Recently, I have been bumpy on the road of remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet. I am tired but excited at the same time. Time has passed away and my memory has been seriously lost, so I have left some regrets. For example, I was deeply involved in the writing process of "Irreplaceable Taste, Different Foods from Hometown". I racked my brains to exhaust everything and felt that I was at the end of my rope, as if I had already written to the extreme. But as soon as I finished writing the article, I suddenly discovered that in dimly lit places, delicious food abounded, and pretty and cold-looking people stared with their heads raised and eyes wide open. Now I am writing to talk about the unique handmade toys of that time and month. Countless expectant eyes flashed across my heart uneasily, pleading not to forget this or abandon that. In desperation, I put the writing down for a few days before writing about the handmade toys of that year and that month. Toys are listed one by one.

To make a "cocoon", wooden "cocoon", the wood is sharpened at both ends. It is mostly made of fine and durable locust trees. It is chopped and struck with a wooden board. Those with superb skills usually use a wooden stick to knock it. Lunyuan twisted her waist and swung her hips to strike out. When she heard the "crash" of broken glass, she dispersed in a crowd. The streets were deserted immediately, and the other playmates who were implicated also fled elsewhere to avoid suspicion.

Sandbags have three sides, four sides are the most common, and there are also five sides. Although this is common for girls, we also occasionally play it. Two people throw it against each other. Several people stand in the middle to avoid the sandbags or catch them. Whoever is hit will be replaced and do the hard work of throwing sandbags until one person is hit.

The slingshot is made of an iron handle or a natural tree branch, which is peeled and modified. The leather is usually cut into two sections from a bicycle inner tube. The best is a medical hose, and a rectangular piece of leather is used as a housing for the projectile. place. This is a must-have weapon for skinny children. The ones that suffer are the chickens, ducks and shiny glass next door. Of course, the main target is the sparrows standing on the branches of the trees.

For arrows, there is a hole in the middle of the string reel, which just accommodates the arrow body of the sorghum pole. The power device is a variety of extremely elastic leathers tied to the waist of the string reel. The arrows are made of iron wire, with one end sharpened. When an arrow is shot, it will definitely hit the target. The arrow has no wings at the tail, so the range is not far, but the damage cannot be underestimated. A childhood friend was almost injured. Fortunately, it was winter. Wearing a leather hat, the arrow was inserted blankly between the brow and the thick edge of the hat. Fortunately, the exposed arrow tip only pierced the skin and shed a few drops of bright red blood.

Picking up "Pangu" and "Pangu" are intentionally picking up natural stones of the same size, and there are also a pair of carefully polished stones, ranging from 5 to 10, and some are even larger. There are dozens or even hundreds of stones in a pile. The bags are packed with three or five friends, who take turns to pick them up. They are not allowed to touch other stones.

"Kicking Officials" involves arranging stones of different sizes to form human eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and eyebrows, and then throwing stones at them. If they are knocked down, they win. The winner can involve the loser's ears and nose in making nonsense. After a while, it is endless fun to repeat it again.

A game that combines "beating tiles", throwing, and jumping. Throw the back tile to touch the front tile, and then jump away according to the drawn grid according to the prescribed actions. Most of the partners fell at the last level. .

For oil lamps, use an ink bottle or a medicine bottle, preferably with an iron lid, and then use a tire valve with cotton thread inside as a wick. The bottle is filled with kerosene for daily lighting.

Wooden fake gun, carefully selected from pure wood, handmade, carried everywhere. If a boy cannot build such a gun, he will be looked down upon by his friends. As long as he can wear one on his waist, it is of no use. With his wooden pistol, he will be arrogant, with his nostrils pointing to the sky in a triumphant manner, and he will be a replica of "Gazi" in his spirit.

"Pistol" is an upgraded version of the wooden fake gun, just like the golden "Desert Eagle", which is superior to the essence. Using a steel frame (there are also wooden frames), a bicycle chain gun barrel, a cartridge case gun head, and a tire rubber band as the power device, it can hit the match head and hear the sound. Some people also fill the cartridge case with gunpowder, but it is often dangerous and the roar is huge. And cannot control it.

The "oil pen gun" uses an empty cylindrical refill, a steel rod, and two chewed paper grains. First push one grain to the front, then stuff the second grain into it, and use The steel bar was pushed forward violently and the rapid compression of air was used to shoot out the first pellet, which hurt the skin.

Liu, also known as "monkey" in Shaanxi, means top. It is made of wood, with a steel ball embedded in the bottom, and is whipped and rotated with a whip. The winner is determined by how long the rotation lasts.

Willow whistle, in the spring when the grass and trees are all green and everything revives, fold off the willow branches and peel off the remaining bark of the wood trunk to make a whistle. Made into a flute, the sound is rich and melodious.

Paper bubbles are made of two stacked pieces of writing paper. One side is flat and the other side is crossed with four triangles. Place it on the ground and tap each other, flip it over and keep it as your own. At that time, I wore my father's yellow military jacket and used the long sleeves to dance and borrow the wind's power. I also folded a paper bubble with two identical sides, but when I flipped it over, it still had the same side. The speed of my little brain was super high, and the ghosts were competing with each other.

To play with mud, pour water into the soil to make mud, mix it evenly into a bowl shape and deliberately leave one or a few weak points at the bottom. Turn it over and throw it to the ground, and use the airflow to blow away the "bah bang" sound. , the opponent will fill all the holes with the mud blocks in his hand.

Hoop rolling, the most popular self-made game, needs no introduction.

