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    "Xiao Caihua, do you adapt to the living environment here?" Yuan Benchu ??walked over with a friendly expression.  Today, Xiaocaihua has a completely new look. She is wearing a floral skirt and her hair has been trimmed, making her look very clean and tidy.  After all, Xiaocaihua is just a little girl of eleven or twelve years old and has not yet formed her own ideas. Therefore, she gradually returned to normal under the caring care of Ma Xiaolu and others.

    "Get used to it, brother Benchu, you see I can milk a cow." Xiaocaihua said happily. There were many buffaloes and buffalo calves playing with her in the pasture, and she suddenly felt much brighter. This is why Yuan Benchu ??chose to adopt  For her reasons, if you have more contact with other people, you will naturally forget the original unpleasant experience.

    Yuan Benchu ??nodded with a smile, and after chatting with Xiaocaihua for a long time, he went straight to inspect the specific conditions of the ranch.  The ranch has officially got back on track, and Yuan Benchu ??is relieved. Xiaocaihua seems to be relatively adaptable and has not had any extreme reactions. From a glimpse, we can basically understand how badly his biological father and stepmother treated her.  In rural areas, girls are like thrown water and do not belong to the family's labor force. Moreover, there is excessive discrimination against girls based on the consideration of continuing the family line.

    ¡°Both boys and girls are the same, this sentence is just a slogan, especially in rural areas it is difficult to realize due to some reasons.  There are many people who are as tragic as Xiaocaihua. Xiaocaihua was just lucky enough to meet Yuan Benchu.  Leaving aside this aspect, Yuan Benchu ??visited the ranch all morning and arrived at the farm at noon.

    ??Fan mother and son are quite attentive to their work, and they are equipped with a pickup truck. Fan Ba ??can go wherever he wants. This is undoubtedly a great advantage for Fan Ba.  When they arrived at the farm, they were just in time for dinner. The mother and son simply fried eggs, fried peppers and green vegetables. Seeing Yuan Benchu ??coming, Fan Yingxi hurriedly came over to greet him and said: "Boss Yuan, come here, I will fry some more vegetables."  .¡±

    "No need, this is the best!" Yuan Benchu ??said and sat down, eating with gusto. Yuan Benchu ??was not a young man from an aristocratic family. He was just like ordinary people, he just liked green vegetables more.  After lunch, Yuan Benchu ??chatted with Fan's mother and son for a few words. Fan Ba ??suddenly said with great interest: "Brother Yuan, I have a good thing for you to see."

    Fan Ba ??mysteriously took out a black pottery straight-cylinder jar, opened it and saw a cricket chirping extremely loudly.

    "Cricket! Fan Ba, do you fight crickets?" It's not that there are no cricket fights in the south. Influenced by the north, the south has also attracted a group of people who fight crickets, but most of them are old people. I didn't expect that a young man like Fan Ba ??would like this.  thing.

    Cricket is also known as "promoting weaving", "moving towards weaving", "yin cricket" and "cricket child".  Class Insecta, order Orthoptera, family Gryllidae.  The antennae are longer than the body.  The female's ovipositor is exposed.  Males are good at singing and aggressive.  There are many species, the most common one is the Chinese cricket, with a body length of about 20 mm.  A generation is born every year.  Pronounced by friction of wings.  The dried worm body is used as medicine. It is warm in nature, pungent and salty in taste, toxic, and functions as a diuretic. It is mainly used to relieve edema and urinary obstruction.  In the same family there are oil gourds, large coffin-headed crickets, etc.  They are agricultural pests because they live underground and eat the stems, leaves, seeds and roots of plants.

    Crickets are burrow-dwelling, often inhabiting the surface, under masonry, in soil caves, and among grass.  Night out activities.  Omnivorous, eating a variety of crops, saplings, vegetables and fruits, etc.  Certain behaviors in crickets can be induced by specific external stimuli.  When fighting crickets, if you use fine soft hairs to stimulate the male cricket's mouth whiskers, it will encourage it to rush towards the opponent and fight hard; if you touch its tail hair, it will arouse its disgust and kick it back with its hind legs.  Express resistance.  Therefore, crickets have also become a tool for some people to win or lose in battles.  Poet Chen Zhisui's "Cricket Ballad": "A cricket fight in Hangzhou is worth ten thousand yuan. Today's entertainment trends have changed, and people in Kyoto do not play folk games." (Contained in "Zai Jing Tang Ji? Jiangnan Jingshi Poetry Manuscript").

