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Cricket-fighting is a popular pastime in China, more than 1,000 years old. The two months after liqiu,which fell on August 8 this year,is a peak fighting season. Liqiuliterally means “autumn begins" in Chinese.
A cricket fan scrutinizes a cricket in a bird and flower market on Xizang Road.
The sport of cricket fighting is a national obsession in China dating from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.).
Crickets on sale at the market
The "bug economy" usually booms from September to early November in the city,
