What is "Garaha"?

Garaha is a Manchu word, which translates to "skeleton", meaning kneecap. The name "crashing" is actually playing with the kneecaps of animals, mainly pigs, but also sheep and other animals. In the area of Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, it is called "Bone", and the game of playing with bones is called "Crash Bone".

Crash is an onomatopoeia, as in "crash". In Tongliao's colloquial language, it is called "crash". In Tongliao's spoken language, it has become a verb. The word "crash" reflects the sound and movement of Tongliao's children spreading out the garaha very quickly, and very accurately. This is because, in order to play a game like Garakha, you have to "crash" it over and over again to get rid of it.

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Crashing Garaha was formed by the ancestors of the Manchu people in the course of historical development. Since the folk game originated from the public, it was born in the soil and was easy to be accepted and disseminated by the common people, so it was spread very widely, even spreading all over the Central Plains after the Qing Dynasty entered the country. The four sides of Garaha are called "needle", "donkey", "pit", "storm", using the four The four sides are called "Pin'er", "Donkey'er", "Pit'er", and "Storm'er", and different combinations of the four sides are used to "play" and "catch" respectively.

Conflicting crashes also involve the use of cloth pockets, which are made of six pieces of cloth of the same size and different colors sewn together and filled with buds, rice, beans or soybeans. When you play, throw the pocket upwards and then grab the same garaha from memory, catching the pocket as it falls. There are many ways to play, young boys play is called playing Garaha, Garaha three or five piles or more piles on the ground.

The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Crash Garaha