Video: Cricket - fighting insect: fights of arthropods in China
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For us, a cricket is an insect that sings behind the stove, knows its sixth, loves to teach wooden men and gave the Arzamas nickname to young A. S. Pushkin. Who would have thought that a harmless cricket is a warlike and bloodthirsty insect. In Japan, rodeos are organized on Piglets, and in the USA, dogs are surfing. Chinese crickets have been fighting for over a thousand years. Blood sport was regulated and prohibited. As a result, interest in cricket duels only flared up.
Future fighters can be bought in the fall at any poultry market. At this time, in megacities like Shanghai, many people wander through bazaars, listen to the consonant hum of insects, look into cylindrical vessels, assessing the legs and jaws of promising individuals (they are looking for a black palate). Usually breeders purchase a pair of crickets. Insects are regularly pitted against each other, and the one who wins more often in friendly meetings begins a serious sports career.
Shandong crickets are especially prized. These, they say, are generally animals: a large head, a powerful neck, strong legs, ferocity and the will to win more than once made the Shandongs winners of championships. Crickets are not sold very expensively: one individual costs from 2 to 50 dollars. And he can win in battles many times more. So the Chinese are investing yuan in the development of national sports. In 2010 alone, the population spent $ 63 million on the purchase of crickets.
Cricket fighting is a sport for real men. Two males are placed on a plastic ring and forced to fight by poking sticks at them. Anyone will get angry and grin from such treatment. And the fight broke out, the cricket fight! During the fight, only the participants, their coaches and the referee are in the room so that the noisy audience does not interfere with the course of the competition. Fans are watching the championship live.
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