Chapter 9 Qing court children's play

Most people always think that children's entertainment in the palace must be full of tricks, different from folk.In fact, the methods of playing are almost the same. For some games that are more intense, the deacons in the palace are afraid of danger, so they dare not take the lead in advocating them! Yu Sheng was also late, and the Tongguang period of the Qing Dynasty did not catch up.All that was heard and seen was that the Qing emperor abdicated, and Jin Yumao and the concubines took Xuantong to the Forbidden City in just a few years.Now write it out for readers' reference. It is said that since Kangxi ascended the throne and executed Oboi, Minister Gu Ming, dogs were advocated for self-defense.Later, not only the concubine, concubine, elder brother, and princess raised dogs, but also the eunuchs and officials had to raise a few dogs to amuse and relieve boredom.Except for the Tibetan mastiffs in the official nursing home, dogs in the government generally pay attention to pugs with a big head, a wide face, short legs and long hair, especially the smaller the body, the more expensive.It is said that the smallest dogs of this type are also called sleeve dogs, and they can hide in people's sleeves to keep warm in winter.Northerners wear a kind of shoes in mid-winter, with heavy cotton and thick soles called Old Tou Le, and lying in the Old Tou Le in front of the kang is a comfortable nest for sleeved dogs.According to the legend of the palace supervisors, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a palm print eunuch named Du Yong introduced this miniature puppy into the inner palace and bred it.There is a set of secrets to raising a sleeve dog, and you must be very careful.In the early years of the Republic of China, sleeve dogs were extremely rare outside, but if you were willing to pay a lot of money to exchange a pair or two with the eunuchs in the government, you might still be able to get one.

Xuantong and his concubines Wanrong and Concubine Shu all liked to raise puppies, and they trained puppies to learn things when they were free.There are a few pet dogs who are good at pulling carts, pushing rollers, stacking arhats, and holding bamboo baskets, and they are foolproof.Among them is a dog named Wuzui with golden hair, which can jump four layers of hoops one by one.Folk monkeys, there is a puppy jumping in circles, and it is pretty good to be able to jump two floors at a time.His dog can jump four floors in one breath, which proves that he has worked hard in training. One year, probably because of Johnston's (Xuantong's English teacher), Xuantong suddenly became interested in foreign dogs. Suddenly, there were more than ten or twenty wolf dogs of all kinds around him. The eunuch of dogs, but there are too many dogs, and if one is absent-minded and not taken care of well, it will bite and hurt people.Once Pu Jie bought a new-style walking stick and brought it into the palace. For some reason, a tiger-headed dog suddenly became animalistic and rushed straight up. Fortunately, the palace guards were quick enough to rescue him. Although he was not bitten, But Pu Jie's sleeves were torn to pieces.Later, when the imperial concubine Duankang found out about this, she asked every foreign dog to wear a muzzle, otherwise she would have hurt so many people!

"English Solitaire" is also a game that Xuantong often plays after learning English.At the beginning of Xuantong's English learning, he worked hard and always wanted to memorize more new words, so Teacher Johnston came up with this game for him.The method is to take an English book at random and state which page, line and word it is on. If it turns out that the letter ending in people is e, the next person will have to say a word beginning with e.Everyone starts with the last letter of the English spoken by the previous person, and it goes on and on until it is someone's turn to be unable to continue.This kind of puzzle game can indeed memorize more new words, but there is a prohibition, that is, no one is allowed to turn over words in a dictionary.However, there are not many princes and sons who can speak English, and when there are too few people, they can only use the eunuchs who accompany them to make up the number.There was a young eunuch named Degui who was not only smart and convenient, but also had a strong memory. Whenever the air in the room was dull, he could use a few words to make everyone laugh and the atmosphere became relaxed.He has a nickname in the officialdom called "Silly Second Brother".To say that he is stupid, in fact, he is smarter and smarter than anyone else, but he is good at pretending to be stupid, so it is not easy for people to notice.He spends most of his time working in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, because he is too young, so he can only clean the table, sweep the floor, and do some light work.There is a "Webster's Dictionary" in the suite of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, which is placed on a wooden shelf, and the silly second brother looks through the dictionary in front of the shelf when he has nothing to do.He specializes in memorizing words that are not commonly used, and when encountering words that Xuantong can't continue, he either secretly reminds or assists them, so when playing Solitaire, Xuantong wins most of the time.This kind of game of English Solitaire has been played in the palace for several years, until Xuan Tong's wedding, this game, gradually?Xiao lost.Now that I think about it, this game can indeed help people memorize more English words, but unfortunately not many people play it now.If someone intends to memorize more new words, this game is worth advocating.