Can you shake it and shake the origin of diabolo?

Diabolo is a wonderful flower in the hundred gardens of Han traditional culture. Diabolo was called "Hu Knock" in ancient times, also called "Earth Bell", "Empty Bell" and "Wind Gourd", and Jinan was commonly called "Old Cow". Diabolo is also called "vibration", "shaking the ground bell" and "pulling the bell". Han folk entertainment activities. It is popular all over the country, especially in Tianjin, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

Diabolo has a long history in China. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zhi wrote a poem "Diabolo Fu". In the Song Dynasty, Song Jiang wrote a poem of seven words and four sentences: "One voice is low and the other is high, and the loud voice is clear and clear. There is a heroic force in the air, and no one has been in vain. "

There is a nursery rhyme "Willow is green, bells are empty" in the Ming Dynasty's A Brief View of the Imperial Capital, which proves that this game has a long history in China. Ordinary diabolo is divided into uniaxial and biaxial. The shafts are hollow, and there are four or five holes in each shaft, in which sawdust is used as a flute to make sound. There is a cylindrical handle on the shaft, and the middle part of the handle is slightly thinner. Diabolo is not only made of wood and bamboo, but also can be replaced by teapot covers and other utensils. Hanging diabolo on a string tied to the top of two sticks, the player pulls a stick back and forth in each hand, which can produce rotation and hum with the speed.

In the Ming Dynasty, Liu Dong and Yu Yi described the method of making and playing an empty clock (diabolo) in Volume II of Scenery of the Imperial Capital. In the Qing Dynasty, an old man sitting and watching wrote in unofficial history in Qing Dynasty: "There are so-called empty bells in children's toys in Beijing, that is, bells from other provinces. Bamboo tubes are used at both ends, pillars are used in the middle, and music is played with ropes. Only Shi Jing's empty clock is round and flat, with a shaft and two wheels. Its voice is clearer and longer than that produced in other provinces. "

In the Qing Dynasty (A.D.1644 ~1911), Diabolo became a popular acrobatic program. On the basis of the original patterns, people have created many new patterns and difficult techniques. Beautiful dance and beautiful accompaniment music are incorporated into the performance, which further enhances people's aesthetic taste. In the process of development, artists not only perform shaking traditional wheel diabolo, but also design gyro diabolo, and can also use teapot lids, small vases and other utensils as shaking props to perform.

The most amazing thing is that in the early years of the Republic of China (A.D. 19 12 ~ 1949), a folk artist Tian appeared in Tianjin, north of China, who used wine gourd as a prop. Tianjin was the first place to invent and make diabolos, and the diabolos produced in Tianjin were famous at home and abroad.