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Culture Insider: Children's games in ancient 皇冠体育app

By Bi Nan (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2017-06-01

Culture Insider: Children's games in ancient 皇冠体育app

The New Year painting from Qing Dynasty depicts people playing diabolo. Collected by the Capital Museum.

Playing diabolo

Diabolo is always made of wood or bamboo and is hollow in the center. By juggling diabolo on ropes, the high-speed rotating diabolo will make a sound.

Playing diabolo is a very interesting folk game, especially popular in North 皇冠体育app. Through many changes, it has become an item in Chinese traditional acrobatics. Playing diabolo was also included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.