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Pumping a gyro, commonly known as "pumping cheap bones", is a traditional folk game. An ancient Chinese children's game activity, with a whip continuously hit a cone pumping gyro

objects, so that it rotates on the smooth ground. 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".　Drawing gyro game is a prevalent in the 1940s boys game, when the old Beijing children to draw gyro called "draw traitors", because the Japanese invaded Beijing at that time, many traitors to help abuse, they and the Japanese devils as much as the hate, the people on the drawing of the gyro out of anger, while pumping the same time, said: "Draw traitors, fight traitors," and "Draw traitors, fight traitors," said. "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.

China as early as the Song Dynasty, there has been a toy similar to the gyro, called "thousand thousand". It is a needle-shaped object about three centimeters long, put pumping gyro

in the ivory disk, with a hand to support the rotation, the competition who turned the longest for the winner. This is the concubines used to pass the time of boredom in the Palace of the aristocratic game. The term "gyro" first appeared in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Dong, Yu Yi Zheng co-authored the "Imperial Capital Scenery" has: "Yang Liu Er green, empty bell; Yang Liu Er live, pumping gyro; Yang Liu Er dead, kick 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, give it speed, it can be rotated non-stop. This kind of play has been passed on for two or three hundred years, until the early years of the Republic of China, there is such a play.