Crickets in Ningyang have a long history. As early as 2500 years ago, there was a record in the Book of Songs that "October crickets were in the hall and came under my bed". In ancient times, it was known as "the first worm in Jiangbei". With a long history, the crickets in Sidian Town are famous at home and abroad for paying tribute to the emperor and winning the championship in the fight.

Ningyang crickets have a long history and are well known, especially in Sidian Town. Cricket fighting in Ningyang began in Qin and Han Dynasties, flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties, and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Since ancient times, it has been called "the best cricket fighting in the world", and it has been regarded as a tribute to the palace in all previous dynasties. Ningyang cricket fighting is famous at home and abroad for its big size, strong temperament, strong jumping ability, strong fighting capacity and fierceness. There are many varieties, including more than 260 varieties in six categories: cyan, yellow, purple, red, black and white, of which Guangxu accounted for 9. In the 1984 Tianjin Cricket Friendly Tournament, 1989 Shanghai Cricket Tournament, 1992 Shanghai-Tianjin Tournament and the annual national cricket friendly tournament, Ningyang beat the rest of the group to win the championship, which attracted great attention of cricket fans at home and abroad. Professor Wu Jichuan, director of the Institute of Insects of China Academy of Sciences and president of China Cricket Association, led experts to visit Ningyang many times, and confirmed that Yining, a calcareous cinnamon soil area in southern Shandong, is the breeding cradle and holy land of China crickets and the hometown of China cricket culture, and made special presentations in major newspapers and books at home and abroad. Every autumn, cricket fans at home and abroad gather in Ningyang to catch and snap up. It receives more than 60 thousand people every year, and the annual cricket transaction volume is more than tens of millions of yuan. There are also articles about crickets in the serial.

Ningyang cricket fighting has been famous since ancient times. Cricket fighting prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, formed in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. It is recorded in the famous cricket book "Records of Meritorious Insects" that Ningyang's cricket-fighting chrysanthemum head defeated Shanghai's plum blossom wing and won the title of "giving the palace flowers to patrol the temple", and Zhu, who offered crickets, got 120 red gold. The essays on cricket fighting are even rarer: from Guangxu 2 1 to 1940, there were 26 crickets in China, of which Shandong accounted for 17, among which Ningyang had 9 crickets. In recent years, Ningyang insects will come forth in large numbers, and good news will spread frequently, which makes people look forward to it. 1In the autumn of 989, Mr. Huo Guanghan, a veteran of the Shanghai cricket community, collected purple yellow from Ningyang and won 8 games, while red yellow won 6 games. 1992, the Shanghai team and the Tianjin team fought again, and the players in Shanghai were all fighting crickets in Ningyang. As a result, they beat each other easily with 10: 0. ...

Why is Ningyang cricket played in nearly 100 games in China? This situation has attracted the attention of Professor Wu Jichuan, a famous entomologist, researcher of China Academy of Sciences and chairman of China Cricket Association. He walked thousands of miles and was not afraid of the heat. He visited Ningyang more than a dozen times and confirmed that Ningyang County, especially Sidian Town, belongs to calcareous cinnamon soil area with moderate acid and alkali. Abundant groundwater resources, Ningyanggou, Guanghe and Zhaoyu rivers run through the north and south, and the climate and relative humidity are suitable; Fertile land, complete grains, rich food and rich nutrition; There is also the smell of Mount Tai in the east in the north, the aura of Qufu, Confucius' hometown in the south, the heroism of Liangshan in Shui Bo in the west, and the style of connecting mountains with gods in the east. With so many special geographical environments, Ningyang County, especially Sidian Town and rural drinking water township, has become a treasure-house for the survival, reproduction and development of famous insects. Among them, green and yellow firewood are nearly 100 square kilometers. These unique natural conditions make Ningyang County the largest cricket market in northern China, called "Cricket Kingdom" by Hong Kong and Macao newspapers, and called "Cricket Town" by British Independent newspaper.