Entertainment

Introduction

The entertainment for the adults in the MD village are mainly making tea , chatting , playing chess or gardening. For the childen, they play with paper cards, playing marbles, sandbags, bamboo chopsticks gun, hopscotch, jump grid,etc. Besides those , there are outdoor movie and playing Mah-jong.

outdoor movie

In addition to festival activities, there was apopular leisure activity in the village at that time, which was"outdoor movie".

Outdoor movies, as the name suggests, are movies shown outdoors.This is in the 1970s began to popular, generally in the sun valley, school playground, the audience do not have to buy tickets to enjoy this free service.

The outdoor movie is a completely different from other theaters because the villagers are familiar with each other and they are not afraid of disturbing others. When they see something they do not understand, they will discuss it while watching it.

If the movie is really attractive, the big screen will be full of people, and the people who arrive late will even come to the back of the screen to enjoy it, forming an interesting scene at that time!

Ancient entertainment - fairy stick

Ancient entertainment - playing cards

The village people wait for the open air movie

Oral access

Interviewer：Zhu Yicheng
Mr.Zu said they play the same games like other kids do.In addition to Mah-jong or outdoor movies, the rest are almost the same. Their toys were all made by themselves, unlike us who buy them directly from shopping malls.

Subtitle: oral interview Interviewer: Mr. Zu, Yi-Chen , the chief Mr.Zu also mentioned that they used to play with paper cards, playing marbles, sandbags, bamboo chopsticks gun, hopscotch, jump grid, poker game or mahjong. Mahj-ong is a major game in the village, almost everyone all can play Mah-jong!" .