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Guessing Riddles Written on Lanterns

Guessing Riddles Written on Lanterns
In the Song Dynasty, the custom of guessing riddles written on lanterns on Lantern Festival came...

Bamboo Dragonflies

Bamboo Dragonflies
A bamboo dragonfly is an age-old Chinese toy. The T-shaped toy is made up of a horizontal bar...

Ancient Ice Sports

Ancient Ice Sports
Ice sports, or "playing on ice" in ancient times, are various ice and snow games. In the Sui and...

Catching cicadas is a game loved by children at the dawn of summer.

There have been records of the game of catching and caging cicadas by children ever since the Han Dynasty. In Tang Dynasty, a new name was given to the game called "the fun in the forest". People liked to hang their cages with cicadas outside of their window to compete with the sound of the cicada. 

Children of today still use long bamboo poles attached with paste or sticky stuff on the tip to catch the cicadas on the trees. 

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  • Bird-watcher and Cicada-catcher
    Bird-watcher and Cicada-catcher
    Bird-watcher and Cicada-catcher
    The picture of Bird-watcher and Cicada-catcher, which is 1.68-meter high and 1.75-meter long, was unearthed in 1971 from the tomb of Li Xian, Zhanghuai Crown Prince of Tang Dynasty, in Qian County,...
  • The Wolf Has A Winning Game when the Shepherds Quarrel
    The Wolf Has A Winning Game when the Shepherds Quarrel
    The Wolf Has A Winning Game when the Shepherds Quarrel
    The Chinese version of the saying goes like this: "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind". We can find its origin in an allegory. It's said that during Spring and Autumn...

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