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What games did ancient children often play?

The games that ancient children often played are as follows:

1, push jujube mill

A picture of a baby playing in the autumn court by a painter in the Song Dynasty depicts two children playing a game called "pushing jujube mill". Cut the jujube horizontally, then expose the core inside, then insert three bamboo sticks into the support, and rotate the jujube on it to find balance.

2. Objectives

Ancient children also had many toys that could make sounds, mainly pottery whistle, mud whistle, clay figurine and so on. Most ancient whistles are made in the shape of animals, such as cows and chickens.

3. Bamboo horse

There is also a toy called "bamboo horse", which is a bamboo pole that folk children ride when playing games. Folk also call it "Happy Lantern", "Living Lantern" or "Bamboo Lantern". Bamboo horse is made of bamboo sticks, covered with several layers of thick paper, coated with tung oil, with bells around its neck, a white apron under it and Mercedes-Benz legs on it.

4, fighting grass

Cross the found grass in pairs, hook the petiole and pull hard. That's right. When I was a child, pulling weeds in physical education class was an ancient struggle.

5. Pumping gyro

"Willow green, empty bell; In ancient times, spinning the top was a fixed game for children in spring. In the Song Dynasty, there were two kinds of gyroscopes. One is called "Qian Qian Car", just like the current desktop gyro. It is a needle-like object, small and exquisite, rotating on an ivory plate or turtle shell.

In ancient times, there were many interesting games for children to play, such as flying kites, male prostitutes, cloth tigers, lanterns, nine-ring, Huarong Road and so on. We still play many games, some of which are very challenging, which shows the wisdom of the ancients.