Kite is not the first toys, but for the military, and communications. The late Tang Dynasty, because some people to join in on the kite strings, Fengyi Chui, as the guzheng, as the issue of the voice, so there will be a "Kite" name. Kite is a skeleton of the Xizhu, affixed with brightly colored paper or silk, and paintings on the painting. To the Song Dynasty, kite-flying festival has become a favorite of our activities.
Xiangbao
In ancient times, whenever the Tuen Ng Festival, the family elders with cotton, silk and other materials Xiangbao, filled with the smell inside the medicine, children's wear in the front or linked to the bedside, can Chubing for good. Such as the Dragon Boat Festival has put the Xiang Bao Dai had thrown away, said that in addition to abandoning the disease. So you see others on the road throwing the Xiangbao, ah should not be seized.
Shadow play
Chinese shadow play is a folk art form. Gansu Province in northwest China's Gansu Shadowgraph mainly distributed in Pingliang, Qingyang county, more focused to the east of Shaanxi, Ningxia's triangle. Longdong shadow play around in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (14th century -19 century) has been very popular, Shadowgraph Junqiao generous shape, contour, summed up tall and straight; engraved Fine smooth. Longdong Shadowgraph production of selected young, the black color of leather, leather thickness of this moderate, quality and flexibility Kennedy, in Green transparent. Kraft Guagan Jing, dry-transparent to the net when you create. Yang Gao light in the first painting on leather, and then use various types of knives or cutting or carved. After using transparent water color rendering, color generally do not reconcile, there was pure brilliant, strong contrast. Carved cutting, coloring after "water" that is, Screed, this is one of the most critical is the most difficult hurdle. The water after drying, binding combination of power can be performed.
Kongzhu
Kongzhu known as "buffeting Ong," is a well-known folk toys. With two small bamboo sticks thread-tying, inside the wooden shaft jitter, high-speed rotation and Kongzhu sounds, as early as the late Ming, a Beijing Kongzhu has become a spring of toys, people in the street, the compound in the ring for Kongzhu buffeting, beautiful melodious Beep in Beijing, the city will break out.
Block linked with the tiger-lion
Linked to the tiger, the lion is the seat of civil used to evil spirits Strap, made with soil and pulp, black and white, two color, lines of a lot of changes, the strong contrast of colors. Some archaeologists believe that pegged the tiger from the show changes from the mask, was later linked to farmers in the door for New Qugui.
Mud Jiaojiao
Jiaojiao is a mud can be blowing the whistle, it colorful, painted with oil appearance, Youhei You-liang and good-looking, fit for children to play. Mud Jiaojiao there are many, such as: bird whistle, fish posts, posts such as pigs.
Huang Ping, Guizhou mud post
Tao ring for the ball
Tao ring for the original ball is an important instrument, but also the voice of the first toys. Pottery unearthed in the ring for the Ceramic balls are spherical, the middle is empty, with Billiard or sand inside, shaking when Huahuazuoxiang.
9 chain
Originated in ancient people, in the Qing Dynasty, women and children all like to play nine series. 9 chain by foreign human invention that is the most ingenious one of the toy, its mystery is the ingenious method of open and complex.
Bo Langgu
Bo Langgu it is a ancient musical instruments, and later lost the role of musicians, a children's toys. Bolang Gu is a snare drums, according to the * hinges on both sides of the ball drums audible. Bo Langgu various regions of different shapes, such as long Yaogu, Chen Shui-bian may also have the drums, drum stack of four, when Gaogaodidi voice, loud and beautiful.
Shanxi cloth toys
A Yaogu
Gyro
Bu Daoweng
Slingshot
Kaleidoscope
Winds were sugar
Small Jiwo (Beijing)
Hebei Metro mud rooster
Xuanmu dolls (Shandong Tancheng)
Hand carved gourds (Gansu Province)
White glaze pottery painted cats (Shanxi Yuncheng)
Shuidou (Jiangsu Wuxi)
One of civil toys: the toys-year-old season
1, where the civil-year-old toys
China is a traditional agricultural country, thousands of years, agriculture has always been a foundation for building the country, so Nongshi attaches great importance to the seasonal solar terms, which runs through people's lives, formed a relatively fixed-year-old season to folk. At the age of folk in various activities, toys少不了civil participation. Are in chronological order to:
Spring Festival: It is the most popular annual festival, various civil toys in nearly a month before the New Year began selling time. Spring Festival temple fair is the largest concentration of civil toys Hot land. Traditional temple fairs in Beijing, the common has nearly 100 kinds of traditional toys, such as windmills, lanterns, Kongzhu, gyroscope, cut wood toys, kites clay sculpture, paper flowers, educational toys, and so on.
