According to Chinese fables, crickets are revered for their intelligence and good fortune. In fact, if a person were to harm a cricket, it was believed that they would have great misfortune. Even today, in parts of eastern Asian, the male crickets are caged so people can enjoy the song they make.
Chinese farmers were known to listen to the “Jing-Zhe,” meaning “waking of the insects” sounds of the crickets to determine when it was time to plough their fields.
I love this piece.
..brilliant idea..wonderful illustration!!
This is absolutely lovely!
Ah! Your cheery illustration has answered a question. I didn’t know what had been released from my minuscule IF cage, now I know, it was a cricket. I’d forgotten about orientals keeping crickets. They were the first to keep goldfish too. In pots.
Another amazing piece. Just love your work ♥
Lots of beautiful flow in this Roberta, exquisite look on that face. I just adore that hair and the pattern and the way the hand with the cricket jumps out from the border.
Great work! My mom would tell me that crickets in the house were good luck so I’ve always associated them with the positive and smile when I see them walking about :)
Love this, Roberta! Especially his braid and the teeny tiny cage! As soon as I arrived at your blog, a cricket started chirping outside my door (honest!)
oooh, one of my favorite characters of yours too!! And I’ve heard of this. Maybe when I was googling caged ideas :P
I used an old illo…life’s so busy right now!
I just joined the sketchbook project yesterday! I chose “it’s raining cats and dogs.” Should be fun!!
Whatever happened with the Kris Anna project???
Well as far as I know, it came back to the states. I did my piece and then sent it to Nan. I haven’t heard anything else about it. I’ve been wondering myself!
What a lovely illustration Roberta..