Old Beijing Games

Tugging the bag need to first find a three to four meters long, two meters wide empty field, in about two meters wide on each side of a white line, and then sew a two-inch square cloth bag, cloth bag put some sand or green beans, but do not put too hard stones, so as not to hurt.

Play: This game can be played by three to four people. Three people to play in the two lines outside each station is responsible for taking a package to cut, the middle of the station in the hands of a person to face the person with the package, the game began to take the package of people yanking the package to the middle of the person's body, but also to prevent her from catching, as long as the cut in the three times, the middle of the person did not catch the package, she will lose, to be "off the stage" for the package of the person to cut on the field, if the cut of people to catch the package cut over, then the package will be cut. If the person who is cut to catch the bag cut over, then each catch is a point, can be subtracted from the cut once. Four people play is divided into two groups, the line in the middle of the station two people, cut the regulations are the same, two people are cut down for the loss, "off the stage", by the other group of people on the field to do the cut package people.

This game not only makes the children fitness, but also intellectual competition, because the person responsible for cutting the package, to find ways to cut the package in the middle of the people difficult to receive the parts, standing in the middle of the people to find ways to flexibly turn around to avoid the package, at any time, squatting jump, on the one hand, in order to prevent cut, on the one hand, but also want to catch the package. This game is not only in the outdoor exercise of the body, but also to deepen the feelings of the small friends, and get great fun from it.

Jumping ribbons

Jumping ribbons, also known as jumping monkey ribbons. It is one of the girls' favorite games, popular from the 1950s to the 1970s. This game only need to prepare a pair of long leather straps can be, leather straps from the rubber or waste bicycle inner tube hinged into a thin strip, can also be used with some small leather band circle (at that time, more taken from the milk bottle on the bundle of the bottle's mouth of the leather band) connected together that is to become.

Play: three to five people can play together, can also be divided into two groups of competition, while dancing and singing very interesting. First by two people each take one end to stretch the tendon, others take turns to jump, according to the prescribed action, the completion of the winner, halfway to jump wrong or not hooked tendon, another person to jump. Jumping method is the height of the band from the ankle to the knee, to the waist to the chest to the shoulders, and then to the top of the ear, and then lift the "small lift", "big lift", the difficulty is getting bigger and bigger, the jumpers with their feet (not allowed to use their hands) to hook the band while dancing and singing the self-made song. I remember that the girls used to sing songs such as: "Jiang Sister Jiang Sister Jiang Sister Jiang Sister, you spilled your blood for the revolution, traitor traitor Fu Zhigao, you are a big straw bag." "Learn from Li Xiangyang, determined not to surrender, the enemy came to arrest me, I will jump the high wall, the high wall is useless, I will drill holes in the ground, holes in the ground shoot guns, blowing up the little Japanese." "A red flower red and red, Liu Hulan sister is a hero, from childhood is a bitter child, grew up as a heroine" and so on.

The song and dance jumping game, not only in the play to enhance the children's physical fitness, but also through the self-singing song, from which to learn the heroes and martyrs of the noble qualities and revolutionary ideas, so that children in the moral, intellectual and physical healthy growth.

Grabbing the goat's corner

Grabbing the goat's corner is also a game that the girls love to play. The so-called "abduction" is the sheep hind leg ankle bone is commonly known, is the surface of the smooth and irregular six-sided, four of which are two sets of uneven and can stand up, generally to prepare four, the children wash them and dye them with red or green color. In addition, a cloth bag an inch or so square is sewn and filled with green beans or small stones.

The game is played by two to four players, often on the steps under the eaves of a courtyard house or on a small dining table. At that time, there are a variety of different rules of play, the usual way to play is, first of all, four sheep crutch in the hand, a turn of the wrist will be crutch scattered on the ground, and at the same time grab the cloth bag, and then in each throw up a cloth bag, to order the crutch to support the right or press the down and to continue the cloth can not be on the ground, and then the last sheep crutch to grab and catch the cloth bag that is to win, if there is a time did not follow the cloth bag or not in accordance with the rules of the order of the crutch to support the good for the loss, by another person to continue to play, take turns, the sheep crutch to grab, and then the crutch is to win. If there is a time when you don't catch the bag or don't follow the order of the rules, you will lose, and then you will be played by another person.

This game makes the children with full dedication, not only refined the mind strain ability, but also make the children's wrist flexible and dexterous. Catching sheep abduction was popular, so that the girls are immensely happy, in the cultivation of interest in the growth.

Drawing gyro

Drawing gyro game has a long history, according to the book "Imperial Capital Scenic Spectacle", this game has been popular since the Ming Dynasty. Gyro is a kind of wooden spinning out, like a funnel on the rounded down the tip of a cone, in the tip of a small steel ball. In order to turn up to look good, but also in the gyro with a few rings on the ring of color, turn up to look very good, in addition to making a whip, that is, about two feet long with a small wooden stick, in the stick at the end of the tie on a rope or a thin strip of leather, cloth can be.

Play: play the first rope of the whip in the gyro around a few times, and then force the gyro on a flat field, so that the steel ball on the ground rotating, the player should be whipped, so that it keeps rotating. Some of the play skills of children, can be a person at the same time beating 2 to 3 gyro, can also be 2 to 3 people at the same time each draw gyro, than who turned the longest time for the winners.

