page_title: The Fighting Cricket
hierarchical_section_title: The Fighting Cricket
caption_attribution_description: English: 19th-century illustration of a scene from the short story "The Fighting Cricket" collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (1740).
context_page_description: "The Fighting Cricket" is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Set in a society whose emperor has an obsession with fighting crickets, the story follows a boy who metamorphoses into one such cricket to save his father.
context_section_description: "The Fighting Cricket" (simplified Chinese: 促织; traditional Chinese: 促織; pinyin: Cùzhi) is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Set in a society whose emperor has an obsession with fighting crickets, the story follows a boy who metamorphoses into one such cricket to save his father.
caption: 19th-century illustration from Xiangzhu liaozhai zhiyi tuyong (Liaozhai Zhiyi with commentary and illustrations; 1886)
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