4hw.org: the weather is getting colder, the autumn grass is yellow, and the cricket market is becoming more and more popular. Recently, a small town in Shandong Province has attracted national attention. Because the town's characteristic product is cricket. By selling this thing, the town attracts hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It is reported that the cricket with the highest price this year is sold at a daily price of 50000 yuan. Why can crickets be sold so expensive? What's the use of crickets? Let's take a look at it together Right.
August 17, 2017, Tai'an, Shandong. Holding 1600 yuan in cash, the farmer's face blossomed happily, while the insect collector hid the cricket just bought at the bottom of the box like finding treasure. After the beginning of autumn, similar scenes appear repeatedly in the streets of sidian in Ningyang almost every day. In addition to a villager in caojia village who sold a cricket for 15000 yuan, other villagers sold the cricket caught for 50000 yuan. With this "high price" cricket, it's not hard to understand why local villagers rush into the field to catch crickets every season. It is reported that this small cricket can bring at least 100 million income to the local area every year.
After the beginning of autumn, sidian ushered in the busiest season of the year. In the streets and fields, villagers carrying baskets and peddlers holding cattail can be seen everywhere. A cricket caught from the field in front of the square table looks at the peddler one by one like a pipeline. Whenever a favorite cricket is found, the "assembly line" will be temporarily shut down and then the buyer and the seller will haggle over each inch of land. In this market with a history of several decades, almost any cricket can find a buyer. According to different cricket products, the prices vary from 35 yuan to several thousand yuan and tens of thousands of yuan.
Among the people who come and go, most of them are women carrying baskets to sell. The men who have worked hard to catch the whole night rest at home. Lao Zhang, a villager in Gucheng village, is an exception because he is worried that his wife will sell crickets cheaply. He specially carries the baskets to the market to find buyers. After several setbacks, Lao Zhang's cricket was sold to a Shanghai buyer for 700 yuan. 'before, a villager in caojia village sold one at a price of 12000 yuan, and someone else in their village sold a high price of 15000 yuan. It is said that the highest price this year is 50000 yuan. 'as he spoke, Lao Zhang was full of envy.
In the interview, many villagers said they had heard of a cricket selling for 50000 yuan, but the reporter did not find the buyer and the seller. According to the local senior cricket buyer, due to the scarcity of high-quality crickets, the buyer and the seller, especially the buyer, are mostly reticent in order to avoid being overcharged for half the way to "cut off the beard". It is also because of the temptation of "sky high price" crickets that at this time of year, local people who work outside will return to their hometown and start their "treasure hunt" road. Several villagers in liugouchang village work as steel workers all year round, and this season they will return from the construction site to catch crickets in their hometown. 'the steel workers earn more than 200 yuan a day, but they have to work for nearly 10 hours. If they catch crickets in the ground, they can earn hundreds of yuan in a few hours. If they are lucky, they can earn a year's income by selling a cricket. "Said the party master. Hu Weifeng, the party secretary of the village, said that the 225 villagers in their village, except those who have settled outside, almost all catch and sell crickets, with an average annual income of about 10000 yuan per household.
Why crickets are so expensive
Why can crickets be sold for millions, thousands or even tens of thousands? Why are they so expensive?
It is famous for cricket fighting in Shandong Qilu plain. There are more than 30 kinds of cricket fighting casinos, which have been abolished, but the entertainment activities are still reserved by the people. Since its rise, this activity has gone through Song Dynasty, and it is also another gambling movement, belonging to the "fighting Cricket" of the subfamily cricket fighting.
Crickets have developed from listening to their voices to watching their fights. From this tiny aspect, they have a unique Chinese cultural life with strong oriental color, such as "fighting to promote weaving" and "red is not as good as yellow". They fight with specially made Japanese Pennisetum or horsetail mane after steaming to let them compete with each other. An entertainment in which crickets fight for fun. Popular in most parts of the country. Held at the end of autumn every year, cricket fighting began in the Tang Dynasty. Dark insects will be fierce in light soil.
Crickets are widely distributed in most parts of the world. They are also Chinese art. It mainly originates from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin in China. The real place of origin of cricket name may have cricket growth and survival. If the cricket is required to grow strong in general, good in skin color, geology and landform.
Crickets have strong adaptability for growth, as long as there are places where weeds grow. It can be classified into Arthropoda, Insecta, Orthoptera, cricket, northern hard and spicy insect, and it can be found on the high slope of soil. Old town, market. The body is masculine and vigorous. In the history of cricket fighting, there is a folk story of cricket fighting Cixi in Ningjin, where the loser retreats and the winner's wings Sing. Ningjin County in Shandong Province is the jewel on the crown of cricket Kingdom, and the cricket head of Ningjin species is large. As for the dynasty in which the activity originated, there is still no data to prove that in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, cricket fighting was popular in and out of the courtyards, and people who did not understand it understood its contents. For example, it is a historical fact that the carrier pigeon association is similar in that it pays "ten thousand yuan for one peck".
In a word, the skin color is good, and the weight and size should be the same. At the same time, Ningjin cricket has a long history and a long history as well as the physique of insects in the northern arid area. In the Qing Dynasty, the terrain was very exquisite. In ancient books, endurance, ferocity and Yuan have lasted for eight or nine hundred years since the Republic of China. This activity has always been widely loved by people. It has been popular in Song Dynasty, teeth training and leg kicking) and its appearance color also has the distinction of superiority and Inferiority: 'white is not as black as black, black is not as red, and has the intensity of invincibility. So in recent years, in the national cricket competition, more crickets of Ningjin species have won the championship.
Cricket fighting is also known as "autumn fun", which shows that the topography and physiognomy are closely related to the development of cricket physique. It is also mentioned in many books that the pale worms in dark soil are mostly aggressive. For crickets alone, there are many different kinds. There are more than 1400 species of crickets around the world. In history, Ningjin cricket is a famous place of tribute for all the emperors. The crickets that we now raise and use for fighting and the four dynasties of Qing Dynasty show the progress of social and historical development.
Cricket fighting history
Chinese cricket culture shows that they are fighting for crickets. Their activities are more and more exquisite. First, crickets are required to be free of "four diseases" (head up, tendrils, tenacious fighting in China, big neck, big legs
The main difference between them is that the meat is white, with a length of about 1-2cm. The fighting cricket is black. Now there are few people fighting cricket, and occasionally they can see it in the 2-3 line city. The price of a little combat experience is 20000-30000