How did the name of the game clock chop kitchen knife come from?

The song entitled "The Bell Chops the Kitchen Knife" is a children's collective game popular in the Central Plains Mandarin area (including most of Henan, Guanzhong of Shaanxi, western and southern Shandong) from 1950s to the early 20th century.

In this childhood game, there are two teams of people, hand in hand, in a row, facing each other at a distance. One team shouted: robot spirit, chopping with a kitchen knife, who will pick from your side, and the other team said, pick.

The other team said to pick XXX, and then the man rushed to the other team and rushed away from them. If they wash away, they will take a person back. If they can't wash away, they will stay in this team. When there is only one person left in one team, it is over. This game was played in the 1980s and 1990s.

This song uses "Mandarin" throughout, and the singing language is Shaanxi dialect in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. It sings the Central Plains Mandarin-Cai Lu Pian-Jining dialect, which has aroused many Central Plains people after 70, 80 and 90.

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According to research, the saying that "the machine bell cuts the kitchen knife" is a "slip of the tongue" handed down by friends. In fact, it should be "golden pheasant, carrying broadsword." Let me pick at home, pick who, pick Yumei, Yumei is not at home, pick three sisters, and my sister can't go, pick * * * (the name of a person in the other camp of the game) "This describes the military commander when singing opera, with two pheasant feathers tied behind him and carrying a broadsword.

After that, all the words are nursery rhymes that challenge each other in the game. The title of the song is "Machine Bell, Chopping Kitchen Knife", and there are also names such as collective chopping wood knife, Zijinling anti-broadsword, Jijiling carrying broadsword and Zijinling carrying broadsword. It is a simple children's game in the Central Plains, and it is a classic entertainment project for children after 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s ... The rules of the game are as follows.

It is also reported that the source of this game nursery rhyme is the scene of the Fifth Covenant (also known as the Twelve Widows' Western Expedition) in Henan Opera. The feather of golden pheasant is tied behind the military commander in the play, and the broadsword is also the broadsword that She Taijun invited before going out to war in the play, while Yumei (whose legal name is different) is Saburo's wife Zhu Yumei.

There are three sisters in the back, facing the daughters of twelve widows. The scene of the game coincides with the scene where the battlefields challenge each other and the military commanders are challenged by each other and then go out to fight.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Machine Rings the Bell and Chops the Chopper