What are the traditional toys?

New Year's Eve and festivals paste lanterns is the history of China's folk traditions and folklore features, paper lanterns is also one of the main folk traditional children's toys. Every New Year and festival days, people paste lanterns for children a few days in advance. In the old days, people used bamboo and wood to make the skeleton of the lanterns, and the outside was covered with paper or silk cloth, which was then painted with traditional folk pictures. Nowadays, people mostly use wire as the skeleton of lanterns, tied into various shapes, including five-pointed stars, goldfish, jade rabbits, fairies and so on. Candles are lit inside the lanterns, and children hold up the lanterns at night, playing in groups of three or five, with flickering candlelight, colorful and very beautiful. Folk lanterns are very elaborate paste, different shapes have different meanings, most of them indicate good luck. The goldfish said that the five grains, year after year; Jade Rabbit on behalf of the peace of mind, and so on.

2, mud man

China's southern folk widely circulated mud man toys, the most representative is the Wuxi mud man. People use rubber clay as raw materials, hand kneaded into shape, dried and painted with color, clay man toys are completed. There are many forms of clay figures, representing different auspicious meanings. The fat Ah Fu means many children and good fortune, the old life-star hopes for a long life and so on. In recent years, people will make the clay figure hollow, hollow inside can store coins. Children can play with it, but also can use it to store coins.

3, nine consecutive rings

Nine consecutive rings is China's folk tradition of children's intellectual toys, the circulation of the region is very wide. The famous novel "Dream of the Red Chamber" mentioned many times in the nine consecutive rings toy. This toy is composed of a base frame, a handle frame and nine metal sticks with small circles at one end. Children play nine consecutive rings, according to a certain law will be nine metal stick string in the base frame, so that the metal ring ring connected, buckle knot. Children hold the end of the handle frame in one hand, hold the first and second ring of the base frame in the other hand, according to certain rules, their own thinking, set or unset, until the nine metal sticks and their rings on the whole part of the departure. Nine consecutive rings in the set in the solution, solution in the set, its flavor is endless. In the set of rings and unlock the ring of the game process, each set of a ring, you must first unlock its front has been set of the ring; unlock the ring process, each unlock a ring, you must first unlock its front has been set of the ring. Children in the game inspired thinking, know the reasoning of step by step, exercise the dexterity of the hand .

4, windmills

Windmills are unique to the northern region of traditional folk toys. Every temple fair or market, there are people tied many windmills, sold to children to play. After the liberation, the windmill tide by tide scarce. In recent years, with the development of the commodity economy and cultural life, folk windmill toys and the trend of revival.

The main raw materials for windmills are broomcorn millet and paper. People with fine broomcorn stalks tied into a length of about three inches, width of about two inches of the long box, where the long side of the side of the long side of the long side of about two feet, easy to grasp, with broomcorn gimlets made into a circle, with a small section of broomcorn stalks to do the wheel, and then many colorful paper strips will be the center of the circle and the wheel is connected to form a wheel, and then finally with a fine bamboo skewer through the wheel heart and embedded in the long broomcorn stalks into a long box, the formation of the windmill. Children holding up the windmill, running into the wind, the wind blowing wheel, very fun. Some people also install a small drum on the windmill, and the wind wheel linkage. When the wind wheel rotates, the drumsticks are driven, and the sound of the drum is crisp and clear