The "sport" Cricket fighting involving animals dates all the way back to the Tang Dynasty and continued to the beginning of the 19th century.
 In the early 12th century the Chinese people began holding cricket fights. 
 The art of selecting and breeding the finest fighting crickets was perfected during the Qing dynasty and remained a monopoly of the imperial court until the beginning of the 19th century. 
Cricket fighting is a blood sport involving the fighting of male crickets. 
 It is a popular pastime in China and dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty. 
