Come to my son's house for a stay. Due to the epidemic, the little grandson who is in kindergarten is also trapped at home, and I will play with him when there is nothing to do.
Once, watching him rummage through the Cartoon on TV again, I coaxed him to play hide-and-seek in order to make him play less video games. His attention was slowly drawn to the game. He likes to hide, let me find. Each time he told me to stand in front of the window, and I wasn't allowed to turn around, and then he began to creep around to find a hiding place. He curled up in the cupboard for a while, hid behind the couch for a while, hid in the bathroom for a while, and burrowed into the quilt for a while. There are so many places in the house, where else can I hide? Each time I deliberately pretended not to find it, tapping east and west with a broomstick, muttering anxiously in my mouth: "Where can I hide?" "You're talking to yourself so repeatedly that you promise that it won't be long before he can't stop laughing. By the time you pretend to be surprised to find him, he's overjoyed and smiling back and forth. With only this simple hiding point, he played tirelessly, and when it was time to eat, he was still immersed in the game. He was arranged to sit on a dining chair, and in the blink of an eye, he did not know where to hide.
It reminds me of my childhood playing with my buddies.
After three years of natural disasters, we who have just been able to fill our stomachs with melons have begun to "rejoice". Every day after dinner, without having to be called, a group of friends would gather themselves in the open space in front of my house, sometimes five or six, sometimes ten or eight, five or seven, ten or eight. There are many tricks to play, such as "Picking Soldiers Across the Boundary", "Touching the Blind", "Crossing the City Gate", "Carrying Crutches", "Cutting Old Tiles", "Hitting Wax Pieces" and so on. What to play is generally decided by the two-year-old child Wang. Hide-and-seek is one of the games we play a lot. At that time, the game of "hide-and-seek", we all called playing "Hide and Seek (Third Sound) Meng". The personnel are divided into two parts, one group hides, and one group finds. Everyone is willing to hide or not, generally through the hammer and cut the bag to decide the collector and find a home, and then take turns to sit in the house.
At that time, the scope of the collection was very large, and the grass stacks, pot houses, hutongs, pig pens, straw bushes, potato cellars, and even the cattle houses, car houses, and hay sheds of the production team were all our hiding places. Everyone is very trustworthy, looking for a home will turn their backs on the collector, stand in one place and never peek, let the collector scatter. Otherwise, if anyone peeks and is known, he will be said to be a "lai cat", and no one will play with him next time. When there was no movement, I began to look for it, and I had to shout: "Start looking for it!" ”
People who are hiding want to hide as much as possible. Whoever hides in the haystack must pull the grass to cover himself; if he hides in an empty jar in his yard, he must also put the lid of the jar on his own; if he hides in the straw, he must pull another bundle of straw to plug the opening of the hole... I think that this game should have retained the long-term risk-off gene of human beings. Since the history of mankind, when people encounter attacks and injuries from wild beasts, bandits, and wars, they will be like "hide and seek", and their ideas will be hidden and hidden to maximize their protection. When we played this game when we were kids, we had this mentality. When a child is pulled out of the grass nest with grass clippings, he usually does not laugh with excitement like my little grandson, he will feel defeated, a gray look.
If some children hide very hidden and difficult to find, if they can't find it for a long time, everyone has an agreement: looking for a home can shout: "Twitter!" "Collectors must learn chickens, cats, dogs, or other animals, bark softly, and when they find a house, they will follow the barking to find the past." The scope is narrowed down, and it is much easier to find.
I remember that there was a nickname called "Five Bald", and he often played with us, and I called him "Uncle Five Bald". He is the oldest of us, with many bad ideas, and we often fall for him. Adults often call him "Little Seven Monkeys of Zhou". One night, when he was a collector, a few of us searched together for a long time and didn't find it. We called him "Twitter!" ", and he is not crooked. Everyone has been finding the moon star rare, it is estimated that it is almost midnight. The families shouted over and over again: "Little Two! "Little Four!" "New River!" "Steel column!" "I want to get beaten!" Don't hurry up and go home to sleep! ”。 Later, a few adults came looking for it. We reported to the adults, "The five bald men can't be found!" "My third sister-in-law behind the house was also anxious after hearing this, and found his house in a hurry, smashed the courtyard door, and told his family that the five bald men could not be found. My grandmother said, "He went home a long time ago, and now he's going to bed early!" ”
Another time, I almost had a big accident. It was a big winter, and we were playing "Hidden Cat Meng" in the yard where the production team was feeding the cattle. That time the "partial column" brother hid on the big horse stack. The big horse stack is a wheatgrass stack used by production teams to feed their livestock. The average large horse stack is three or four meters high, three or four meters wide, and about three houses long. Usually, the stack will be edged by a steel-toothed wooden rake on the ground (bà) for the keeper to step on the rake when the ladder climbs to the top of the stack to cut grass. At that time, one end of the large horse stack had been cut off in half height, forming two platforms, one high and one low. The "partial pillar" brother saw that the top of the stack was a good hiding point, and at that time he climbed up the big horse stack with his rake teeth and hid it lying flat on the top of the stack. On a dark day, we searched for a long time without finding it, so let "twitter", he also ignored. It was late at night, and I don't know who had an idea, so we shouted in unison: "The old flat mouth is coming!" "Old Flat Mouth" is a breeder, and in my case he belongs to his grandfather's generation. Because the jaw is wide, the mouth is large, and the two sides of the mouth are covered with beards, the beard is usually trimmed to expose only a flat slit of the large mouth, and people give the nickname "old flat mouth". He didn't like the children to mess around in the cow house, because of the long generations, often "grandma this" and "grandma that" scolding, we are all afraid of him. When the partial pillar brother heard "The old flat mouth is coming!" The shouting of the frightened bone climbed up and jumped to the next floor. I wanted to jump to the ground by jumping twice. Who knew that due to impatience, too much force, directly from the top of the three or four-meter-high stack to the ground, lying on the ground and humming. Everyone was frightened, or stood or squatted around him and had no idea. It took about a bag of cigarettes to slowly return to normal. It turned out that he was lying on top of the stack and asleep, and everyone shouted in unison, "The old flat mouth is coming!" He was awakened, and then he jumped down in panic. Fortunately, it is a big winter, wearing a cotton jacket and cotton pants thick hat, otherwise it must be broken.
Sixty years have passed in the blink of an eye. The way children behave in life from their grandparents has become very different. Most of the wild games that our ancestors used to play have been replaced by video games that are difficult for their grandchildren to give up. The unreal cosmic celestial body violent duel game, is it happy or worried for children? Is it a blessing or a curse? That's the perception of adults. I believe that with the progress of human society, social consensus will always be found and gradually corrected to seek advantages and avoid harms like "hide-and-seek". But in any case, do not let children indulge in the illusory world, should encourage children to go into nature, or labor, or sports, or games, believe that the mystery of nature is always greater than the elaborate design of those gamers. In this way, the young mind can perceive the real world and the true love of the world.