Drawing gyro game is a prevalent in the 1940s boys game, when the old Beijing children to draw gyro called "pumping traitors", because the Japanese invaded the city of Beijing at that time, a lot of traitors to help abuse, they are the same as the Japanese devils hate, the people on the drawing of the gyro out of anger, while pumping while saying: "pumping traitors, hit the traitors, and the people will be able to play the game, but the people are not the same. "Smoke the traitors, beat the traitors, defeat Japan, beat the traitors." "Smoke traitors, fight traitors, stick noodles up a thousand." To solve the resentment of the heart.

Pumping gyro is a very suitable for children's outdoor games, it is worth promoting.

Hit the corner

Hit the corner is a very interesting game, male and female teenagers can participate in the "battle". Just choose a flat site, and on the ground with chalk to draw a few one-meter circle as a "position" can be.

Play: This game can be used one-on-one or group-on-group competition method. A pair of two people playing on the ground in the two circles each stood one person, each person to grab their own ankle one foot, the leg will be coiled up, leaving only the other leg on the ground jumping and walking. The game began, by a person out of the circle "attack", a person guard "position", the attacker popped to the other side of the circle, the two people hit each other with their knees, but can not be pushed or pulled with their hands, when being knocked out of the circle (position) or the other leg on the ground, that is, for the defeat, such as the attacker If the striker is knocked out of the circle (position) or when the other leg hits the ground, it is a defeat, if the striker is knocked out of the circle, it is a defeat. Then take turns to be the "striker" or the "defender of the position". If more than one person to play in two groups, the last still hold the position was not knocked out of the circle, and the attackers are defeated when the winner.

Both sides of this game should be resourceful, agile, calm, brave, which is the key to victory. This game can be played in a laughter in the children's physical exercise, confidence and perseverance.

Invite someone to cross the river

I still remember the "invite someone to cross the river" game. This game is accompanied by a beautiful tune, which is fun to sing and play at the same time.

Method of play: the game will participate in the people divided into two teams, each team to 4 to 6 people, more can be appropriate. First, use chalk to draw two straight lines on a flat field, leaving a meter wide between the two lines as the boundary also known as the "river". The game began with two teams of people are face to face standing behind the two lines, first by any team of people pulling up their hands and waving their arms while walking back and forth, while singing: "We invite a person ah! We invite someone!" The other team held hands and danced their hands and feet and asked, "What person are you inviting? Who are you inviting?" (Same tune) The team then sings, "We invite xxxxx (the name of a member of the other team)! We're inviting xxxxx?" The invited team then sings, "Who will come to play with her? Who's going to play with her?" The inviting team replies, "xxxxx (name of a member of our team) is coming to play with her! ×××xxxxx is coming to play with her!" Singing after the two teams to participate in the line each stand on their own side of the line behind the edge, legs and feet can not cross the line, the two friendly handshake, pull each other with one hand, not with two hands, the other two teams are shouting: "× × × Go, go" for their own team members to encourage. Two people to see who can pull each other out of the other side of the white line outside the "river", pulled to their own team line is the winner. Then the other team for the invitation side, according to the same rules of song and dance, back and forth to invite each other until a team to the other team members all pulled over the "river" when the winner.

The trick to playing this game is to invite the party to choose the strength of some of the older, more skillful "big players", choose to be invited to pick the team in the arm strength of some of the frail younger. This game is very suitable for primary and secondary school students, both joyful and fun and exercise the children's arm strength, perseverance and courage.

Rolling Iron Ring

Rolling Iron Ring is a popular game in the 1940s and 1950s boys love to play. The ring is an iron circle with a circumference of about one foot, a thickness of about one centimeter, and a hook that is more than one foot long.

Method of play: can choose a flat field, the player holding the iron hook hooked iron ring, from one end of the field while running and pushing, so that the iron ring does not fall and keep rolling forward, has been rolled to the end of the field. Rolling iron ring can also be two or three people together for the competition, who do not fall in the middle and fast to the end of the winner.

This game requires a certain skill when pushing and rolling, to master the balance of force. Playing this game can make the children in the running at the same time exercise the perseverance and arm strength, is a very suitable for children's fitness sports.

Pick the champion

Pick the champion game in old Beijing, also known as the election of the "President", "leader". It was a game that children loved to play in the 1940s and 1950s in the hutongs or during physical education classes. Toys as long as the preparation of a volleyball or a large balloon can be remembered when I was a teenager, there is a rubber balloon, often with the neighbors of the partners to play this game.

Method of play: the number of participants is not limited, the first divided into two groups, a group of people outside to stand in a large circle, the other group of people scattered standing in the circle. After the game started by the outer circle of children take turns with the ball to the inner throw, each hit a person in the inner circle is hit by the person who exits the circle, by round-trip many times in the end was not hit by the person that is the "champion". Then the outer circle and the inner circle of the two groups of people to exchange venues, and then again.

This game children in the jumping in the exercise of the body for the dodge hit the ball wit flexible mind, is a very beneficial to the body and mind outdoor games.

This game is a very good outdoor game for the body and mind.