Mr. Lu Xun wrote in the article "Kite": "Play is a legitimate behavior of children, and toys are children's angels. "Children love games, they love toys, they grow up in games, they develop their minds when they play with toys. Thus, where there is a market, there is invention and production. Toys have undergone a lot of evolution and become what industrial mass production looks like today. When some people see children's toys, they don't know the name of the toy or how to play with it. So, is toy evolution really good?
not necessarily. It is said that toys, like games, have developed with the development of various ethnic cultures and have been passed down from primitive societies to the present, as Mr. Chen Shouxiang of the Central Academy of Fine Arts pointed out: "Toys are the most prominent, unified and stable category of national cultural creations. "Children's growth is inseparable from toys, and the production of toys has always accompanied the growth of children. Today, many relatively wealthy parents just care about spending money to buy toys for their children, but they can't help but blindly follow the trend, sometimes in order to "reward achievements" and "develop intelligence", but few people really understand the intrinsic meaning of toys, and toy manufacturers also lack of creative-oriented enterprises, even if some economic benefits are good, it is often just an export need or simply a processing contract, no creativity.
There is a sentence in the Concise Encyclopedia Britannica that "the pressure of industrialization has led to the rapid disappearance of many national traditional toys." "In particular, the invasion of foreign culture has left traditional toy manufacturers facing bankruptcy. A typical example is that foreign toys quickly occupied the domestic market, dolls replaced tumblers, Transformers replaced nine rings, imitation guns replaced slingshots, and electric toy cars replaced gyros and glass balls, which seemed to verify the success of a toy revolution and the success of foreign cultural invasions. It is no wonder that Chen Shouxiang lamented that "the destruction of national culture is one of the most serious pollution in the world today." Under this influence, toys have been favored as a mercenary commodity. The idea that children can be acquired by feeling novelty alone is actually losing human children. The substitution of modern toys for national traditional toys, the substitution of indifferent materials, mechanical production and functional movement for affinity materials, elaborate production and naïve participation is one of the crises facing mankind. It is very worrying that adults are mad to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to collect famous paintings and various treasures created by human beings, while children are crazy to spend adults' money to obtain such cold and monotonous goods! ”
The more complete the function of the toy, the less it can stimulate the child's ability to explore, but will solidify some of the child's inherent exploration ability in the toy, so that they can "sit back and enjoy it". That is to say, in the toy manufacturing industry, it is not that the more creative and the more sophisticated the production, the more valuable it is, and the poor toy environment sometimes stimulates people's creativity. The tumbler's play allows children to get a sense of distance to grasp objects, nine consecutive rings allow them to get an increase in intelligence, slingshot allows them to gain balance ability, and gyroscopes allow them to get the effect of fitness, but also effectively grasp the direction, get the positioning of the sense of direction, and the various ways of playing with the glass ball make them happy. On the contrary, foreign toys are large and versatile, thinking too much for children, collecting all the functions that children need into the toy, not stimulating children's ability to explore, just letting them play, plus sound and light effects can sell for a large price, but they lose simplicity and innocence, and also lose exploratory play.
There are also many other national toys, such as "Mr. Egghead", "Green Toy Soldier", "Shepherd Girl", "Puzzle Plate" in "Toy Story", etc. are more traditional toys, but now they have long been replaced by intelligent toys. Giving children traditional or even rudimentary toys is not to limit their freedom to develop, nor is it deliberately to save money, but to stimulate their inner creativity.
A toy is a mirror that reflects the child's heart. As deep psychology says, others are mirrors of yourself, and how you treat others is equivalent to how you treat yourself. People can't fully know others, they can only know some aspects of others, and even these aspects are not very real, there is a possibility of artificial construction, and there are also elements of people's self-righteousness. Most of the time, people's understanding of others is a reflection of their own hearts, not necessarily the real situation of others. The mother feels that she is cold, she thinks that the child is cold, the husband is also cold, in fact, it may be that she has a fever herself, or she herself feels cold, and her son and husband do not feel cold, but have become a reflection of the woman's heart. Children treat pets the same way, they are hungry to give pets to eat, they are cold to add clothes to pets, in fact, pets are not necessarily hungry, not necessarily cold, but become a reflection of the child's heart. Children treat toys the same, will be a certain subjective care of toys, the process of playing with toys is the process of mental maturity, of course, you can continue to explore the various ways to play toys. Toys are simple is better, you can let children easily go beyond the toy play, create some of their own play, such as the play of glass balls, etc., if the toy function is complete, to provide children with a variety of functions they can think of, then, it is not the child playing with toys, but the toys playing with children. Just like online games, people are playing games at the beginning, and after indulging in them, they become game players.
We should be wary of the evolution of toys, the more functional toys, the more modern toys should be careful, so as not to indulge in children, by the toys toys. A typical case is playing with mobile phones, it is difficult to say that children are playing mobile phones, it should be mobile phones playing children are almost ...