Life style : Mien entertainment

     Now, the amusement of Mien people in their daily is fading away especially amusement for the older or the teenagers. The amusements for the kids as chase about that they play together boys and girls, a top spin, make a bamboo as a long leg to walk. Mien do not have the amusement in each culture or in the festival, they have amusements in the worship or ceremonies, frequently in wedding ceremony and the New Year that can have absolutely party, amusements.

Mien forms of entertainment. 1.catapults (Tang-Gong)        These are made from axils that look like the capital letter Y. Put a slingshot in the top of capital later Y, then they can use this as put the stone in the middle of the slingshot and shoot. 2.A bamboo gun (Phang-Phang)        This is a favorite plaything of children. They use bamboo to make the gun, whiten other bamboo to serve as arrows and make bullets for shooting from fruit.

3. The pump (House-Dong-Fae)      This is made from bamboo. makes the lift pump and put in the pump. Mien play with this by pumping the water in and squirting their friends. They play this game in the summer time. 4. Bamboo stilts (Ma-Gea-House)      This is made from bamboo that lifts the wearer about two metres off the ground. For the pedal high from the ground around 50 centimeters or higher than depending on the player. This playing very enjoyable for the kids. This game can play in every season or ceremonies. They play this game by stand in the long leg bamboo and run.

5.The string trestle (Mah-Gea-Hang)      it made from the stringThey take 2 bamboos and punch out the bamboos and put the string in the both of it. They play by nip the string by the finger toe. 6.Top spins (Ta-Hlow)      This game is enjoyable but only for a boy. They play this game when have a free time from their work in the farm. Man will go to the forest to cut the wood to make the top. They made it by whittles it to acute or some people put the steel in the acute to make the top long cycle. They play by separate 2 teams and playing. 7. The marbles (Pu-See)      The marbles is the one of the game of Mien’s kid. The kids will change the playing as the season change. 8.They play by flick the marble to the hole by hand. Banana leafstalk (Nom-Jew-Fad)       They cut the banana leaf from the stalk and cut the stalk and cock up, and then flick the hand on it that will has the voice from it. This game very safety and it favorite for the kids.

Information: From the book “The Local knowledge of Mien” 

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