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Why are crickets considered lucky?
What is the story behind this belief?
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Crickets are considered lucky in China. They "symbolize luck and prosperity; having one living in your house is lucky." Apparently, crickets on the hearth brings the greatest luck of all. This considers assuring good fortune.
"Crickets are believed to be enchanted. People do not like to express an exact opinion about them, so they are spoken of with great mystery and awe. No one would venture to kill them for the whole world. They are by no means evil. Their singing keeps away the fairies at night, who are always anxious, in their selfish way, to have the whole hearth left clear for themselves." The fairy tale continues with that the crickets "may sit round the last embers of the fire, and drink the cup of milk left for them by the farmer's wife, in peace and quietness. The crickets are supposed to be hundreds of years old, and their talk, could we understand it, would no doubt be most interesting and instructive."
The "Chinese like its monotonous chirping, which resembles their own music, and think it is lucky. Twelve centuries ago palace ladies were keeping crickets by their bedsides in golden cages. Peasants made tiny bamboo cricket cages which they carried in their bosoms or swung from their girdles. During the Sung dynasty (A. D. 960-1280) Chinese began encouraging their crickets to fight each other."
"Crickets are believed to be enchanted. People do not like to express an exact opinion about them, so they are spoken of with great mystery and awe. No one would venture to kill them for the whole world. They are by no means evil. Their singing keeps away the fairies at night, who are always anxious, in their selfish way, to have the whole hearth left clear for themselves." The fairy tale continues with that the crickets "may sit round the last embers of the fire, and drink the cup of milk left for them by the farmer's wife, in peace and quietness. The crickets are supposed to be hundreds of years old, and their talk, could we understand it, would no doubt be most interesting and instructive."
The "Chinese like its monotonous chirping, which resembles their own music, and think it is lucky. Twelve centuries ago palace ladies were keeping crickets by their bedsides in golden cages. Peasants made tiny bamboo cricket cages which they carried in their bosoms or swung from their girdles. During the Sung dynasty (A. D. 960-1280) Chinese began encouraging their crickets to fight each other."
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