A Study On Chinese Ancient Games Of Children

Abstract: Game has a long history, since the existence of human society, game are there. The games of children, as one of the two basic activities wither learning, its important position and function were notice by ancient educators long ago. In each different historical periods, people created various new forms of the game, however, the game has lost the due position in education gradually. This article attempts to analyze from a historical view to make a study of the development process of china's ancient game, analyze the characteristics of the ancient game and the effect in children's development, look for the reason why the game disappeared in ancient education, and try to find some useful enlightenment for the relations of children education and game.This text is mainly divided into several following parts. The first part explained the emergence and development of ancient games of children. China's ancient game has already appeared from prehistoric period, but the game at that time was simple, primitive, spontaneous, and always mixed with production, life and religion activities.The Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods is the important period for the development of China's ancient game. Under the different values and social concepts a lot of game activities are arisen; Tang and Song Dynasty is the great prosperity stage for development of China's folk game. Because the political and economic prosperity and the larger of citizen stratum, various recreation have got great abundant and completion; In the period of Ming and Qing, the prevailing of Neo-Confucianism had a very great impact on education. Neo-Confucianism recommend " on Natural justice, eradication of desire", corresponding to advocate " abstinence" and "main course" learning and cultivation methods, which used in education and society, So the students show weakness and suave. At this point, Chinese ancient games of children demonstrate strong "moral" and "genteel" tendency.Second, third, fourth part deal with the characteristic, kind and meaning of Chinese ancient game. These games can be sorted the following aspects; Intelligence game, Sport game, Language game, Live game, Scientific game and Art game, etc.These rich and colorful games of children are regarded as the important component of China's traditional culture and education, there are several distinct features of them: 1.