"Talking about the World" childhood "cockfighting" game (prose).
Xue Hongxin. 
I was born in the sixties of the last century. In my childhood, there was a popular game called "cockfighting". When it's cold, during the day or on the moonlit ground, children with "cockfighting" can be seen everywhere. "Cockfighting" means that each person lifts one of his legs, bends it into a triangle, and holds his feet with both hands, so that his knees become "chicken heads". People form an independent posture of the golden rooster and jump to "fight". "During the battle", two people raised their "chicken heads" and attacked each other. "Cockfighting" is not only a display of strength, but also skill and skill. The golden rooster is independent and can only rely on one leg and one foot to jump back and forth. Hold your feet with your hands, you can't hold it too "dead", and you can't hold it too loosely. If you hold too "dead", once you are violently attacked by the other party and you are not careful, you may fall "back to the eight forks". If you hold it too loosely and are attacked, the "chicken head" will fall apart.
Because the "cockfight" does not need any auxiliary tools, and it will not hurt anyone, at most it is a wrestling. In the process of "cockfighting", you can not only warm up but also exercise, so "cockfighting" is quite popular with children. At that time, the event venue was all land, and when I fell, I got up and patted the dirt on my buttocks, picked up one foot and continued to fight.
In the process of "cockfighting", there is often a side that falls, and the losing side will be embarrassed by the partners, but not annoyed. No matter how painful the fall is, no matter how miserable the loss is, you can't be annoyed, and you can't hold grudges.
In that era of material scarcity, the most common things children played were "cockfighting", pushing steel rings, playing glass eggs, kicking shuttlecocks, etc., although these projects were simple and even unhygienic, but they were children's favorites. When it's cold, children often play steaming hot, and their heads and faces are flushed. Today, it seems that these games are not on the "Hall of Elegance", and they are even incompatible with today's concept of safety and hygiene, but these dirty things have become the best memories of our post-60s and post-70s. Now, I don't remember a lot of things when I was a teenager, but if I talk about who was the most fierce in "cockfighting", who was the most courageous when he poked a hornet's nest, and who jumped into a natural ditch and smothered in the river for a while, I would definitely talk about it. Today's children, I'm afraid they are also sad about "cockfighting" addiction in their dreams, right?
"Cockfighting" is a sports game that is both physical and exciting and fun. "Cockfighting" is generally a two-person game, the two sides can take: bump, press, lift, top different techniques, one side left foot to the ground or hand to the ground, people fall to the ground for the "fight" to lose.
The game of "cockfighting" has one-on-one "heads-up", as well as a few or more than a dozen "scuffles". "Cockfighting" also has game safety rules, first of all, you can only fight between the same age, and the height can not be too different, and you can only fight each other's legs, not your chest, and the violator is regarded as a foul.
At that time, I belonged to the category of "short", and in order to win the "cockfight", I often practiced "one-legged jumping", speed and endurance at home when no one was playing; Practicing "cockfighting" skills such as "smashing chickens", "picking chickens" and "flashing chickens", the hard work paid off, and slowly I became a "ruthless character" among the "cockfighting" people.
The years have passed, and now the game of "cockfighting" has long disappeared. Not long ago, I got together with a few young people and talked about the "cockfighting" in childhood, and everyone blurted out: "Cockfighting cockfighting is knee-to-knee, jumping and jumping is really interesting." If you fall to the ground, you are not afraid of pain, so you can cross your feet and continue to ......”
Xue Hongxin, male, middle ** member. He has published personal anthologies such as "The Dream of Xiaohe", "Mother-in-law is Dad", "Ke Jinle", and his works are scattered in "People's Literature", "Story Club", "Story World", "Folk Literature", "Ancient and Ancient Legend Story Edition", "Legendary Story", "Ancient and Modern Story Newspaper", "Contemporary Literature", "Henan**", "Xinxiang**", "Pingyuan Evening News" and other hundreds of newspaper and periodical network platforms, and now works for the Yuanyang County Urban Management Bureau, a member of the Yuanyang County Elderly Scholar Group, and the vice chairman of the Yuanyang County Writers Association.