The mallet is a kind of wood toy, the maker will be the wood on the boring machine to spin out the shape of each part, assemble, and then according to the needs of four or five times the color. The mallet is hollow, filled with stones or corn, and shakes up with the sound of "cheering", so it is called a mallet, which has strong regional characteristics.
Legend has it that the production of lychee wood toys in Quzhuang Village, Yanji Town, Suiyang District, originated from the end of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 100 years. In the 1970s and 1980s, the production of wood toys in Quzhuang Village entered the peak period of production, and the families spun around the car, and the households were busy with painting, radiating to several surrounding villages. The wood toys produced here are very popular at the surrounding ancient temple fairs of the First Moon and are deeply loved by people. At present, the technology of tweezer wood toys is difficult to arouse the interest of young people, and there are only three or four still making them in the whole village, and the makers are all over 70 years old, most of whom have learned to make such toys since they were teenagers. The scene of the past when "every house is ringing and every household is busy with painting" has become a memory.
Source: Shangqiu Daily