日前,’98中国首届蟋蟀擂台电视公开赛在济南举行,来自北京、天津、上海和济南的六支代表队参加了比赛。上百条精选出的蟋蟀上阵参战,经过四天的预赛与决赛,济南蟋蟀协会队荣获冠军,天津代表队获亚军。 自古以来,养斗蟋蟀就是一种雅俗共赏的民俗活动。两千多年前,《诗经》中就有了对于蟋蟀的吟咏;一千多年前,唐·天宝年间就已经开始了斗蟋蟀活动。自宋代至明清两代,斗蟋蟀活动便在上流社会及民间广泛推广开来。历代著名文人杜甫、白居易、苏东坡、杨万里、朱之蕃、袁宏道、张问陶等,都有吟咏蟋蟀的诗文传世。改革开放以来,随着经济的发展和人民生活水平的提高,全国各地又都出现了蟋蟀热,仅上海一地就有数万名蟋蟀爱好者,全国各地成立的省、市、县各级蟋蟀协会不下几十个。在历史发展的长河中,一些原有的民俗活动已经消失得难觅踪影,而斗蟋蟀活动却至今仍然保持着旺盛的势头,这足以表明,斗蟋蟀活动是一项有着 Recently, ’98 China’s first cricket arena television open held in Jinan, from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Jinan six teams participated in the competition. Hundreds of selected crickets battle, after four days of preliminaries and finals, Jinan cricket team won the championship, Tianjin team won the runner-up. Since ancient times, fighting crickets is a popular folk custom activity. More than two thousand years ago, there was a chanting of crickets in The Book of Songs; over a thousand years ago, cricket cricket had been started during the Tang and Tembus years. From the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, cricket crickets activities were extensively popularized in high society and civil society. Famous writers such as Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo, Yang Wanli, Zhu Fan, Yuan Hongdao and Zhang Wen Tao have handed down the poems of chanting crickets. Since the reform and opening up, with the development of economy and improvement of people’s living standards, cricket fever has appeared all over the country. In Shanghai, there are tens of thousands of cricket lovers. The crickets at provincial, city and county levels throughout the country Association no fewer than a dozen. In the long history of development, some of the original folk activities have disappeared disappeared, while the fighting cricket activity is still still maintained a strong momentum, which is sufficient to show that the cricket cricket activity is a