The bold and valiant fighting cricket is favourite of many Chinese, both children and adults. Cricket owners meet and discuss the term of the fight first, sometimes with the sponsor or referee. The insects are weighed and the flat-bottomed tub or bowl serving as the battle-ground is chosen. Betting was common on pre-1949 days, but is now forbidden.
A battle may finish in a flash, but a fight between two evenly matched contestants could go on several or even dozen of minutes. Like experienced boxer, a clever cricket does not rush at his oponent at the first encounter. Instead, he makes strategic rushes and manuvers to test the enemy. The two tiny warriors fight with art and determination. Sometimes one is thrown out of the ring several times and each time it leaps back to resume the fight.
Condemned during the Culture Revolution, this hobby is once again accepted in China.
(Reader's Digest, August 1985:80)
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