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An ancient Han folk game activity in which a whip is used to continuously strike a conical object to make it rotate on a smooth surface. It has a long history, Shanxi Xiaxian Xiyin village Yangshao culture site (about five or six thousand years ago) in the pottery has been unearthed small gyro. The gyro has pottery, wooden, bamboo, stone a variety of, to wooden mostly. Wooden gyro is conical, on the big and small, cone end often add iron nails or steel balls. When playing, the rope around the gyro so that it spins on the ground, and then the rope to beat, so that it rotates constantly. The harder the whip the faster it spins, so it is called "pumping cheap bones".

Smoking gyro game is a prevalent in the 1940s boy's game, when the old Beijing children to smoke gyro called "smoking traitors", because the Japanese invaded the city of Beijing at that time, a lot of traitors to help abuse, they are the same as the Japanese devils to attract people hate, the people on the smoke gyro out of gas, while pumping while saying: "Smoking traitors, hit the traitors. "Smoke the traitors, beat the traitors, defeat Japan, beat the traitors." "Smoke traitors, fight traitors, stick noodles up a thousand." To solve the resentment of the heart.

History

China already had a gyro-like toy called the "Chien Chien" as early as the Song Dynasty. It was a needle-shaped object about three centimeters long that was placed in an ivory disk and spun with a hand, with the winner being the one who spun the longest. It was an aristocratic game used by concubines and courtesans to pass the time of boredom in the palace. The term "gyro" first appeared in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Dong, Yu Yi Zheng co-authored the "Imperial Capital Scenic Spectacle" has: "Yang Liu'er green, empty bell; Yang Liu'er live, pumping gyro; Yang Liu'er dead, kicking shuttlecock." The record. As for the gyro is not from the "thousand thousand" evolved, that is not available. But the Ming Dynasty when the gyro has become a child's toy, rather than the courtesans corner of the game. According to records, when the gyro is made of wood, solid and no handle, with a rope around a good, a throw a pump, gyro will be on the ground silent rotation. When it slowed down, then use the rope to whip it, to accelerate it, it can turn non-stop. This way of playing has been passed down for two to three hundred years, and was still practiced until the early years of the Republic of China.

Fitness for all

All over the country, there are a lot of places where "pumping the gyro" is called "playing the gyro", a change of words that better reveals the recreational nature of this game. Due to the participation of more and more people, enthusiasts actively promote exchanges, play gyro has gradually developed into a national fitness sports. Many cities, towns and villages, have appeared formally or informally organized to play the spectacular scene of the gyro. In some places in Hubei Province, the term "drawing a gyro" is "brushing the screws", revealing the bravado of the dialect.

June 9, 2010, Wuhan City, Wuhan, Hubei Province, Wujiashan Street, held the third national fitness community games, in the East and West Lake Five Huan Square, from the Wu Nan community, two community residents vigorously swinging the whip, a 23-kilogram gyroscope spinning, attracted the audience cheered.

In the Riverside Park in Yichang City, Hubei Province, when the weather is clear, you can always see men and women, young and old, brush the figure of the screw. People play while

Exchange of brush to snail experience, many elderly brush to snail not only enriches the spare time, but also exercise the body. For a long time, many old people have been suffering from frozen shoulder for many years, and their blood pressure is also normal. It is said that the State Ministry of Health for the health of the elderly, for them to set up a gyro association.

The gyro is usually played on the ground, but there are not touch the ground, only in the air rotation, and even some masters can play in the head of the gyro. Due to the frequent interaction, folk play a lot of "gyro masters".

Materials

The gyro is made of wood, bamboo, stone, pottery and brick and mortar. In recent times, wooden gyros are made with more iron nails or steel balls at the bottom of the tip that touches the ground to reduce friction.

There are different names for the gyro, such as "ground yellow cow", "old cow", "cow cow children", "diamond horn "and so on. Because of the fun of pumping gyro, especially in northern China, a winter river, lake and bay pits frozen on the thick ice, but also attracted a lot of children and teenagers to the ice to participate in this activity.

As early as the 10th century ago, China's Han Chinese folk children's games have spread to Korea, Japan and other countries, and has been handed down to the present.

Categories

(1) Hand-spinning gyro: As early as the Song Dynasty in China, a toy similar to a gyro appeared, which was then called "Qianqian". "Qianqian" is about three centimeters long needle-shaped object, placed in a disk made of ivory, twisted and rotated by hand, the competition who turned the longest.

(2) whip spinning gyro: hand spinning gyro in the Ming Dynasty became a favorite game of the Palace. Later, there is a new way to play: when it slows down the speed of rotation and there is a stop or crooked, allowed to use the sleeve brush, that is, with the help of external remedies. This "sleeve brush" action, later morphed into a small rope whip. With the modern whip spinning gyroscope is exactly the same.

(3) the sound of the gyro: the sound of the gyro is also called "empty bell".

Play

There are two ways for children to draw the gyro. The first is the horizontal method, while the second is the vertical method. There are two ways in which kids generally play the gyro in competition.

The first is called the split-side method, which is to divide the participants into two groups, and then everyone draws the gyro together to see which group's gyro falls to the ground first. The one that falls to the ground is called the "dead gyro" and is left to be slaughtered by the other side. The winning team will use their own gyros, raise them above their heads, aim them at the target, and strike them downward.

The second is the circle method, draw a circle on the ground, the center of the circle, and then draw a small circle, each person takes turns to their own gyro to the circle, so that the gyro can spin out. If the gyro has been fixed at a point to rotate, then the rope can be used to circle it out, as long as it reaches outside the circle is still rotating, are not considered to be it "dead". If it stops spinning inside the circle, or if it stops spinning once it is jerked down, it is considered dead, and should be placed in the middle of the circle to be punished by others. If the gyro that punishes someone else also stops inside the circle, it will be placed in the small circle and punished by others. If you are lucky not to be hit, or hit without being disintegrated, you can take out a gyro, with horizontal pumping method, will be their own small circle of gyros waiting to die out of the circle.

Thanks to the advancement of time and the different materials used in the production of gyros, people play all kinds of gyros, and there are different ways of playing them.