Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural by Songling Pu

Author:Songling,Pu
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780804841382
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2011-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

DURING the reign of Xuande,339 cricket fighting was very much in vogue at court, levies of crickets being exacted from the people as a tax. On one occasion the magistrate of Huayin, wishing to make friends with the Governor, presented him with a cricket which, on being set to fight, displayed very remarkable powers; so much so that the Governor commanded the magistrate to supply him regularly with these insects. The latter, in his turn, ordered the beadles of his district to provide him with crickets; and then it became a practice for people who had nothing else to do to catch and rear them for this purpose. Thus the price of crickets rose very high; and when the beadle’s340 runners came to exact even a single one, it was enough to ruin several families.

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