Chinese Cricket Fighting
December 23rd, 2007 by James
A very interesting clip of a TV show about the ancient Chinese tradition of cricket fighting:
Cricket fighting dates back to the Tang Dynasty, and apparently it’s still somewhat popular in China today. In the video we are shown a master trainer of cricket fighting champions who takes the tradition very seriously, investing large amounts of money towards finding the perfect cricket and training/feeding it to perfection. Villagers in the countryside often go hunting for strong-looking crickets, and bugs with especially strong pincers and legs are sometimes sold for as much as $1000!
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Hee, hee… they look like little sumo wrestlers.
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Some Animetal in the background?
Sounds like it.
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This is probably all Michael Vick can do in the prison now.
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