What is the ancient saying "playing a thousand children"?

In ancient times, people met in order to show respect for people, usually perform some rituals, see the emperor to three kowtow nine times,

Seeing the elders of the big officials to kneel, see the generation to bow. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a kind of left knee bending forward, the right leg backward, the upper body slightly forward,

the right hand downward movement, called "playing the thousand children".

Ta Qian'er is the most common form of greeting, between bowing and kneeling (which can be divided into Ta Qian'er,

Ask for peace, ask for peace, and kneel for peace). "

"Ask for peace", "Kneel for peace", "Squat for peace").

There is also another record.

The salute for men in the Qing Dynasty. The right hand hangs down, the left leg bends forward at the knee, and the right leg is bent.

This group of people came and greeted each other, some of them played Ch'ien-er, some of them bowed, and most of them played Ch'ien-er more.

There are two ways to describe the origin of "playing Ch'ien-er": one is that "playing Ch'ien-er" was originally a military ritual in the Ming Dynasty. According to the "Daming canon", the Ming Dynasty, the whole country's commanding officer and all the guards are using this ritual. The reason is that the soldiers armor in the body, inconvenient to the superior officer kneeling, adapt to bend a knee or half a knee. Over time, it became a fixed etiquette. Jianzhou female real learned this ritual, Nurhachu after the establishment of the country to retain. Eight banners of the family's elders to see elders, slaves to see the master, as well as in the family and friends meet, all this ritual.

The second: this ritual was produced in the Liao Jin era, is the Manchu people to honor the elders, or subordinate to the superior implementation of the etiquette, the senior to meet to show respect for the salute is also performed. There is a difference between men and women in the ritual of "hitting a thousand children". Manchu women like to wear a kind of shoes called flowerpot bottom, wearing this shoe, walking activities are not very flexible, therefore, they are in the line of the thousand children salute, usually left and right feet slightly staggered back and forth, hands folded at the waist gently squat.