How to play traditional games

Traditional games were popular in the 70's, 80's and even 90's, such as playing snail, slingshot, jumping rope, watching West Lake, jumping rope, flicking stones, wife's fist, eagles and chickens, fighting crickets, rolling the iron ring, unraveling the tautness, playing hide-and-seek, and so on.

1, rolling iron ring

Rolling iron ring, the old traditional children's games, in the twentieth century in the 1960s and 1970s prevalent throughout China. Players hand pinch the top head is "U" shaped iron rod or wire, push a diameter of 66 centimeters or so of black iron ring to run forward. Some also put two or three small rings on the ring to make it louder when it rolled.

Make a loop with the wire, then make a long-handled iron hook and push this wire loop to roll along. The movements of the wire loop are difficult and require some skill. Individual events and group competitions are available. There are 50 meters or 100 meters racing, there are 100 meters obstacles (such as around the bushes, over the log bridge), 4 × 100 meters relay and other competitions.

2, hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek is a game, also known as touch blind. That is, blindfolded to find the hiding game. The earliest just a children's game. The rules of the game is very simple, the first selected a range, everyone after guessing or a certain rule, selected a person first blindfolded or behind everyone's back counting, can be long or short, and others must find a place to hide during this time, after the time to go to find other people, the first person to find the person who is looking for the next round.

The person who is not found and finally returns to the starting point without being found by the finder will not participate in the second round of guessing and will become the hider directly. The game may be repeated.

3, jumping leather band

Jumping leather band, also known as jumping rubber band, jumping rubber rope, jumping monkey leather band, is a kind of suitable for children's folk games, about popular in the 1950s to 1980s.

Leather band is made of rubber with elasticity of the thin rope, about 3 meters long, the leather band is straight and fixed, you can step back and forth jumping. Can be three to five people to play together, can also be divided into two groups of competition, jumping and singing is very interesting. First by two people each take one end to stretch the band, others take turns jumping, according to the prescribed action, the completion of the winner, jumping in the middle of the wrong or did not hook the band, another person to jump.

4, flick stone

Also known as "scratch", "flick stone". Folk children's games. Ming Liu Dong, Yu Yizheng "Emperor Beijing Scenery - spring field" cloud: "is also the month, women idle, hand five pills, and throw, and pick up, and bear, said grabbing a penny. In the past, some young girls often play flick, Yiyang Shangxiang play is; with five small stones, the first five grains of stone in the hand, throw one of the children, while the remaining four children thrown on the desktop or on the ground, commonly known as "put the child".

And then began to pick up the son, that is, throw on a son, then down to pick up a son, and then throw on a son then down to pick up two sons, in turn pick up the end; and then the four sons are scattered on the table, throw on a son then down to pick up all four sons; and finally all four sons scattered on the table, throw on a son then down to pick up the other side of the selected two sons, and then stack the rest of the two sons, and then down to pick up the. The winner is the one who completes the above procedure successfully. Played by the son, after a change in the small cloth bag filled with sand, the flick game, few people in the city to play.

5, hit the corner of the screw

Anciently known as "pumping gyro". Commonly known as "playing mice". Widely circulated, the Ming Dynasty, Liu Dong, Yu Yizheng, "Imperial Capital Scenery" has been recorded. Horn snail with a small wood cut into a bull's-eye tip of the pagoda-shaped, about two inches long. Players holding a small bamboo rod tied with a cloth towel, the first cloth towel wrapped around the wooden horn screw, to the ground flat open, the horn snail in the underground clockwise rotation (left-handed rod is the reverse clock), from time to time with a cloth towel pumping horn snail, but also by the two relative to pumping the horn snail, so that the two horns of the snail collision, the longer the turn for the win.