01. Introduction
The ancients worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, the lives of ordinary people were farmers as the main, the market was bought and sold, and other times were not monotonous, and the entertainment and game methods were also diverse, becoming an important cultural activity of the Chinese nation. The game is a reaction of folk life, thanks to the abundance of people, living environment and political background, leisure life will pursue life entertainment.
The primitive era will dance and sing around the fire, to more than two thousand years of feudal society, more rich forms of game have been developed, from the way of physical entertainment to wisdom competition, the old ancestors invented games such as chess and cards, kicking, shooting, etc., the influence handed down from ancient times to the present, so the life of the ancients is not monotonous and boring, and some contemporary people also love to indulge in it.
02. Take stock of chinese puzzle games throughout the ages
Ancient Chinese games also had an enlightening effect on intelligence, and even in modern society, they were very mentally challenging. In ancient times, the way of entertainment for elegant people was chess and cards, combined with the current technology can also play such games on the Internet, like the game of Go, in recent years there have also been intelligent robots and artificial chess situations.
(1) Chess
China can be said to be the originator of chess, one of the most representative chess culture is chess, Chinese chess has a long history, there are relevant records in the Warring States period, but there are also many theories about the origin of chess, here is not to introduce one by one. Chess is competitive, the two occupy two sides of the Chu boundary, hold the chess pieces of the two sides to attack each other, and finally defeat the enemy army for victory, with military implications. A storyline about Meng Tianjun in "Saying Yuan, Shan Shu", fighting chess, watching songs and dances, shows that playing chess at that time had also become one of the popular games in folk life. Gradually, older children also learn to play chess, inspiring intellectual games.
(2) Go
Secondly, let's introduce Go, in the 19 line segments to divide the uniform interval intersection, free layout when playing chess, this is also a more complex test of intelligence board game, Qin and Han Period, you can find about the exchanges between China and Vietnamese countries, Zheng He under the West and other countries, but also spread Go to other countries in the game.
(3) Mahjong
Mahjong is not unfamiliar to everyone, at the beginning from the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong to Beijing and Tianjin, in the spread to all parts of the country, the people of Sichuan are inseparable from mahjong at twelve o'clock. It can also have fun and gamble, and it is one of the most influential card games in the mainland.
In addition to chess, Go, mahjong, there are other folk chess and cards, some of which have been lost for a long time, but these games were invented in ancient times and became one of the entertainment activities for adults and children. Mahjong, landlord card games and the board games mentioned above, with the development of science and technology, there are also programs developed on computers and mobile phones, and they can be played face-to-face on the Internet, but their game design and principles are unchanged.
03. One of the items of military training, the widely circulated sports game - Keju
Keju is the current social kicking ball, which was born in the ancient Warring States period, and during the Song Dynasty, Keju developed into a national movement regardless of class. During the Song Dynasty, the people's living standards improved day by day, and there were also leisure to participate in games, and emperors such as Song Taizu and Song Taizong also loved Keju, and natural officials would learn to participate in the games they did not miss playing with the emperor. As a result, the game was popularized throughout the country, inside and outside the palace, and even the people were judged by Keju.
It is not surprising that this activity can be popular, and many people participate in the dating culture. Being able to strengthen the body in sports is also one of the military training projects for training soldiers. Keju has a history of more than 2,300 years and is also one of the intangible cultural heritage. It spread to Japan in the East, then to Europe, and developed into the football we have now in Britain.
04. The ancients were mercurial, and only eight buckets can show their talents in the game
Speaking of language games, the ancients in addition to poetry painting, couplets, in the festival will also play guessing lantern riddles, Lantern Festival, Spring Lantern Appreciation Conference, guessing lantern riddles was originally a riddle game, there is a story behind, there is a poor show to want to borrow riddles, hinting at riddling a rich man who loves to fool and exploit villagers, so in the spring supper festival night carrying a lantern, and attaching a riddle "the tip of the head is as white as silver, the argument is not half a millimeter, the eyes grow to the buttocks, the light recognizes the clothes do not recognize people", the riddle is "needle", But when everyone saw it, they thought of this rich man, which caused everyone to laugh. Later, it was imitated by writing a riddle on a lantern, and it is still popular today. Whether it is daily common sense, or ancient knowledge, ancient and modern allusions, living objects can be used to make guessing puzzles.
05. Games derived from life and production
Projection class
There are many projection games, all of which are set a target, and then aimed and hit, the items used for throwing are not the same, so the name of the game is also many, such as bow and arrow shooting, slingshot, throwing pot, are daily and simple production can be played. Throwing pots with arrows has also become a casual game during a feast. The ancient royal palace also had archery activities, horseback hunting, which is also used in projection games in real life. Shooting was derived as a weapon in military warfare during times of war.
Expanding a short story about archery techniques - a hundred steps through The Yang, there is a young man who thinks that he is highly skilled in archery, and can accurately shoot leaves a hundred steps away, proud of it, and show off everywhere. Later, when he met an oil seller, the old man calmly took out a copper coin and placed it above the mouth of the oil drum. The oil from the scoop was skillfully and quickly poured into the pot, and the copper coin was not touched by the oil at all, but was used to warn Yuji that he could be skillful.
Competitive games gladiatorial class
Cockfighting bullfighting crickets, competitive games to pass the daily time, like fighting crickets are now rare, but often seen in costume dramas, two people in the tea house drink tea between, with a ceramic bowl put two crickets, pick a branch, you can compete. Crickets are divided into males and females, fighting crickets are only males, which is also divided into seasons, because the lifespan of crickets is short, about three months, so generally after October, the number is reduced, it is more difficult to find crickets for entertainment. This competitive game, with bets placed by onlookers, turns into a dueling casino. But there are also people who meet friends with insects and only have fun in their daily lives.
The game of cockfighting is divided into two kinds, in the "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" Xiao Yanzi also went to watch the cockfighting, that is, put two chicken pens in a range to fight each other, the crowd watched and coaxed, a little ferocious, and what remained was victory. There is another game of cockfighting, also called bumping crutches, standing on one foot, the other foot coiled up to hit the other party, and the person who falls loses first.
Played by the family
In the history of "Han Feizi Wai Chu said that the upper left", it was written: "Husband and baby phase and drama, with dust as rice, with paint as soup, with wood as a purse, but in the evening will return to the payer, dust and rice soup, can play and can not eat also." Children play the role of parents, rice, soup and meat, and replace them with existing materials such as dirt, water and wood, and use natural and ubiquitous things as tools for play. Then in the evening, they each went home for dinner. Modern children also love home games, a variety of mini from tableware and furniture supplies, which is a kind of yearning for children to grow up in their own lives, from ancient times to the present.
06. Summary
The invention of game activity is the people's livelihood response of a dynasty, and if there is war or hunger, there will be no leisure to study the game. In the Qing Dynasty, there were also scholars who wrote a "game sanwei" to record the games of different eras, which is a rare game "encyclopedia" in history not only games, but also inventions and experiments, games are also closely related to life, such as fishing and fishing and mosquito repellent methods, etc., and so on, the game in addition to entertainment, but also played an enlightening and development of production, promote aesthetics and learning, but also let more game culture be recorded by the world known, many have become our current intangible cultural heritage.
Games have developed to the present way of diversity, to prevent game addiction has also become one of the parents in the education of children, online games are numerous, as long as they are not addicted to it is not all bad, appropriate entertainment can alleviate mental stress, games exercise people's reaction ability, to a certain extent, there are also social functions of interactive dating. When we look back at the ancient entertainment methods again, there are more games to choose from to the present day, in addition to video games.
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