What are the ancient Chinese educational toys

Ancient Chinese Puzzle Toys

Classic One: Tangram

The Tangram, also known as "seven tangrams", is a famous Chinese puzzle toy. Because of the scientific design, ingenious ideas, endless changes, can be active image thinking, especially to inspire children's wisdom, so popular. After spreading abroad, it became popular all over the world and was called "Tangtu", which means "China's picture board". Tangram after the development of Yuan, to the Qing Dynasty during the Jiaqing period, there are "Yangjiajushi" in the synthesis of the practice of playing on the basis of writing a "seven coincidental figure" book published, the shape of its system is into a fixed pattern, that is, two large triangles, two small triangles, triangles, and squares, rhombuses in a piece of the synthesis of a square or a length and width of two to a Rectangle. Because this toy is so simple that it can be made by children themselves with thick cardboard, and the endless fun of playing is enough to make adults fascinated by it, so it has been widely circulated, and there is a pair of tangrams in a copper box among the Qing dynasty palace toys that exist in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Classic 2: Kongming lock

The Kongming lock is also a traditional Chinese intellectual toy, which is said to have been invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. This three-dimensional puzzle toy inside the concave and convex part of the engagement, very clever. Kongming lock class toys are more, the shape and internal structure of the different, generally easy to dismantle and difficult to install. When assembling, you need to observe carefully, think carefully, and analyze its internal structure.

Classic Three: Nine linked rings

Nine linked rings originated in ancient folklore, popularized in the Ming Dynasty, and then in the Qing Dynasty, all of them are popular among the scholars, women, children and old men. Dream of the Red Chamber" in the seventh time there is a narrative about the nine linked rings: who knows at this time Daiyu is not in her room, but in the room of the treasure jade in the big relief of the nine linked rings. The Nine Linked Rings is considered by the West to be one of the most marvelous toys invented by mankind, and its attraction lies in the continuity of the interlocking rings in the process of the game. This toy is a finished nine linked rings consisting of nine rings and a frame. This toy is good for developing intelligence, fostering learning, and moving fingers and muscles.

Classic 4: Huarong Road

This is an educational toy developed from a classic story. Deer Harbor "Cao concealed the defeat of the army went Huarong, is meeting with Guan Gong narrow road. Just for the sake of the original favor and righteousness, let go of the golden lock to walk the dragon". This poem is from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which the author laments the release of Cao Cao by Guan Gong at the Battle of Red Cliff. The ancient intellectual game of "Huarong Road" is inspired by this story. Because of the game's many variations, profound and inexplicable features, it has been called one of the world's "three most incredible games in the world of intellectual games".

The rules of the game are: you are only allowed to use two empty planes to move, you are not allowed to overlap the pieces, you are not allowed to cross any pieces, and you have to try to move Cao Cao to the exit in the least number of moves. Only Cao Cao is allowed to go out, no other pieces are allowed to go out. The object of this game is to help Cao Cao move from his initial position to the bottom center of the board by moving each piece.

Shuanglu

Shuanglu is an ancient game that has been lost. Shuanglu would have been a game similar to flying chess, which was once quite popular, judging from accounts in literature and heirloom artifacts.

Liu Bo

It was called Lu Bo. The game is played by two players, each with six pieces, hence the name "Liubo". The key to victory or defeat lies in the toss, which is highly contingent, and the two sides move according to the teeth of their respective tosses. Li Yi's "Miscellaneous Songs and Diatribes - Han Palace Boys' Journey" wrote: "A quick throw of the six pieces of Cao, a welcome to the joy of the first intention of the laughing and clamoring."

The word "cao" means "distribute". It is a very lively game with a lot of laughter.

Chinese Chess

Chinese chess has a long history. During the Warring States period, there was already an official record of Xiangqi. After nearly a hundred years of practice, Xiangqi was finalized into a modern model at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty: 32 pieces, one general (marshal) for each black and red piece, two rooks, knights, cannons, bishops (phases), soldiers (pawns), and five pawns (soldiers). During the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiangqi became a popular chess game.

Weiqi

Weiqi is a treasure in the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which embodies the pursuit of wisdom of the Chinese people. Ancient people often discuss a person's talent and cultivation with "qin, qi, shu, zhu, pinyin," in which qi refers to the game of Weiqi. Compared to the black-and-white world, Go is a favorite recreational and competitive activity of the ancient Chinese people, and is also the oldest chess game in the history of mankind. Because it integrates science, art and competition into one, has the characteristics of developing intellect, cultivating will quality and flexible strategic and tactical ideology, therefore, it has been flourishing for thousands of years, and gradually developed into an international cultural and competitive activities.