Jinan Old toys: Nostalgic old objects, play new tricks

The current Quancheng Jinan has ushered in a new period of historical opportunities. Taking the opportunity of "improving the soft power of the city and creating a model of civilization", Jinan is comprehensively promoting the construction of the "Top Ten Citys" and strive to create a "national civilization model city". Ai Jinan client opens the "Painting Theory City City" column, and uses a series of hand -drawn forms to depict the butterfly changes in Jinan in Quancheng, witness the temperament strength of a civilized city, and draw a happy picture of the new development of the city.

Monkey, gourd car, monkey climbing rod, bamboo dragon, old -fashioned wave drum ... old Jinan people must still remember these old toys.

Different from the current toys, the old toys use the wood and mortises and mortgings, which is full of nostalgia. Liu Linlin, a non -genetic inheritor in Jinan, said that these native Jinan old toys can be traced back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. It has been inherited for hundreds of years, and it has been widely circulated. In Shandong, there are similar toys in Hebei and Anhui area. Essence

The biggest feature of traditional old toys is that it is convenient for materials and simple production, which contains the clever ideas of the ancestors. Most of the old toys are taken on the spot, using logs or original bamboo, tenon -and -mortise structure stitching assembly, and using simple mechanical principles. For example, the monkey is used to use a leveraged principle, two lines, pinch it with your hands, generate a twist, and let this monkey turn around. This is also the wisdom of the ancient working people.

To make a gourd car, first use glue to fix the two wooden boards on the small bamboo pole, and then fix a bead on the top of the bamboo pole on the side of the wooden board to prevent the wooden board from falling off. One end passes through the small holes on the side of the gourd through the bottom of the gourd, and then pits the rope through the small hole on the bamboo pole. Finally, pull the gourd to the lower end of the wooden board, pinch the gourd and pull the color rope. The car is ready.

With the development of the times, the old toys in Jinan have gradually been replaced by modern toys and electronic products, but they still carry the childhood memories of a generation. With the inheritance and development of non -heritage culture, old toys have also played new tricks. According to the preferences and needs of modern young people, a series of cultural and creative toys have been developed and created, so that old toys that originally faded out of the public's horizon showed new vitality Essence

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