On February 4, 2022, the 24th Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou on the mainland. Athletes from all over the world will be able to show their style in skating, skiing, ice hockey and other sports. Since ancient times, the mainland people have attached great importance to the development of ice and snow sports. Many sports are not only beneficial, interesting, but also have a wide range of mass nature, so they have been passed down to this day.
In addition to the well-known activities such as building snowmen and snowball fights, in many parts of the northern part of the mainland, winter idle people love to run out against the wind and snow and skate on the natural ice rinks in the rivers, lakes and bays covered with solid ice.
Ice skating comes in many forms. One of the most common forms is called "slicing and slipping". This kind of movement can be carried out on the side of the road or in small ditches, because long ice lanes are often formed on the side of the road and in the small ditches after snow. When skating, first run a few steps in a place that is not too slippery, and then stop on the ice track with your feet laterally and side by side, and you can slide out of the distance by the action of inertia.
There is also a kind of "ice tart", find a steeper cliff slope that is frozen, and slide down the slope at a high speed, so as not to fall. This kind of movement was very popular in the Qing Dynasty. Chen Kangqi, a Qing dynasty, wrote in the "Chronicle of Long Qian": "The winter moon hits the ice tart, which is three or four feet high, and it is extremely slippery." Let the brave man wear furry pig's skin shoes, and its slippery is even worse, from the top to the top of the upright and down, so that the one who does not serve the ground wins. "There are also people who wear skates with iron bars or teeth on their feet and glide on the ice.
Pan Rongxi, a Qing dynasty, recorded in the "Jisheng in the Age of Emperor Jing": "Those who skate on the ice have iron teeth in their shoes, and the popular ice is like a star galloping, competing for the first bid to win, known as ice skating." The "Beijing Bamboo Branch Words" describes people's happy mood when skating: "Walking on the ice like the wind, shoe sole steel bar maker." Fall before the person into a smile, head south foot north hand west east. ”
In various parts of Shandong, people wear ice shoes that are relatively simple, just two ordinary clogs, each with two vertical thick wires embedded in the bottom. In addition to the clogs, a wooden stick with a nail at the bottom is carried in each hand. While skating, two wooden sticks landed on the ground, and with one force in both hands, the feet quickly slid forward. Hold on when the speed slows down so you can keep running on the ice. Skilled people can not only glide at high speed on the ice, but also make various difficult moves such as Golden Rooster Independence, Nezha Noisy Sea, And Double Flying Swallow, etc., to show their style. As the Qing Dynasty Bao Zhupo described in the poem "Ice Frolic": "Shuo Wind swept the ground and the river condensed, and the new ice was as flat as a stone." Who braves the cold to do ice play, and the iron is crossed to do the knee. Iron like a sword ridge ice like a mirror, with a foot sword grinding mirror line. It is as straight as a yaya, and the mirror surface of the sword ridge is scraped with sound. ”
Playing gyro, also known as "playing lazy wife" and "playing monkey", is a relatively popular children's ice sport. There are many kinds of gyroscopes. Simply put, a piece of log 5 to 6 cm long, the bottom end is twisted into a cone, and the tip of the cone is smashed with steel balls, and it is made. More complex, hollow on the side of the cylinder, leaving a long hole on the outside, so that the inside of a cavity, when rotating can make a "buzzing" sound, so called "sound gyro". When playing on ice, first wrap the gyroscope into the whip rope, and then the tip of the cone is down, and the whip rope is jerked violently, and the gyroscope rotates rapidly on the ice. When the rotation speed slows down, use the whip to pump it so that it rotates continuously. Some also attach a piece of drawing paper to the top of the gyroscope to rotate it into a beautiful pattern.
The history of playing gyroscopes is relatively long, and it was very popular as early as the Song Dynasty. The Song dynasty carefully recorded in the "Past Events of Wulin": "If the things that Ruofu'er plays are many, especially not all of them, such as xiang ginkgo, guessing sugar, blowing children, playing pampering, thousands of cars, roulette wheels..." The "thousand thousand cars" mentioned here is the gyroscope. By the late Ming Dynasty, the shape of the gyroscope was no different from today's. The Ming dynasty Liu Tong and Yu Yizheng's "Imperial Scenery and Material Strategy" said: "The gyroscope, the wood is like a small empty bell, the middle is solid and has no handle, and there is no bamboo ruler around the rope of the whip." Outstanding to the ground, sharply restrain its whip, a lock, the gyroscope turns, silent also, depending on its slow whip, turning without recurrence, turning the disease, just as Zhuo Li is on the ground, the top light rotates, and the shadow does not move. ”