Are Crickets Good Luck? Discover the Myths and Beliefs Surrounding These Fascinating Creatures

华人网 2024-10-5 01:34

Crickets play an important role in mythology and superstition. People believe that having crickets around brings good luck and wisdom, while harming them brings misfortune.

If crickets come to your home, there is also a sign of great luck and good things to come.

The presence of crickets is good luck and intelligence, and their entry into the home indicates that the home has good feng shui, suggesting that the family is thriving and that the home has a good aura.

This statement is actually recorded in the ancient books have two kinds of basis:

First, small animals and small insects, they survive by instinct, more than humans know to avoid harm, so around themselves are some of the more conducive to their own survival of the environment, the crickets into my home, but also can show that our home is very suitable for the growth of the animals, is for small animals are harmless environment, then our whole family living in such an environment is more fresh and healthy.

Secondly, the crickets into the home big luck is the previous generation after generation passed down the saying, is living in the Qing Dynasty before those dynasties, that time the cricket is people will raise to play the contraption, there are also alias crickets, promote the weaving and so on, if a poor people's home came in the crickets, catch up and sell them to the rich people, can get rich money, even if you take to fight crickets, but also earn a rich and noble family.

In addition, the folk also circulated a variety of sayings: “house with crickets, great luck”; “the presence of crickets is equal to the good luck and wisdom”; “crickets into the house shows that the feng shui of the home is good, indicating that the family wealth is prosperous ”; “indicates that the home aura is very good, small animals are also very spiritual, dangerous places it will avoid”, and so on.

In ancient times, the chirping of crickets resonated with many scholars and poets. From the "Book of Songs" to Tang poetry and Song lyrics, the symbolism of crickets became increasingly rich. The earliest mention of crickets as a poetic subject appears in the "Book of Songs: Bin Feng: July," which observes their activities in detail: “In July they are in the fields, in August on the roof, in September at the door, and in October crickets enter beneath my bed.”

Back then, people noted that the sound of crickets resembled that of a loom, and as autumn deepened, they associated it with the need to weave winter clothing and reminisce about loved ones. The term "cùzhī" directly refers to crickets, and it appears in the "Nineteen Ancient Poems": “Bright moonlight shines, crickets chirp on the eastern wall.”

In Jiang Kui's "Qitian Le," he writes of a woman reminiscing about someone far away, her sorrow reflected in the sound of crickets: “The mournful notes seem to express, a longing for the sleepless woman, as she rises to seek the loom.”