It is believed that women after 80, in that era can also find their own simple pleasure, have played these classic childhood games: for example, jumping squares, catching stones, jumping ribbons, shuttlecock, throwing handkerchiefs, eagles catching chickens, jumping rope and so on.
1, jumping square
Relative to the material scarcity of the era, this is the most suitable for rural children to play, but also the most popular games for girls, do not need any money, as long as the teacher after the chalk and a thin stone or rubble can play, and then lift one foot, one foot kick stone or rubble, and the process of stone or rubble can not be pressed to the square line or beyond the square range, and finally see who presses the The last to see who according to the rules first to reach the top of the square, who will win.
2, catching stones
This is a small child in the countryside, but also a cheaper game than the suburbs, it is suitable for any one of the soil on the lawn (cement ground catching stones will rub broken fingers), as long as it does not rain, there is no mud on the ground can be to the ground or crouch or sit, you can play the game. General 7 stones, (to meet a hand can hold), pick the stone is generally about the same size, more smooth, will not hurt the hand.
When playing on the ground, small stones scattered on the ground, pick up a stone grabbed in the hand, the hand of this small stone, thrown into the air, the hand that throws, immediately to the ground to grab another stone, generally easy after difficult, according to the total number of stones to choose from, grab a, two, three, four. After catching the one on the ground, you have to catch the one falling from the air immediately, if you can't catch it, you lose, and when you catch a combination of stones, you can't touch the other stones, if you do, you lose. This is relatively easy, there is also the back of the hand instead of the hand bumps stones scattered, but the catching method is also the same. Rural areas are dirt ping, catch stone game is played more cheerfully.
3, jumping ribbons
This is also popular with the girls a game, but need ribbons. Rich girls can buy new, that is of course the envy of the girls, but no money can also be broken at home in the old leather straps in the clothes and pants removed and connected to a number of knots of leather straps. Jumping rubber band is in the two feet alternately running and jumping to complete a variety of actions in the whole body movement, it is mainly jumping, interspersed with points, hooks, picking, cross, touch, pressure, tripping, churning, around, disk, step, pull out, top, and so on more than a dozen kinds of basic movements, but also a combination of other patterns. Jumping ribbons have single jump, collective jump two kinds. When the movement, two people at both ends of the foot taut leather straps, and sometimes can also be set on the feet of the leather straps in the chair, move away from the appropriate distance, the participants can jump back and forth on the leather straps. Favorite song is: "Malan blossom one eleven, one five six, one five seven, one eight one nine twenty-one, two five six, two five seven, two eight two nine thirty-one ......" accompanied by the song, rhythmically jumping out of a variety of patterns. I didn't realize that, to this day, this song is still fresh in my mind.
4. Shuttlecock
At that time, the shuttlecock we played was not as professional as now, and it was all homemade. The base of the shuttlecock was made of copper, and the outside was wrapped and sewn with several layers of cloth. Then, pick up the rooster's wings on the largest feather tube made into a tube, one end of the cut, sewn on the cloth. The other end is inserted with beautiful feathers from the tail of a beautiful rooster, in a variety of colors, with soft feathers neatly arranged and curved into a willow shape, which is very beautiful. Another shuttlecock practice is not with feathers, but with snakeskin bags or glass wire, cut them into long neat strips, and then stuffed into the hole in the base of the coin, and then burned with fire, wait for them to melt, and then pressed on the floor, into a flattened hard, will not fall off on the finished, silk tangled shuttlecock is complete. Before and after a foot standing on the floor, a foot constantly running shuttlecock, so that it keeps not falling, so always count the number of success is good!
5, throw the handkerchief:
This game is very simple, the props are just a handkerchief, but it can make a dozen or twenty people involved. We squatted, formed a circle, singing "throw handkerchief": "Throw, throw, throw handkerchief, gently placed behind the children, we do not tell him, quickly quickly catch him ......" One person holding the handkerchief outside the circle to walk, in the people do not pay attention to put the handkerchief while the people to the behind the other person, while the others must not make a sound. Behind the handkerchiefs of the people, must be in the handkerchiefs of the people walked through a circle before the discovery and catch up with the handkerchiefs of the people, or lose, and then take on the role of handkerchiefs of the task or performance programs, singing, dancing, telling jokes, etc. can be.
6, the eagle catches chickens:
A person playing the eagle, another person when the front line soldier playing hen (usually a big head), two hands open, protecting the back of the column of chickens, chickens a next to a tightly grasping the former clothes or the back of the waist, in order to block the eagle's "swoop" and "capture". "Catch", we follow the leader of the row behind the emergency shelter, because only the leader of the row in the front, the situation is clearer. As long as the eagle catches anyone in the back, he wins.
7, jump rope
This game only needs a two-finger thick rope can be, anytime, anywhere you can play, a person can be a single jump, two people can play, three people play better, boys can play, girls can play, boys and girls can play together. When playing, just don't trip your feet on the rope.
When it comes to the game of jumping rope, I am most impressed. Eight years old or so of a summer evening, the moon was very full, our children of the same age to do their homework, after dinner, have to our village of the large playground collection to play, this playground is the villagers gathered to chat place, after dinner the villagers will go to that chat, is the so-called now everyone jump square dance place. On that day, eight or nine of us kids divided up the work to organize a rope skipping competition. We started by rubbing the rope, sending some people to their homes to get straw, we planted rice there, so there is no shortage of straw. Then some people began to rub the rope, the left hand and right hand with the right hand, rolled the rope between the legs, that day rolled a five or six meters long rope; Finally, some people to discuss the grouping of matters, nine people divided into three groups, and then divided into a single jump, double jump, triple jump, and finally to see which team jumped the number of more for the winners. That night we all played especially happy, and finally played a mixed jump, the adults also have to participate in it, that playground laughter is still echoing in my ears, can never forget.
When I was a kid, we went to catch bees in the spring, because many of the houses built in the past are made of yellow clay, there will be a small hole in the wall, in the spring when the rapeseed flowers bloom, the bees hid inside the hole in the wall, and then we took a branch to poke, the bees were harassed to run towards the direction of the hole, and then fell out of the net, to see them in the bottle flying desperately, flying can not fly out of the feeling is very happy, feel like they are the king of the world. I was so happy, I felt like I was the king, and I overcame it; when I was a child, we went to the pond to catch fireflies at night in summer, and we put them all into bottles, and they sparkled; when I was a child, we went to the fields in the mountains in the fall to graze cattle, and then we roasted the groundnuts, roasted the beans, and the smell, it has never been dispersed from our side for the rest of our lives; when I was a child, in the cold winters, we took our own local dogs and went to the snow-covered mountains to catch wild rabbits. In the past, the climate was not so warm, and it often snowed heavily and thickly in the winter, so I often saw the ice hanging under the eaves of the house and ate it, like eating popsicles, which was very refreshing. All of these, decades past, but also vividly remembered.
Now the children, away from these games more and more far away, simply can not experience, but also can not replicate the childhood fun of our era. Nowadays, they are accompanied by TVs and computers all day long, and their lives have changed qualitatively compared to ours, but the joy is getting farther and farther away from them, and all kinds of tuition classes make them have no time to experience the right of enjoying the fun of childhood that they should have at this age.
Thanks to that era, let us have the most simple fun, let our childhood colorful, let us still long for that unforgettable childhood!