturnal singing insect (because it sings at night), general insect, autumn insect, cockfighting, promoting weaving, ground horn, stove chicken, Sun Wang, soil thorn, "monk" is the name of cricket before it gives birth to wings. According to research, cricket is an ancient insect with a history of at least 65.438+0.4 billion years.
Cricket fighting, also known as "autumn prosperity" and "fighting to promote weaving", is an entertainment activity for crickets to fight for fun. It has a history of 8900 years among the people. Cricket fighting was recorded as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties. Gu's Miscellaneous Notes on Negative Exposure said: During the reign of Tang Tianbao, people in Chang 'an fought cricket, "Carve ivory and raise it as a cage, and pay all the money for the bird's beak." During the Southern Song Dynasty, Jia Sidao, the prime minister of crickets, compiled the Book of Promoting Weaving, which was the first book on crickets in the world. Later, cricket fighting culture spread to modern society. In 1950s and 1960s, cricket fighting was labeled as "old culture". After the reform and opening up, with the development of social economy, cricket fighting has been revived and developed in some places.
Crickets are almost widely distributed all over the country, so there is also the custom of fighting crickets in many places. Sidian Town, Ningyang County, Tai 'an, Shandong Province is a famous cricket-fighting town in China. The local crickets have heads and feet, big teeth and fierce and aggressive characters. In the eyes of people who love this activity, crickets here have always been their favorite. A high-level cricket can even be sold for more than100000 yuan, and the price is comparable to that of Huang Jingui. A merchant in Tianjin bought a cricket in Ningyang, Shandong, and spent 1 10000. But this price is obviously not in line with market rules. Then, can we guess that a cricket, commonly known as the "Hundred Days Insect", originally had no cost and no collection value. If it lived to make money in winter, it would suddenly be fired to this extent. Will there be any stories hidden behind it that outsiders don't know?
Cricket fighting, a kind of "life-and-death" outcome, often makes this activity related to gambling, and the speculative mentality of gamblers is often behind the high-priced crickets. None of the buyers who spent a lot of money just listened to the cricket's cry quietly, and none even just entertained themselves and had fun. Nobody will spend a lot of money to lose money. Everyone who spends money wants Qian Shengqian. More people buy and sell cricket with a gambler's mentality, just like betting on jade. No one knows whether tens of millions of crickets will be killed by other crickets. Only "winning" is the value of cricket.
People engaged in cricket economy are divided into four categories: the first category is cricket catchers, mostly local farmers, who catch crickets in the wild and then sell them; The second kind is traders, who know crickets better. If they spend hundreds of dollars on a cricket, they can sell it at a high price. The third category is cricket breeders, who can train crickets well and are usually invited to raise crickets and respected; The fourth category is cricket-fighting people, some of whom are recreational and some are gamblers who can spend a lot of money. And every year in the "insect season", men, women and children in the main cricket producing areas will put down their work and go to the fields to grab crickets. For them, seizing these two months can earn 40 thousand to 50 thousand, which may be more impressive than a year's hard work. The author believes that the cricket business is so hot and the profit is so high that a cricket with more than ten dollars can be sold to hundreds of thousands, all because of cricket gambling.