What is the pumping gyro?

Smoking gyro is a traditional folk game in China. Gyro, also known as gyro, is a large under the small cone toy, cone end often add iron nails or steel balls to enhance stability, reduce friction, cone often decorated with a few rings around the ring of color, to enhance the sense of view. There are pottery, wooden, bamboo, stone a variety of wooden majority. In addition to make a whip whip, with about two feet long a small wooden stick, at one end of the tie on a hemp rope or a thin strip of leather, cloth. Play first whip rope in the gyro tightly around a few times, and then withdraw the whip to drive the gyro, so that the gyro cone end of the ground rotating, when the gyro is weak deceleration and then continue to use the whip to make it keep rotating, the longer the better. Another sounding gyro and diamond-shaped gyro, made of bamboo and wood hollow cylinder, the center through the spinning shaft. Cylinder body open with a narrow slit, when turning due to airflow and can sound. Diamond-shaped gyro is small at both ends, large in the middle, with a rope around the body of the screw. When playing, the screw will be thrown to the ground, and then the rope will be drawn to make the spiral turn. If it is competitive, there are a variety of rules: either the initial launch of the gyroscope skills; or the competition continues to pumping skills, all to rotate the length of time to determine the winner.

The game of pulling a gyro is full of childish fun and good for physical and mental health. It seems to be simple, but in fact, in the production, pumping skills, venue and other aspects of quite a lot of attention. First of all, the gyro to the right size, too big and bulky, effort, too small easy to turn fly, not stable; if it is made of wood, but also hard wood to stand up to the beating; secondly, the length of the whip to the right thickness, whip thick gyro will be hit by the fly, but also can not be drawn to the kind of crisp and pleasant sound of the whip; whip fine powerless, but also easy to break; whip is too short, wrapped around the number of laps in the gyro on the fewer, the hair of gyroscope will appear to be insufficient power; the whip is also not too long! Otherwise, it is difficult to control the strength of the whip, the best length is able to wrap the gyro on three or four turns. Furthermore, the beating skills, start to be smooth and swift, continue to beat the strength, speed, rhythm should be just right, the human nerve coordination, judgment accuracy and power have high requirements. In addition, pumping gyro on the venue requirements are also high. The site should be spacious, the site is small to play not open, there is interference between each other, you may not be able to draw me, I draw you; the ground should be flat, potholes in the ground gyro can not play, or turn not long. Rural houses and harvest field is the ideal place, the modern city of leisure plaza is also a big stage to show play skills. Now on the market to do the gyro is very sophisticated, some are equipped with colorful lights, rotating colorful lights on the ground, with the gyro rotating angle and speed, drawing a circle on the ground layer by layer of colorful light, adding a lot of fun to the game. Playing gyro with others than the gyro of the beautiful or not is secondary, than the length of time the gyro rotation is fundamental.

The gyro is a small toy, but the history is very long. 1926, in Shanxi Xiaxian Xiyin village Yangshao culture sites have been unearthed in a small pottery gyro, four or five thousand years ago. In the Song Dynasty, concubines and courtesans in the emergence of a noble game, the name is called "thousand thousand". It is a needle-shaped object about three centimeters long, placed in a disk made of ivory, supported by the hand to rotate, the competition who turned the longest, who is the winner, which is considered to be the hand spinning gyroscope stage. Now there are also acorns made of hand spinning gyroscope, with a straight a short thin stick into the center of the acorn cover, play with the thumb index finger pinch the head of the stick, a quick twist, landing on the desktop or flat ground, to see who rotates the most smoothly, the longest time. Ming Dynasty Liu Dong's "Imperial Capital Scenery" recorded a nursery rhyme: "Yang Liu'er green, put the empty bell; Yang Liu'er live, pumping gyro; Yang Liu'er dead, kick shuttlecock." It can be seen that the gyro has become a common toy for children. There are also many common names for the gyro, such as "ground yellow cow", "old cow", "cattle cattle", "diamond", "cheap bones" (because the harder the gyro is beaten, the faster it spins, hence the name), etc. In the 1940s, the old Beijing gyro was known as a "cheap bone", and the old Beijing gyro was known as a "cheap bone". In the 1940s, the old Beijing children also called the gyroscope pumping "pumping traitors", because the Japanese invaded the city of Beijing at that time, a number of traitors for the tiger, they and the Japanese devils as much as people hate, the people will draw gyroscopes out of anger, while pumping the same time, said: "pumping traitors, fighting traitors, defeating Japan, fighting traitors. Beat Japan." "Pumping traitors, fighting traitors, stick noodles up a thousand."