What toys (games) did adults (post-40s, post-60s and post-70s) have when they were young? [Note Description] (Name)

The first one is called push iron ring, also called rolling iron ring! The second one is called gyro, also called Dora. In southern Fujian, it is called "Gan Le".

Bowling is an ancient traditional children's game, which was popular in China in 1960s and 1970s. Players hold U-shaped iron bars or wires and push a black iron ring with a diameter of about 66 cm to run forward. Some also put two or three small rings on the iron ring to make the sound louder when rolling.

Make a circle with wire, then make an iron hook with a long handle and push the wire circle away. The movement of the iron ring is difficult and requires certain skills. Both individual activities and team competitions are acceptable. There are 50-meter or 100-meter races, 100-meter obstacles (such as going around trees and crossing single-plank bridges), and 4× 100-meter relays.

Game status quo

With the gradual enrichment of children's modern life, especially the increasing number of motor vehicles, the activities of pushing iron rings have been greatly restricted, and the activities of pushing iron rings, which once had a long history and a broad mass base, have become increasingly cold.

Starting from the goal of broadening the extension of physical education textbooks, promoting national traditional sports culture, recommending sports with regional characteristics, and exercising students' physique, children can be encouraged to participate in hoop rolling activities on campus, and children in mountainous areas can also be encouraged to do hoop rolling activities on field paths on the premise of strengthening safety education.

Because the iron ring pushing is a traditional national sport that is beneficial to physical and mental health, it has been kept in the national games. It is not difficult to make an iron ring, but people with a fast pace of life no longer look for materials to weld, and spend a day or two making an irregular and unsightly iron ring for children to see.