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Walking kiln, a game that children loved to play when they were children------- swallow language
The sky was just bright, and the inspiration came to me, remembering a game that girls loved to play as a child------ go to the kiln. Have you heard of it? If you haven't even heard of it, it means that you are not a post-60s or 70s, and it also means that your childhood is certainly not raised in the countryside. If you have heard of it, and you often played when you were a child, then you are definitely a fellow person, itchy heart, itchy hands, scene reproduction, how about a game?
If you are on the edge of the ground, in the shade, just resting with your friends, and you happen to have a shovel in your hand, dig ten small pits in the ground side by side called kilns. The size of the kiln can be put into a fist, the kiln is dug well, and your little partner will pick fifty small stones of moderate size as a kiln, and put five in a kiln. If you want to walk in the kiln in front of your home or on the side of the road, you can't dig a pit, then pick up a stone and make ten circles side by side instead of the kiln. Now I wonder, why can I pick up small stones of moderate size everywhere in my hometown when I was a child? If you pick up a stone with a good appearance and are reluctant to throw it after walking, then go home and let your mother sew a small cloth bag to pack it, cut the grass and put it in the basket, and take it out when you want to play, which is very convenient.
The two men crouched relative to each other next to the small kiln, wrapped the scissor hammer, and the winning party grabbed the five stones in any small kiln, and began to lose them in a clockwise direction, and a small kiln threw a stone, and after throwing it, they grabbed the stones of the small kiln next to them and continued to throw them one by one, until a small kiln was childless, that is, there was an empty kiln. Then the stone in the small kiln behind the empty kiln is what you won. Then it is the other party's turn to lose the child, in the same way, until the empty kiln appears, and the other party wins the stone behind the empty kiln. And so on, until all the stones in the small kiln are emptied, and finally it is calculated who has more stones, who is the winner of the first round of the game.
At the beginning of the second round of the game, each of them puts the winning stone into the small kiln in front of them, at this time, the losing party will have a kiln or more kilns that do not have enough five children, then you can borrow a son from the winning party and continue the game. It can be borrowed one to return one, or borrow one to repay two, and the two sides negotiate. If more than 5 are missing, you need to sell the small kiln of the empty one to the other party and get 5 stones. Selling the other party's small kiln, you can't throw your son into it. After many rounds, if one side's small kiln is sold, or if there is not enough stone left in one kiln, that is, less than five stones, it is lost, and the game is completely over.
Walking the kiln is a game that girls play every day in the summer, under the shade of the trees, the sound of cicadas, and the summer of childhood is happy and interesting.
In order to review the scene of the kiln when I was a child, I thought about it for half a day, and there were only peanut beans at home to replace the kiln, and it was not impossible to walk the kiln for myself. From the refrigerator freshness drawer, I took out the bag containing peanuts, selected 50 round and fat beans, and placed them on the study table according to five kilns, and I played two corners and began to walk the kiln with memory. As I walked, I remembered the tips of walking the kiln when I was a child: eat dry and cross dry, and there is no old class in the old land. What I don't understand even more is that when I was a child, why did I have such a great interest in walking in the kiln? The competitive psychology of children? Is it fun to win? Childhood was rudimentary, without any valuable toys, but still playing with friends.
Have you learned to walk the kiln? One day, meet your childhood friends and go again, relive the simple joy of childhood!
Swallow February 11, 2022
Author: Swallow, a little girl who is low to the dust.
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