Disappearing childhood game: the best rule enlightenment before entering the adult world

A few months ago, I went to Icheon. The younger brother of the brothers took him to see his movie "Love in the 1980s", the main location of the old-fashioned old town of the ancient mountains. An old street there still retains a relatively complete historical style. The slings on the back of the street have grinded the stone road of the patina, the stone steps with the chisel marks, the porch of the stone pillars, the cloth head, and the bamboo back. The lacquered wooden barber chair has faded... It seems that for decades, the modern style of the mountains has swept through the modern winds. Walking leisurely, I suddenly saw a scene of a worldly separation, and a few five or six-year-old children were "hiding cats!" A "caught" child squinted at the pole on the side of the road, shouting one, two, three... a few "hidden" children immediately fled and fled to a place. The "grabbing" child shouted the prescribed number and immediately rushed into a room to search for arrest according to his judgment. A kind of long-lost kindness came to my heart. Just in the camera, I grabbed a few photos and wanted to take it home to think about my childhood more than half a century ago. Not far away, several children quietly sat on the stone steps of the road and played a building block.

Jump rubber band

For decades, the cities I live in have never seen such outdoor children's games, and I can't hear the excitement of shouting or more real debate in the game. There are a lot of children in the community. When they saw them, they were not dragged to the kindergarten by the elders in the morning, but they were picked up from those places in the evening. I have never seen the figures they played, nor have they heard their happy voices. The entire community is quiet like a nursing home.

In the 1950s and 1960s, children did not have a lot of homework. Most of them could be done at school or after school. After school or dinner, the children’s fairy time began. Anxious children, throwing chopsticks to invite people, and then go to other families, some parents are more strict, a group of children will sing outside the gate or behind the window: "So and so, come out to play! Mo Playing the skin cold at home." Playing the skin cold is the Wuhan dialect, that is, playing the pendulum, also called malaria, this disease is afraid of cold, and it will be wrapped in the quilt all day long. How can the called child withstand such seduce? The stalking and tempering of the shackles and even rushing to help with some housework, finally, in a burst of screaming, the child rushed out, everyone rushed away and began to agree on a good game.

When our family moved to the Xinhua Village, it was the age of the baby boomers after the April 9th ​​that reached the age of 789 dead dogs. Every household has three or two such half-children. There are ten or twenty buildings in a building, and there are more than ten buildings. How big is the battle? There are a wide variety of games, competitive, sports, confrontation, gambling, screaming, boy playing, girls playing, big kids playing, kids playing, grouping, single training, Instruments, freehand, Sven, rough, wits and worries... I remember a dozen years ago, in a middle-aged forum, I talked about the topic of childhood games, and the response was extremely enthusiastic. I have been fascinated by the various games I played in the past. What surprised me is that China has been in China for thousands of years. There are no modern means of communication, and there are thousands of miles in the mountains. Many games are similar. Some games are said to have hundreds of games. The history of the millennium can be seen from the name: "The officers and men catch the robbers", "shengtang", "judging the lawsuit", "pull the saw" and "lift the sedan chair"... Some games are slang or gang cuts, we together Summarized a little, there are nearly a hundred kinds, here are some examples:

The most common ones are: peekaboo, snowball fight, rubberized paper guerrilla warfare, play house, pull fishing nets, officers and soldiers catch robbers, jump eight gates (one person from squat to complete erect, another person skips from his head Similar to the track and field events, jumping goats, tug-of-war, kicking scorpions, skipping ropes, hopscotch, jumping rubber bands, spinning tops , rolling hoops, squeezed oil tanks (also called squeezed oil slag, a row of people standing on the wall, squeezing from the middle to the middle, Exiled by the crowd, winter can be warm), playing sandbags (playing like softball), riding bamboo horses, riding horses and horses fighting (one person standing as a horse head and front body, one person grabs the former shoulders with both hands, slumps and licks ass as a horse One person rides on horseback and another "man horse" fights and fights, first falls off the horse and loses), cockfighting (one leg is standing alone, holding another leg, hitting each other, falling or landing on both legs), looking for friends , throwing a hand towel, playing marbles, shooting triangles, throwing darts, "playing a scorpion" (not using kicks, but playing with a table tennis bat or a book. After squatting down the front body, you can make many moves, each action There is a weird name - so far

The girls play much more with the tumbling rope, the catcher (old-fashioned mahjong tiles, sandbags, the common sheep bones in the north), picking popsicle sticks, playing yellow beans... These games have competitive colors and can flex the fingers. Sex.

There are some games that are handy, such as paper planes, bamboo rafts, kites , water guns , sleds, slingshots, gunpowder guns or rubber guns. The better your toys are, the better your chances of winning. Big.

