The city of Jinan has an ancient moat around the city and 4 directional entrances. East Gate is one of my favorite shopping experiences. These are live crickets, the bring "good luck" the story is a neighbor wanted one for his aparmtent and so Rick and I agreed to bring one home. However the sales man wanted the cricket to be kept warm and I was not going to carry a cricket inside my clothes to keep it warm, even in a tempoary cage. So, Rick carried it around for a few hours until we got home. It survived for several week and finally died. When we took the pictures of the "goldfish" the water was literally frozen on the top. Poor fish