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Ancient children, no toy rooms, playgrounds, cartoons, video games, interest classes... But their childhood was so happy because of the traditional Chinese games that accompanied them. Passing home, hide-and-seek, jumping rope... These traditional games of fun and education, Chinese babies play from ancient times to the 21st century, where does this invincible vitality come from?
Do it yourself a lot of fun
Compared with the fixed molding of modern toys, traditional toys need children to take materials from life, DIY and hands-on operation, with more space for exploration and creation, to put it bluntly, it is more fun.
Figure丨 Northern Song Dynasty Su Hanchen's "Autumn Court Baby Drama"
Look at the toy that the two brothers and sisters play with in the picture - jujube mill, you know what creativity is. The so-called jujube mill is to use three fresh dates, cut one jujube in half, expose the jujube core, and then use three bamboo sticks to stand on its feet. Then use a slender bamboo grate, one red date at each end, place it on the jujube core, find the balance point, gently flick, and watch the bamboo grate rotate up, which is quite a sense of achievement.
The other table was full of date grinding tools
Brain patch game
Puppets, called hanging silk puppets in the Song Dynasty. Although the viewing distance is too close, the suspension wires are worn, but the babies look at it, and there is only this little person who can soar through the clouds and drive the fog.
Figure丨 Southern Song Dynasty Li Artemisia "Skeleton Illusion"
The Hanging Silk Puppet Play of the Song Dynasty was very developed, and even the theme was beyond our imagination, and it was conceived that such a skeleton puppet show was conceived and screened for young children. Looking at the small skeleton's dense hanging wire of the joints of the whole body, I don't know if every detail can be moved? No wonder it frightens the mother, but attracts the baby to pounce. The Big Skull is the "magic realism" of the Song Dynasty painters.
Playing games, that is, house and puppet shows, children need to design their own characters, prepare props, and conceive plots, so that children can "open their minds" and stimulate their imagination.
Cultivate team spirit
Video games and urbanization make today's children more and more distant from nature. The traditional game is the living realization of the unity of heaven and man and the natural nature of the Tao. The big Buddha snowman that these children worked together to pile up may be better than that of adults.
Figure 丨Qing Jiao Bingzhen "Hundred Sons Reunion Album"
Figure 丨 Yuan Dynasty Anon.
And here is a small knight of The Yuan Dynasty Mongolia and his luxurious ride, the caged bird on the shoulder rack, perhaps his small booty - the northern nomads often use sheep riding as a training before riding a horse, bringing his friends to hunt some prey such as squirrel birds, which is the happy childhood of nomadic children.
Play is the nature of children, no matter what they play, in fact, they hope that children can have a happy childhood.
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