Childhood games – playing with apricot kernels

Childhood games – playing with apricot kernels

I was born in 1952, belong to the Great Dragon, and I am seventy years old this year.

As a kid, my friends and I played with apricot kernels.

There are two ways to play the apricot core, one is to fall, and the other is to play (tan).

The apricot kernel can be played by two people or several people together.

Drop the apricot kernel.

In addition to having an apricot core, you also need a brick, preferably a brick that is not very smooth.

When playing, the apricot cores come out first. The person who plays, turns his back, takes out the apricot core and counts, counts the number that he intends to make, and holds it tightly with his right hand, so that no one else can see it. When everyone is ready, the players turn around at the same time and let go of their palms together, more than the apricot cores of whoever compares them. After that, the person who comes out the most is the first to play, and so on.

play. The person who gets out the most plays first. Only to see that he put everyone's apricot cores together, all of them on the bricks, and the second most people put the apricot cores back together, put them in the middle of the bricks, and piled them up. Then, the player approaches the brick, stands up straight, bows his head, and uses the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of his right hand to pinch a relatively large apricot kernel (also called the head core), lift it under the eye, squint, aim at the amygdala pile on the brick, let go, and the head core will smash straight into the amygdala pile on the brick. If the fallen nucleus smashes the apricot cores on the bricks, the apricot cores belong to the people who play. The person playing can continue to fall. If the head core falls down and does not drop the apricot core, or if the head core falls on the brick and does not fall under the brick, the person playing will step down. The people in the line below continue to play. And so on, until the apricot cores on the bricks are all destroyed.

At that time, the head core fell on the brick, which was a very painful thing. The person playing below, if you drop your head core, that head core will belong to someone else. In this case, you can discuss with him and take five small apricot cores to get him back to your head core. Under normal circumstances, others will agree to change to you, and only a few people who are sandwiched will not change.

Bomb the apricot kernel.

The amygdala is also the first out of the apricot kernel, and the rules are the same as the fall of the apricot kernel.

The person who gets out the most plays first.

When playing, the person crouches and grabs all the apricot cores with his right hand, or holds all the apricot cores with both hands, and then sprinkles them on the ground.

After the apricot core is sprinkled on the ground, the player carefully looks at the apricot core on the ground, finds two that are closer, takes the index finger of the right hand to draw a line between the two apricot cores, and then rings the thumb and index finger of the right hand, the index finger is close to an apricot core, squints the eyes, takes a aim, aims, and uses the right index finger to bounce the amygdala in front of the other apricot core. When playing, the strength should be well controlled, and the strength should not be too large, nor too small. If it hits, the apricot core belongs to the person who plays it, and you can continue to play below. If there is no bullet, or when the apricot core is played, two apricot cores are played, and the person who plays it is stepped down, and then, the remaining apricot core is handed over to the person below to play.

At that time, the apricot cores we played with were all packed in a cloth bag, and when we went out to play, we carried the cloth bag in our hands and looked for people to play with everywhere.

At that time, the apricot kernels we played did not need to spend money, they were all picked up by ourselves, unlike today's children, who spent money to buy everything they played.

Today's children no longer play with the apricot core, and the game of playing the apricot core has become a story.