Original title: Shandong Province now has 110000 yuan of daily price crickets and 3 million yuan of household crickets
According to the report of the voice of China, the scientific name of cricket is cricket, which is also called night warbler, general insect, and weaving promoter. Two in the pot, with a lead grass will fight each other up. It is said that cricket fighting originated in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1000 years.
Crickets are widely distributed, almost all over the country, so many places also have the custom of fighting crickets. Then why should we pay attention to this topic? Because our colleagues in Shandong Taiwan recently found a shocking thing. A merchant from Tianjin bought a cricket in Ningyang, Shandong Province. It can't be said that the product looks bad, but it costs a lot of money?
If it's a kind of cricket for chickens and birds, you can buy three or five hundred for tens of dollars. It's not good to have a little variety. But even in dry and low cricket production years, under normal circumstances, a few hundred yuan will be less, and a few thousand yuan will be more, and the end will come. Some of the best products are around ten thousand yuan.
But the cricket, which was just sold out in Ningyang, Shandong Province, has a transaction price of 110000 yuan. Although Shandong is a traditional cricket producing area, the price is obviously not in line with the market rules. Then can we guess that a cricket, which has no cost and collection value, is commonly known as a "hundred day bug". If it can live until winter, it will earn money. If it is suddenly fired to this extent, will there be any stories unknown to outsiders behind it?
Every year around the Mid Autumn Festival, several cricket producing areas in Shandong Province gather customers from Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hong Kong. Mr. Fang, a Hong Kong businessman who bought cricket in Ningjin County, said that today, there are more than 40 cricket on the sixth day (how many you bought). I have bought them here for six days, and I will buy others in Shanghai. I want to buy more than 100 cricket a year.
Every year, in the "insect season", men, women, old and young from the main cricket producing area will put down their work and rush to the field to pick up crickets. For them, they can make forty-five thousand yuan in these two months, which may be more than a year's hard work. Youqinglin, in Chaihudian Town, Ningjin County, has caught crickets for more than 30 years. He said that crickets are caught by luck. Sometimes there are no good crickets in one hundred and eighty mu of land. Sometimes there are many crickets in the field. They can earn thousands of yuan in less than an hour.
You Qinglin: if it's a good time to catch more, you have to move to that place. Crickets don't have to be there.
How hot is cricket economy? In sidian Town, Ningyang County, there is more than 600 million yuan of capital flow in a short period of 30 to 40 days. In Chaihudian Town, Ningjin County, with a total population of only 63000, 35000 people are engaged in cricket catching and trading every year. The economic benefits generated by cricket business for two months every year account for more than 70% of the town's annual financial revenue. Through such a description, we can see the degree of economic explosion of "douchong". Zhao, a cricket broker in his 50s, has been a cricket dealer for more than ten years. In a month or two, he can easily earn 450000 yuan.
Brother Zhao: if you sell it to customers in Hangzhou and Shanghai, you can earn three or five hundred yuan if you buy it for one hundred yuan. It's not very basic, it's not well researched, and it's a lot of knowledge.
How can a small cricket be so valuable? A bug friend told the reporter that in fact, more people buy and sell crickets with a gambler's mentality, just like gambling on jade. No one knows whether tens of thousands of bought crickets will be killed by other crickets. Only 'win' is the value of crickets:
Insect friend: if he wins, the value will rise. If he loses, the value will be lost, and it will be useless if he loses.
Through the action of our reporters ahead, we have probably caught several key words: "Cricket economy", "gambler psychology" and "win or lose". None of the buyers who spent a lot of money interviewed by the reporter was just for listening to a cricket quietly, or even just for fun. No one spends a lot of money to lose money. They want money to make money.
Has cricket fighting degenerated into gambling? In fact, it is logically reasonable to infer that at this stage, there is only one real hammer left. However, in the investigation, the front reporters found that the circle called cricket fighting and gambling is very secretive and well organized. Without a long-term undercover process, it is difficult to get familiar with them.
Of course, for the purpose of protecting journalists, we don't deny that 'journalists are still trying to be undercover'. However, some insiders clearly used the word "gambling" when they interviewed us.
Zhao Wenge, 50, is now the director of the office of the Cricket Association of Linqing. In his opinion, behind the hot cricket market, there are also worries. Buying crickets for gambling will destroy the cricket industry in the long run.
Zhao Wenge: crickets are always being explored and studied. They are ever-changing. Joking, you can see which cricket can win. You can take a sack to carry money. It's normal for a cricket to have more than 10000 crickets. Civilization says that it's cricket fighting. It's bad to say that it's gambling equipment. It must be gambling to spend a lot of money on crickets.
In the interview, the reporter learned that last year, a Shanghai player bought a cricket in Ningyang for ten thousand yuan. After returning to Shanghai, he put it on the gambling house. He was invincible and earned three million yuan for the player. After the cricket died, he deliberately cremated it and sent it back to his hometown in Shandong for peace.
Finally, this example reminds me of the story in Liaozhaizhiyi, which is called "promoting weaving". Strange stories can be full of absurd words, but it's a bit strange to make them become realistic prophecy novels.
Of course, there are also many people in action, let the traditional skills of cricket fighting, or culture, not become a shallow game of gambling and money. At the government level, Ningyang, Shandong Province, which sells crickets at a high price, has held a government led and standardized "Chinese cricket competition" since the 1990s. Ningyang County government also introduced a local regulation to regulate the development of cricket resources.
In Beijing, Zhao boguang, secretary-general of the Beijing Ming and insect Association, organizes cricket friendship competitions every year, commonly known as the "Peace Bureau", which directly saves face to fight against those dirty gambles in the society. At first, the only thing related to money was that each contestant paid 5 yuan to raise money to buy certificates and trophies.
People who play with insects all know that the crickets that lose the fight will not be called. The so-called 'defeat is not Ming, shame is also'. This is the cricket's virtue. Insect still knows loyalty, courage and faith. If the person who plays insect only knows one word "Li", do you think it's too sad?