February 2: Temple in Henan Province who will sell "Mud mud dog," all kinds of mud toys.
Li-chun: people to have spring chicken (mostly cloth and mud post), Chunniu (pinch mud toys).
Tomb Sweeping Festival: kite-flying. Hansik (used in a pre-clean, 2. Later, civil worship it with the Ching Ming grave-sweepers combined.): North Miansu a "cold-yan."
Tuen Ng Festival (May Chu Wu): various Xiangbao.
Tanabata: July 7, "Qi Qiao Festival", the Song Dynasty capital of selling, "a Moroccan-" mud toys.
July 15: North generally sent to the Yellow River Basin "of sheep" practices.
August 15: Mid-Autumn Festival, civil use of moon cakes-and skillfully-produced cakes and fruit snacks.
Beijing and Nanjing, a clay sculpture, "Tuer God" and "Rabbit King" and other toys.
October to the end: Start preparing Nianhuo, including toys.
Civil toys two: life rituals toys
Person's life, from birth to death, have experienced various stages of life rituals, even when people have not yet born when women started "begging of" activities. From birth to one month, age, to adults, love and marriage, birthday, funeral, toys arts are accompanied by a series of life rituals.
1, begging of activities: the hope that the women have children to local Niangniang, such as the Parthenon Temple burned incense and offerings, and buy back the heirs of the symbolic "Da Age" or "Mud mud dog," a kind of mud toys.
2, and have children and one month: This is the beginning of an important stage in life when a child is born, relatives and friends will bring gifts, grandmother and grandmother are busy, most of these gifts is the child's daily necessities and toys, such as child clothing, Children's shoes, cloth tiger, child pillow, and so on.
3, the age: This is the children growing up in an important moment, the Chinese people from the south to the north are "grasping Week" practices, let the children crawl around their arbitrary display of items, many of them children toys.
4, growth ceremony: children growing up process, What to do a lot of toys, or even tying home to the town of stone lions are the soul of a child's toy. Yang Shui, cloth dolls, cloth bag, took over, comic toys, pottery, etc.-are inseparable from the children's plaything. Some localities have children up to age 12, held a Dingli, to show their children have grown up.
5, marriage: newly-wed couples get married on that day will be the recipient in the large number of gifts, friends and relatives will be impatient with the kids sent items and toys, to express the couple "Early Takako" wishes. The fabrics and cloth monkey tiger is the most common; one pair of male and female cloth monkey is the role that marriages between men and women. Other Miansu (of flowers), and appointed the more decorative.
6, funeral: As early as in prehistoric times the original burial, have been used toys funerary customs. Later evolved into the funeral, people sent Miansu (North) and Zhizha, and this is "Hi mourning" House prepared things, Shanxi has still to Shouzhong of people placed in the coffin in the mud of paper produced by the "oldest Public and oldest mother, "the custom dolls. If a person is dead to death, his shadow play troupe will have to please their spirits.
7, the life of a child is to use the main period of toys, toys for children is produced, but from the hands of adult toys, also accompanied by adults and the elderly.
Civil toy three: the daily life Game toys
In people's daily lives, especially children's lives, toys everywhere. Game show is the role of toys and charisma in it. Prevalent throughout the sport as derived from the ancient Cuju - football, shuttlecock kicking, rope skipping, there are children playing with "the families" (a kind of imitation of adult production and labor of the game, from kids playing different roles) "Riding Zhuma" (bamboo pole for the horse, riding in the pediatric Kuaxia games, saying "Qingmeizhuma" that described the friendship Liangxiaowucai), "Qi Qiao's Day" (annual Tanabata is the traditional "daughter of" little girl to Baidoa, And listen to adults on "Cowboy Zhinv" the story, begging for their own, like the same Shouqiao Zhinv), "Diushou Juan," playing "Gala Ha" ( "sheep Shui" - sheep bone joints), "Tiaopi Jin", "fight Tangram "," playing war "(the little boy fighting to imitate the collective game, small game such weapons is the main props), jumping lattice (also called Tiaofang Zi), swinging toys, etc. are used in civil occasions.
Day-to-day life is also the home furnishings of the toys, people bought from the temple on display all kinds of toys at home - clay sculpture and ceramic statues, Tai Age, to bolt the dolls have been beautifully enshrined in the place. Tiezhe pictures wall "promotion plans," old people are still Wanzhe the ancient "Water Margin leaves Opera" (Water Margin figures for decorative motifs card game) and comic toys, all this is like a slow life of pastoral Pastoral .