    Crickets are solitary by nature and generally live independently. They are never allowed to live with other crickets (the male also lives with another female during the sexual period). Therefore, they cannot tolerate each other and will not tolerate each other once they touch each other.  When they get together, they will fight.  Crickets are known for their chirping and aggressiveness.  In the cricket family, male and female crickets do not achieve "hundred years of good fortune" through "free love".

    Whichever male cricket is brave and good at fighting and defeats other members of the same sex, he will gain possession of the female cricket. Therefore, the phenomenon of "polygamy" is not uncommon in the cricket family.  Of course, from the perspective of biological evolution, this is also natural selection, survival of the fittest, and is conducive to the health and prosperity of the children and grandchildren of the cricket family.  In addition, the chirping of crickets is also quite famous. Different pitches and frequencies can express different meanings. The loud and long rhythmic chirping of crickets at night is a warning to others of the same sex: This is my territory, don¡¯t invade!

    At the same time, it attracts the opposite sex: "I'm here, come quickly!" When someone else of the same sex rushes in without knowing the courtesy, then it becomes majestic andChirping hurriedly as a stern warning.  If the "ultimatum" fails, then a murderous battle to seize territory and defend the leader will begin. The two crickets throw away their big teeth, kick their legs and flap their wings, and fight together. The intensity of the battle is no less than that of the two countries in ancient times.  The most brutal hand-to-hand combat in the war.  Crickets are distributed over a wide area, almost all over the country, and more in the provinces south of the Yellow River.  It likes to live on hillsides, fields, rock piles and grass with slightly moist soil.  This insect usually starts chirping in August in summer. It chirps most happily in the wild at 20 degrees Celsius, and stops chirping in late October when the weather turns cold.

    It has one generation every year and lays eggs in the soil to survive the winter.  When a male insect encounters a female, its chirping sound can change into: "chirp, chirp, chirp," and when having sex, it makes a trembling "chirp" sound.  Males are aggressive. When two males meet, they will first erect their wings and chirp to show off their authority. Then they will go head to head, opening their large jaws like pincers to bite each other, kicking with their feet, and often rolling forward and backward. 3  ~5 rounds.  Then, the loser escaped silently, while the winner raised his wings high and sang loudly and proudly, looking very proud.  Crickets are good at fighting because of their singing.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  According to research, crickets are an ancient insect with a history of at least 140 million years.  Every quiet summer night, there will be bursts of clear and sweet chirping sounds from the grass.  Listen, the crickets are having a concert again!  The cricket's beautiful song does not come from its voice, but from its wings.  If you observe carefully, you will find that the cricket is constantly vibrating its wings. Is it flapping its wings to fly?  Of course not, the wings are its vocal organs.

    Because there is a short, file-like thorn on the right wing of the cricket, and there is a hard knife-like thorn on the left wing.  The left and right wings open and close, rubbing against each other.  Vibrate its wings to make a pleasant sound.  During the breeding season, male crickets will vibrate their wings more vigorously and sing beautiful songs to find a mate.  The king of song among them is the long-jawed cricket.  The body length can reach about 20 mm, and the antennae are about 35 mm long. Because its two large teeth protrude forward, it is named the long-jawed cricket, commonly known as Saxophone.  In addition to being good at singing, crickets are also very aggressive.

    Appreciating songbirds seems to be gradually becoming a fashion in today's society, whether in large cities such as Beijing, Shangjin, Zhonghai, Guangdong, and Hong Kong, as well as medium-sized cities such as Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, as well as at the county level in Sheyang City, Yancheng  Cities have songbug markets of varying sizes.  Watching songbugs as an entertainment activity can reflect modern people's desire to return to basics.

    The annual cricket competition was held in Beijing at the end of October, with more than 400 cricket enthusiasts from Beijing participating.  This cricket competition will last for a month, and all cricket enthusiasts are from the private sector. The cricket that wins the championship will be awarded the title of "King of Insects".  According to Wu Jichuan, chairman of the Tianchao Cricket Professional Committee, there are currently approximately 100,000 cricket enthusiasts in Beijing, and more than 1,000 people are registered with the Cricket Professional Committee.  On weekends in some parks in Beijing, you can often see them fighting crickets in groups.

    Crickets are also known as crickets and weaving. Cricket fighting began during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. It flourished in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.  In the past, crickets could be caught just by bowing their heads in places such as Xiangshan Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, and hot springs in the suburbs of Beijing. Crickets could also be caught in the Forbidden City, Beihai, Temple of Heaven, Ancestral Temple, and other places in the city.  White-toothed green, white-toothed purple, green-threaded flying spider, and iron marble are all well-known cricket species in Beijing.  Folks in the capital have always retained the custom of playing crickets, and players from all walks of life often gather together to chat and fight crickets.  When it was popular, Xuanwumen, Niujie, and Chunshu Toutiao were famous places for arenas and cricket fights.

    Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer crickets in the capital, so cricket lovers in Beijing rush to Ningyang County, thousands of miles away, to buy them.  The current development of artificial breeding technology allows cricket players to hear their cries all year round.  In recent years, the business of breeding crickets in winter has become popular in Tianjin.  Nowadays, most of the crickets in Guanyuan and other insect markets in Beijing come from Shangjin.

    Crickets, oil gourds, and grasshoppers are known as the three major singing insects in China.  Among the three major songbirds, the cricket is the most playful, exciting and culturally interesting.  The ancients paid attention to three realms when playing cricket.  The first state is called "paying attention to things".  The most typical representative of this is Jia Sidao, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, who actually ruined the country by playing with insects; the second state is called "entertainment as gambling", and cricket fighting is used as a means of gambling; the third state is called "meaning of things"  , this is the highest state, mostly done by literati.

    Located in the tower of the Xibianmen Ming City Wall ruins in the capital, the first cricket house in the capital, the Ancient Road Tea Garden, is a newly opened place in the capital where you can drink tea and appreciate cricket culture.  There are cricket paintings and cricket shadow sculptures hanging in the tea garden. Players who set up arenas and fight crickets come here to relive old games.

    There is a lot of history about crickets. Yuan Benchu ??only caught a few when he was a child, but they were influenced by domestic cartoons.At that time, there was no cricket fighting among students. They were simply kept in matchboxes with green peppers as food. However, generally speaking, they would die in one day and they would not be raised.

    Yuan Benchu ??really didn¡¯t know much about this, so he asked, ¡°Fan Ba, why are you playing with this?¡±

    "The nearby villagers are excited to have a fight when they have nothing to do. It's a small gamble for fun. My general has won a hundred yuan for me!" Listening to Fan Ba's excited look, Yuan Benchu ??persuaded.  : "There's nothing wrong with you if you like it, just don't bet too much, it won't be very good for you. As you grow older, your interest will change."

    Fan Ba ??said nonchalantly: "Usually a game costs about ten yuan. I know this about Brother Yuan. I won't bet too much and it won't affect my work."

    After hearing this, Yuan Benchu ??was still uneasy and glanced at Fan Yingxi. She didn't seem to care and said, "Boss Yuan, Fan Ba ??knows this." After hearing this, Yuan Benchu ??could only say to himself: "Only by truly experiencing it can you know  I understand!¡±

    Yuan Benchu ??was too lazy to say anything more. In his impression, gambling always starts with small amounts. The so-called joy of small gambling is just a rhetoric. In fact, it is still gambling. Human desires are unlimited. If you win today, you will not be able to win tomorrow.  I just want to win again, and once I lose, I have to find a place, over and over again, and eventually my family is ruined.

    The gambling culture among Chinese people has never stopped. Fan Ba ??may have fallen into a trap of an organization. After letting him win several times, he lost all his money. There are too many such examples.  Fan Ba ??had just returned home not long ago, so he didn't know many things.  Fan Yingxi, a mother, didn't have any ideas, so she had to let it go.

    ¡°Forget it, people can only get a glimmer of enlightenment after suffering a loss. Yuan Benchu ??didn¡¯t say much and walked around the farm to check the situation.  At this time, Xiaobai and Ah Huang ran over. Maybe they had disappeared these days, and Yuan Benchu ??had forgotten the existence of these two native dogs.

    Chinese Garden Dogs are what Chinese people call native dogs (also known as grass dogs, vegetable dogs, meat dogs, Shiba Inu, and stupid dogs). People often despise them because of their popularity and their names. In fact, they look very cute.  , if carefully raised, they will not be weaker than other dogs.

    The Chinese Garden Dog is a dog breed that has gone through thousands or even tens of thousands of years of natural and artificial selection in the Celestial Dynasty. It is said that this kind of dog was used by Qin Shihuang to unify the Central Plains.  Among the Han people, people call them "local dogs", which as the name suggests are dogs from the local area; some places in the north are also called "Chai Dogs" because the climate in the north is cold, and dogs usually nest next to firewood stoves or firewood piles; in the east, Jiangsu and Zhejiang  The Shanghai area is generally called "grass dog" because local farmers will keep one or two such dogs in their homes to watch the house as companions, and their main range of activities during the day is grassland and other places.