Glass marble marbles, this relatively high-end toy game, is a bit luxurious for us. We can only look at it, so we don’t like it very much. Occasionally getting one or two marbles is like finding a treasure. stand up.

Paper Kite is a homemade simple kite. The most simple one is a long strip of white paper, about a foot long, and a short string, about three to five meters long. It runs hard with a burst of whirring, and the wind rises. When he reached the height of ten feet, he was overjoyed, and then he got up and charged again.

Helicopter, ice cream stick, in the shape of a thin sheet, with a thin wooden stick embedded in the bottom. When you rub it upward with both hands, the ice cream insert will spin rapidly into the sky, and it can fly high for a long time.

Paper airplanes are made by folding a piece of paper in threes and fives. After a sigh of relief, you look up to the sky and throw it. It spins and flutters perfectly into the air, or it falls headlong and fails. With a slightly swollen face, he picked up the Sus and did two or three, mumbling something in his mouth, full of hope, and then raised his hands to take off.

A paper ship is made by folding a piece of paper several times and floating in a basin. Those who are willing to set up a flagpole in the center of the ship. Some people will light candles and smear the wax liquid all over the bottom of the boat. It takes a long time to play with such a specially-made ship, and our happiness is so simple.

"East, West, South, North, Center" is made of paper folded into four sides, with specific words or scenes written on each side. The operator lets people choose any direction at will, and then tells them how many horizontal and vertical directions they want, and opens and closes according to the specific numbers called to view the selected content.

"Cut the Ground", in fact, I have forgotten the name of the game. It is extremely simple. To make it, you only need to thin one end of the iron bar into a piece, sharpen the head, and cut it on the wet ground after the rain. A frame, and then use the made sharp objects to throw and insert them into the frame in turns, and continue to divide them until one side fails.

Military chess and chess can be simply replaced by pieces of paper, or carefully carved out of wood. Most of them are made by adults who love chess and ask good carpenters to process them. Children like us also make them, but they are rough and ugly. , the shape is extremely irregular. My favorite in my memory is a chess set made from the back covers of grenades that my elder brother collected during militia training. The flat surface is painted with black and red paint to make the characters clear and gorgeous, and the recesses are stuffed with solid wood. I can hold it in my hand. There is a special feeling in it, and I am so happy to be in high spirits on the battlefield.

To "build a beam", you need to use local materials, one side is made of wood, the other side is made of cigarette butts, or even a cigarette box can be made, one is made of tin foil with an inner core, and the other is made with an outer layer of cigarette paper. Going outside the box, you come and I go, it is suitable for all ages, fighting endlessly, forgetting to eat and sleep, this is still a business where old men in hometown gather together to make a living.

"Skating board" is made of simple wooden sticks, and the wooden version is a complete version. Slightly thicker iron bars are fixed under the two wooden sticks at the bottom, making it easy to slide on the ice and control the direction. , the size of the board is about two feet square, and then use wooden sticks and steel bars to make ice picks. Squat on the board, grab the ice picks with both hands and stab the ice surface with all your strength to slide forward using the reaction force.

"Pull out the stems", the name needs to be studied. It mainly uses the roots of poplar leaves to compete with each other to see who can break whom. Experienced people usually rub the roots of the poplar leaves until they are soft. It is best to pick up old leaves that have fallen off for a few days and have some decay. The roots are relatively strong. The roots of new leaves are full of water and are very brittle and will break when pulled.

Hide and seek, this is a game without toys and can be skipped, but it really aroused my desire to not vomit, because once I hid in a haystack and fell asleep, letting my family It was a good meal, and I also received a fat beating for it. I have a long memory and have not forgotten it for more than 30 years.

In "cockfighting", according to personal habits, you can hold up one trouser leg at will, or grasp the ankle, and jump around using the triangle knees formed to push, press, or pick the opponent over to win. .

"Squeeze the wall", after class, the outside wall of the classroom, two people in the middle are facing each other, and the other people are cheering and crowding from both sides to the middle. Maybe it was because the classrooms were not heated at that time and the students held group exercises to keep warm after class.

"Horse Vault", use the front and back of "Jiangjun Bao" to first pick out the first horse, and then the friends take turns to jump over it. Generally, in the first few rounds, because the horse is not high enough, they can jump over it. However, the person behind was short and had little jumping power and could not pass. If the horse blocked him, he would be replaced by the horse.

"Teleport", this is also a tool-free game, it is just a crazy run. I have described it in "My Home, By the Wulong River", so I won't go into details.

Girls play with skipping ropes, rubber bands, red ropes, shuttlecocks, collecting candy wrappers, and some boys collect cigarette wrappers. In my eyes, I disdain them.

Finally, I think I still need to mention the "Little Man's Book", which is about the size of a palm with rich pictures and texts. It costs only 12 cents a book and can be bought with a broken nickel. I used the New Year's money and the money I earned from digging "spend-saving ghosts" to collect a lot with my childhood friends, but now I can't find them.

In fact, the gameplay memory of many games is vague. The gameplay extension in this article was developed by me based on my memory. It is not fabricated out of thin air, but it also leaves an irreparable shortcoming of incomplete gameplay.

Nao Nao Nao lists more than thirty kinds of self-reliant childhood entertainment. Many of the game names were made up by me based on the game content. They may not have names at the time, but they really gave me My childhood brought endless happiness. Compared with today, although there are many games, they cannot bring people pleasure. What is more seriously missing is the training of self-hands-on ability.

I am very lucky that we had a happy childhood where we played together.

May we also live a happy life.