The Fighting Cricket
Channel: Lore and Legends
Date: 28/09/2020

What do you know about, and how do you feel about crickets? In Ancient China, crickets were symbols of prosperity, and their chirping was a sign of good luck, and a kind of music to the ears. They are also fierce fighters. The episode tells a Chinese Folktale called "The Fighting Cricket" and takes a look at the Chinese Lore and Legend surrounding crickets, the strange sport of cricket fighting, a little cricket science, and what our future relationship with the bugs may look ...errrr... taste like....

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Music in the Episode:

The Complex by Kevin MacLeod

License FML-26558-1867



"Cricket Chirping" by CedarFox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA



Shenyang by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4346-shenyang

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Eastern Thought by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3692-eastern-thought

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Ripples by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4287-ripples

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Video Image Credits:
Map of Ming Dynasty
https://www.chinahighlights.com/map/ancient-china-map/qing-dynasty-map.htm

Cricket Fighting Engraving
https://herschelian.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/cricket-fights-engraving-1879.jpg

Chinese Fortune Telling
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lai-Afong,-A-Chinese-Fortune-Teller.jpg

Old Buddhist Wayside Shrine
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buddhist_wayside_shrine_(4096116854).jpg

Green Cricket by CsillaT
https://www.deviantart.com/csillat/art/green-cricket-244175309

Cricket Keeping Carving
https://glasstire.com/events/2011/11/23/the-chinese-art-of-cricket-keeping-the-ernest-k-h-lee-collection/

Chinese Cricket Fighting Art
https://videogamesoftheoppressed.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/chinese-export-paintings-burnaby-art-gallery1.jpg

Cricket Mandibles 
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brawling-crickets-shed-light-fight-flight-response-humans-1491824

Cricket Gourds
https://www.sott.net/article/414522-In-ancient-China-pet-crickets-spent-the-winter-in-opulent-gourds

Mao Zedong
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mao_Zedong_1959_(cropped).jpg

Cricket Fight Club
http://www.takingontheworld.net/world-travel-blog/china/a-quick-tour-of-shanghai

Cricket Fighting in China
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cricket_fighting_in_China.JPG

Terreform Cricket Shelter
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2018/01/30/farming-the-next-big-food-source-crickets/#301dc5a61168