What is the origin of the flower rope?

Flower rope is a kind of rope popular in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Fan Hua rope is a popular children's game in 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It is a sports game with simple materials, brain-strengthening and intelligence-improving. Also known as "untwisting", "turning rope", "turning thread", "turning flower drum", "weaving rope", "picking rope" and "beating cakes and fruits". Tu, Manchu and Mongolian call it "releasing tension", Inner Mongolia and North China call it "releasing hook" or "releasing hook", and in Hangzhou it is called "cross stitch".

Material and production of flower rope: key rope, plastic thread and cotton thread for hanging curtains. Tie the two ends of the rope into a loop.

Game play;

Single player play: wrap the rope around your hands, around your fingers, put it on or take it off, then turn it over and pull the rope out of your fingers with various patterns.

Two-player game: one person weaves the rope loop into a pattern with his fingers, and the other person turns it into different patterns with his fingers, alternating with each other until one side can't turn any more.