Many children know this hopscotch game. But with the evolution of the times, fewer and fewer children play this game regularly these days.
Why?
Because there's not much to do on the land in the countryside, except for things like writing the character "王" (king) while stopping and starting, hopscotch... Now most people yearn for life in big cities, so they've all left the countryside and come to the big cities. There are so many kinds of games now, some are intelligent... and so on, there are slides, checkers, Gomoku, Chinese chess, video game consoles like Contra... and so on—so many that it's dazzling and impossible to count them all.
To sum it up in one sentence: there's nothing you can't get, only things you haven't thought of.
Therefore, this kind of hopscotch game is more commonly seen in rural areas or older towns and villages.
Everyone has their own way of drawing hopscotch. In Yingbao's memory, hopscotch consists of 9 squares. The arrangement of the squares is somewhat like the Chinese character "干" (gān), which is commonly used in Chinese. The last square, the 9th square, is a semicircle drawn on top of the character "干".
Below the semicircle are cells 7 and 8, one on the left and one on the right. Below them is a single cell 6. Then there is another row of cells, with cell 4 on the left and cell 5 on the right. At the end, there are only three cells left. Draw three more cells in the middle below cells 4 and 5.
3——2——1.
"Yingbao, Yingbao, what are you thinking about?" Xiao Mingchen was eager to play and wanted to urge his little sister Yingbao to draw quickly, but he could only be tactful for fear of getting a beating.
With his older brothers nearby, he had a slight sense of danger and dared not act recklessly!
"Oh...oh, right away." Yingbao immediately snapped out of her reverie, grabbed the twig, and quickly drew a hopscotch game. Soon, a fresh hopscotch game was born.
Yingbao casually put the branch aside, intending to go home and get it back later. After all, she had taken it from home, and she should end where she started. One should see things through to the end.
Never underestimate anything; it can easily become a habit without you even realizing it...
Let me give you an example. Take today's incident, for instance. If Yingbao takes out a twig or stick and doesn't take it back, it might not seem like a big deal once or twice. But if she takes it out and throws it away every day without any regard for the consequences, it will accumulate and waste a lot of things over time!
Even though ants are small, they know how to work hard and move their nest bit by bit.
Therefore, we should learn from its spirit. As the saying goes, small victories lead to great victories. Even if it seems ineffective at the moment, as long as we make small efforts every day, we can eventually shake the tree and achieve great success.
Yingbao then picked up a pebble and demonstrated to her brothers how to play. After playing it a couple of times and explaining the rules, they were finally allowed to start.
The rules are to stand at the starting point and throw a "stone" at any numbered square. If you hit a number, you can play in turn. If you miss, you have to stop for a round and wait for someone else to finish before you can go back to the game.
The eldest brother, Ye Yuanhang, remained calm and performed steadily as always, hitting the target on his first try, and even managing to get it into the last square.
Wow, is this person playing hopscotch for the first time?
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