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What are the traditional toys?

Traditional toys are:

1, lanterns

New Year's Eve and festivals paste lanterns is the history of China's folk traditions and folklore characteristics, paper lanterns is also one of the main folk traditional children's toys. Every New Year and festival days, people paste lanterns for children a few days in advance. In ancient times, the folk mostly used bamboo and wood to tie the skeleton of the lanterns, and the outside was glued with paper or silk, and the paper and silk were then painted with traditional folk pictures.

2, mud man

China's southern folk widely circulated mud man toys, the most representative is the Wuxi mud man. People use rubber clay as raw materials, hand kneaded into shape, dried and painted with color, mudman toys are completed. There are many forms of clay figures, representing different auspicious meanings. The fat Ah Fu means many children and good fortune, and the old life-star hopes for a long life and so on.

3, nine consecutive rings

Nine consecutive rings is China's folk tradition of children's intellectual toys, the circulation of the region is very wide. The famous novel "Dream of the Red Chamber" mentioned many times in the nine consecutive rings toy. This toy is composed of a base frame, a handle frame and nine metal sticks with small circles at one end. Children play nine linked rings, according to a certain law will be nine metal sticks strung on the base frame, so that the metal ring ring connected, buckle knot.

4, windmills

Windmills are unique to the northern region of traditional folk toys. Every temple fair or market, there are people tied many windmills, sold to children to play. After the liberation, the windmill tide by tide scarce. In recent years, with the development of the commodity economy and cultural life, folk windmill toys and the trend of revival.

5,? Tangram

The tangram is an ancient traditional Chinese intellectual toy, as the name suggests, is composed of seven boards. And these seven boards can be put together into many shapes more than 1600 kinds.