    The ancestors of the Chinese Garden Dog are similar to other dog breeds and are derived from Southeast Asian wolves, while the Chinese native dogs are closer to wolves in appearance, with short muzzles and flat foreheads.  It is widely distributed geographically, mainly in the low-altitude Han gathering areas south of the Great Wall, east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and centered on the Central Plains. It is the product of the Chinese Han people's agricultural society for thousands of years.

    This kind of distribution definition is very important. It makes it clear that the living environment of the Chinese Garden Dog is a low-altitude farming society area. The environment is warm and people live mainly on food. This is why it has a medium size, moderate hair length, not strong carnivorous habits, and a biased diet.  Omnivorous, generous but not delicate.  Of course, along with the continuous migration of the Han nationality for thousands of years, the distribution range of Chinese garden dogs is also constantly expanding.  For example, in Northeast China, due to the immigration of Han people, there are many pastoral dogs in the countryside that are different from the pastoral areas in Northeast China, and some of them have been hybridized with dog breeds from other areas to form new breeds.  But one thing is certain that the Chinese Pastoral Dog is a product of the farming society in the Central Plains of China.

    Regarding the origin of the Chinese Garden Dog, it should have followed the Han nationality in migrating from the northern areas of the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River to various parts of the Celestial Dynasty.  Chinese Garden Dogs are distributed in both the north and the south, but regardless of the cold north or the hot south, Garden Dogs have beautiful long-haired and large curly tails. These are the characteristics of northern dog breeds.

    When distinguishing Chinese garden dogs from other dog breeds, the distinction should be made based on the living environment of the regional ethnic group and the local culture.  For example, some friends have mentioned that the Liangshan Dog should be regarded as a Chinese pastoral dog. However, the Liangshan Dog is a breed from high-altitude and cold ethnic minority areas. Although its body shape is similar to that of a pastoral dog, its wildness, hair quality, and head shape are not the same.  It is a breed that is more accepting of Tibetan dogs.  In particular, the long-haired Liangshan dog looks very much like a Tibetan dog. Its forehead is wide, its ears are low, and its ears are large and completely collapsed. In our eyes, the "local dog" (Chinese pastoral dog) has a head shape with a flat forehead, narrow ears, and flat ears.  It is difficult to see a tall dog with small ears that are upright or semi-upright (semi-drooped), so Liangshan should not be considered one of the Chinese garden dogs.  The two breeds of Eastern Sichuan Hound and Xiasi Dog are very famous dog breeds in China. Compared with most pastoral dogs, their physical appearance is very different.??And they should all belong to minority dog ??breeds.  The East Sichuan Hound may belong to the ancient Ba people, and the Xiasi Dog is from the Miao ethnic group, so neither should be classified as a Chinese Pastoral Dog.  Some people say that the Hubei Arrow Dog is very similar to the Taiwanese native dog, but if you look closely, you will find that it is closer to the Eastern Sichuan Hound. Many physical features are very similar to the Eastern Sichuan Hound. In particular, it is the same as the Eastern Sichuan Hound.  Bamboo shoot tail is not seen in other dog breeds.  There is also the Hunan bearded dog, which should be of the same origin as the Xiasi dog, so Hubei arrow-haired and bearded dogs are not among the Chinese pastoral dogs.

    "Zhou Li" Qiu Guan Shu records: There are three types of dogs, one is field dog, the other is barking dog, and the third is food dog.  It can be seen that the ancient Chinese classification of dogs was mostly based on function, and did not pay attention to the appearance of the dog.  Due to different abilities, the best dogs that can hunt become field dogs, and those that are not able to hunt but are still ferocious can become guard barking dogs. If they are no longer useful, they will only be eaten by people.  Such manual screening means that the dog breeds commonly found in China do not have a fixed pedigree.

    The traditional culture of the Celestial Dynasty, which is dominated by the Han people, ignores dogs and the dog culture of modern society turns a blind eye to this dog breed. As a result, the dog breed that has been running on the land of China for more than 5,000 years does not even have a decent name. The folk call it "Tu".  dog.  "Tu dog" literally means "local dog" and cannot be the name of a dog, so the current name and concept of "Chinese pastoral dog" emerged.

    "Woof woof¡ª¡ª" Xiaobai and Ah Huang barked and greeted Yuan Benchu. No matter what, these two dogs were the dogs that Yuan Benchu ??raised for the first time, and they developed a dependence on their own. However, they only interacted with Fan Ba ??and Fan Yingxi.  They live longer, so they are easier to raise.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (this site) to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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