Cricket fighting

[1][2] Unlike blood sports such as bullfighting and cockfighting, cricket fighting rarely causes injuries to the animals.

In the thirteenth century, the Southern Song dynasty prime minister Jia Sidao wrote a how-to guide for the blood sport.

During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) China's Communist government banned cricket fighting as a bourgeois predilection, but it is now undergoing a revival among a younger generation eager to embrace traditional Chinese pastimes.

In Hong Kong, the popularity of cricket fighting has declined since the 1950s and 60s, partly due to pesticides reducing the supply of fighters.

Each cricket must be kept in its own clay pot and their diets include ground shrimp, red beans, goat liver, and maggots.

The loser is the cricket that first begins avoiding contact, runs away from battle, stops chirping, or jumps out of the fighting container.