Is it too embarrassing to choose a smart toy for your child? It is right to read this!

However, there are many that have not changed. For example, the original intention of consumers to buy toys is still to inspire children's intelligence and exercise their children's ability. There are more high-tech toys, and parents are worried about whether they will reveal privacy and whether there will be radiation. The most important thing is that these high-tech toys are expensive! ! !

In fact, there are many toy options that inspire intelligence. Xiao Bian recently saw a "Folk Intelligence Toy " published at the end of the 20th century, and sorted out the traditional Chinese intellectual toys. Some of these toys have now been lost, and some other toys have been preserved to this day and have been continuously improved, resulting in many other categories of toys.

"Folk Intelligence Toys" mentions more than 80 kinds of folk intelligence toys. Among them, Qiqiao, Jiuhuan and Huarong Road are also called the three ancient Chinese intellectual toys. (This book has a great history~~~)

Combined with the introduction of the book, Xiaobian has screened some traditional intellectual toys that still enjoy the market today and recommend them to the readers. (PS: Some design concepts and cultural connotations of these toy applications can also provide reference for the game companies to develop new products)

01 chain class

The term "chain toy" refers to a puzzle in which two or more ring members are provided in a structure, and the components are decomposed or combined between the members.

The most familiar comic toys we have are the nine-ring chain. Regarding the origin of the Jiu Lianhuan, the legend of the square is a traditional folk intellectual toy originating from the Western Han Dynasty. It has almost 2,000 years of history in China. It is connected in a string with 9 rings to unlock it. At first, the Jiu Lianhuan used jade as a material to make two coherent rings. Later, instead of jade, copper or iron became a toy for women and children. In the West, there were nine serial records in Europe before the 16th century. At any time, the nine-ring chain has a clever symbol.

Jiuhuan is still one of the best selling toys for e-commerce platform

In addition to the nine-ring, there are many toys in the chain, such as question mark ring, plum ring, snail ring, earphone chain, snail chain and so on.

Chain toys can train people's thinking logic and space imagination, and adults and children can play. Special reminder: Children who are over 3 years old must play.

02 Slider class

Any of the intellectual toys that are placed on the same chassis as the movable unit of the slider, and whose purpose of changing the arrangement of the sliders is the slider type.

Huarong Road is the most famous slider toy in China. Its name is taken from the story of Guan Yu in Huarong Dao, the interpretation of Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When parents accompany their children to play Huarong Road, they may also tell the children about this historical story.

Huarong Road's gameplay is to shift the slider (can only be translated one by one), so that Cao Cao, who lives in the initial position, escapes from the exit. At present, the fastest solution for Huarong Road is 81 steps.

The current style of Huarong Road is the patent that John Harold Fleming applied for in the United Kingdom in 1932, and he also attached a solution to the horizontal knife.

On the basis of Huarong Road, many similar toys have been derived, such as 2×3=6, row 15 and so on, which are called digital Huarong Road.

The initial state of row 15 is also the state to be presented. On the chassis, 1 to 13 numbers are arranged in order, and 14 and 15 are reversed in order, requiring the child to arrange the 15 numbers in order by panning the slider.

Slider toys can cultivate people's spatial imagination; the ability of hands and eyes to coordinate highly.

03 Rubik's Cube

As the name implies, it is a toy similar to Rubik's Cube. This type of toy is interconnected by several identical or similar units to form an unbreakable whole, and is transformed into a topology (a discipline that studies the geometry or space that remains unchanged after successively changing shape). Use the purpose of the puzzle.

In addition to the Rubik's Cube, there are also magic wands, magic feet, magic snakes, magic horns, magic boards, magic nets, magic columns, magic turntables and so on.

Magic wand / magic ruler can make a variety of different shapes

Magic board

Magic column

For everyone to popularize the origin of the Rubik's Cube: Rubik's Cube in English, also known as Rubik's Cube, was first invented in 1974 by Professor Erno Rubik of the Budapest School of Architecture in Hungary. Rubik's Cube was introduced to China in the 1980s. Rubik's Cube, together with Huarong Road and Independent Diamond Chess, is called the three incredible figures in the intellectual game industry by foreign intellectual experts.

Rubik's cube toys can cultivate people's ability to do hands and brains, and to a great extent train people's memory, judgment and spatial imagination.

04 Other classes

In addition to the above three types of intellectual toys, there are also some jigsaw puzzles, inlays, magic windows, sewing, swaying boxes, labyrinths and so on. However, some of these toys have changed a lot with the loss of time. Xiaobian recommends three of them:

Creative jigsaw puzzles, in addition to stitching a variety of shapes, can also be used to fill cartoon pictures.

Magnetic labyrinth toys, children can use magnetic rods to suck the scattered beads, and bring the beads to the end in the winding road. You can practice your baby's hand-eye coordination ability and develop your baby's analysis and observation skills.

Kong Mingsuo, also known as Lu Bansuo, uses a squat structure to insert toys.

Traditional toys not only condense the traditional culture of our country, but the price is relatively low, the price is relatively low, and the price is relatively low (the important thing is said three times)!

According to a small series of searches on an e-commerce platform, the prices of these toys are mostly between 10 yuan and 20 yuan. Only a few products with magnetic, sound and light elements are added, and the price is more than 30 yuan. Therefore, the key to choosing a toy is whether it meets the expectations of parents to educate their children. It is not the more functions, the better, the more expensive the better!