Hoops

Many games do not require equipment. Need equipment, are also very ordinary materials or cheap household items, a thin line or a thick rope, a piece of bamboo, a few cigarette cases, used textbooks, wire or wooden sticks, a chicken feather A small piece of soap and a small bottle of water... a little extravagant like a kite, you need to buy a light and strong lint paper and a long line of shoes, the girl's rubber band is a heavyweight item, you need to accumulate a lot of rubber bands or Rubber products, a little bit together. So a girl with a rubber band often has a lot of fans around her.

There are also many random games that are played due to the seasons, weather and environmental conditions. After the heavy rain, the roadside is stained with water. There are children who have gone back and folded the small paper boats to drift, snowing, looking for bamboo upstairs and downstairs. Piece, nailed to a wooden bench, made a temporary sled, wind up, cut the paper into hollow strips, sticking them together into an elliptical circle, galloping like a tank in the wind, wetting the mud in the yard Made into various utensils, animals, firearms or ships, the bricks were transported on the construction site, and it became a good material for everyone to "continue the inverted row" (the bricks were erected at an appropriate distance, and the first piece was pushed down. The rest will fall down. Later, I know that foreign countries call Domiru dominoes.... For children, there is almost no game, a wall, a tree, a stair railing, you can have fun. Even eating sugar cane can turn into a wonderful game of gambling and gambling: three or five children each have the same money, three or two points, buy a cane, hammer scissors cloth, decide the order, the knife holder Put the sugar cane upright, press the top of the knife against the top, then quickly flip the blade, and the sugar cane does not fall down. From the top to the bottom, the long cane skin is cut off. The section belongs to you, immediately, the second Continue until the cane is finished. If the skin does not break or squats in the middle, it will not count. The master sometimes has a knife from the beginning to the end, others have not yet started, that sugar cane is his.

None of these games are taught by adults. The children came from all sides, and each person brought their own gameplay. When the rules were said, everyone agreed and they started. It has always been a mystery to learn from each other.

As said above, the game is a rule, this is the rules of the child's society. Once a child enters a game, he has to abide by it, can't mess around, and can't be willful. Otherwise, you will be kicked out by this "society". This society only rules and does not recognize people. Our dormitory belongs to the district committee, but it seems to have any occupations. There are south cadres, re-transfer soldiers, bank staff, doctors, accountants, teachers, overseas Chinese, postmen, police, factory directors, market sales staff, and even There is a mother and child, the child is bigger than us, and the widowed mother is selling popsicles. Some families are wealthy, some are very tight, some have good grades, some are not very good... But in the game, all of the above does not work, just look at your skills and character. Especially for that kind of collective game, you have to have a spirit of cooperation, but also have skills, otherwise you will not want you on either side. Therefore, before entering the adult world, children have learned to follow the rules in their childhood society, learn to get along with others, learn to control themselves, and learn the psychological and physical pains caused by failure and failure. I think that many children have experienced the initial blows in their lives in the game. They all have the pain of not eating for the night. Of course, they bring more happiness and novelty to them, as well as childhood loyalty and friendship.

The game called "Shengtang", which was mentioned earlier, was played by four children. Draw a line on the ground, erect a brick in the place of five or six meters offline, the first one to knock down the brick with tiles or stones is the emperor, the second is the translation, the third is the thug, the last one becomes Prisoner. The emperor made an action, the translator said, sire. The beater pressed the prisoner to the ground. The emperor made another action. The translator said that he had to shave his nose. Three times, the thugs went up to torture. The emperor could also impose a "heavy" command. He often sent the prisoner to tears. The strong child would say that he would wipe the nose of the old man. It is. At this time, your father is either the mayor or the principal.

There are also children who can't stand the game. But when he returns home, there will be another pain to torture him, and that is loneliness. In general, he will come back soon. Sometimes, there will be good for him, and he will be brought into the group once again after he has said the situation.

It can be said that the game has always accompanied us into the youth of youth, and gradually bid farewell to us.

The game is the most authentic life of childhood. A childhood without a game, like a wilderness without a flower.

As I wrote in the previous article "Famine in the City (Continued)", even in the years when I couldn't eat enough, this childhood flower was tenaciously open.

I don't know when, the fascinating childhood game disappeared silently. Later, don't say game partners, even brothers and sisters are gone. Every child, besides preschool, interest class, quality class, cram school, in addition to piano, violin, electronic organ, various colors of brushes, various electronic games electronic toys designed by adults, and no days and nights after enrollment. Classwork and homework, those generations and generations have passed through thousands of years of childhood games, have long since disappeared from their lives, it seems that there is no possibility of returning.

What kind of people will grow up in a lonely, pet, and oppressive child?