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Almost everyone knows the game Blindfold began goats. But how to play it ... depends. I have started many games Blindfold different goat! He began goats, she began sides ... depending on local laws allow it or not!
Blindfolded arrested goat is one of "the theater department," of village affairs, was Phan Ke Binh said the play of the 20th century's first years as follows:

It is preparing a wide beach, surrounded by northern-aligned for goats from running out. In the drop of the several goats. Who to start goat had to carefully blindfold. Getting goat goat does that always rewards (1).

From time immemorial, the village festival awards around the often just the money, tea bags or silk square, hanging on pole tops. Now the village is always the goat reward for anyone who could capture. There are some villages do not know have enough money to buy five to seven goats as a prize?

Recently, the group said Phan Thanh Hien was arrested goat Blindfold be played at the Dong Ky village, Phu Man (Yen Phong). Playing another way:

It prepares the field and drop a goat, for a pair of boys and girls blindfolded, wearing robe, wearing rattles, catching goats. Goats are also wearing robe, worn as rattles. At play, the goat is difficult to distinguish. Boys and girls grope, grope, hugging each other ... be happy as goats. Viewers increasingly amused. Applause, screaming.

Catching goats blindfolded Dong Ky village can multiple people simultaneously came in to catch goats (2).

Dong Guan Village Association has:

(...)
Getting goat, duck catching, climbing the
Come back every game he said before (...) (3).
Do not know Getting goat Is goat Blindfold catch it?
Except two of Phan Ke Binh village festival and Phan Thanh Hien, not heard traditional festivals (4) or cult festival (5) other (including Dong Ky village!) Blindfold play catch goats.

Actually, Blindfold arrested Phan Thanh Hien's goat just described folk painting tape caught the eye goat (carved in circa 1930) by Maurice Durand (6). According to Durand, the tapes caught the eye of Vietnam goat is French colin-Maillard.

Colin-Maillard game choose one person, blindfolded, to go arrest the circle around the head fins. Getting the right person and say that's the name of the winner. Were forced to turn people away blindfolded catch others. The game continues like that.

Yet others insisted that Blindfold catch a game of chance goats west.

Hanoi from French colonial rule ...

- Each year, it opened July 14th Assembly "the middle" to have fun, revealed the humiliating role. Come on, dig a hole in the ground, drop goats, and then blindfolded people entered chase, it's catching goats blindfolded games. Licking game boasts pan it to contract into a basin filled with soot, who is proud, then licked it. Fat column climbing, pot scrapers games (7).

We can Blindfold arrested goat was first played at the West of Nam Dinh:

- On the occasion of French National Day July 14, 1884, the governor of Nam Dinh get everyone home to the French flag. House does not hang the money will be fined 50! For example, the governor suspended his doorstep a flag Annam and two French flag of "protecting" the two sides.

Nam Dinh province around, streets everywhere houses Fluttering French flag. Spectacle "fun" as the Western Association of Nguyen Extension.

Behold the average grain crackers rang ups
How many flags hanging lamp pull ...
She underwent the pool tênh nghếch view
He crouched calf cheo
Dependable power many women shrug elm
His column of money too fat to climb ...
Praise someone clever jokes that draw
How much fun this much humiliation!
               (Nguyen Extension, Western Union)
At 7 am, the 21-gun fire into a coffee farm festival started signaling. Governor to organize more games: cockfighting, bullfighting, fighting fish, swinging, climbing fat column, puppetry, singing opera, blindfolded arrested goats, pigs caught in the pond, canoe, fish and shrimp, shock discs. ..
In the afternoon, the ministers reception. Eating at the largest and most beautiful pagoda in Nam Dinh ... Partying is complete, the Western "remind" my opinion. After the "speech", the daughter watching the dance ...

Catching goats blindfolded in Nam Dinh play doctor Hocquard detailed description:

Playground Blindfold arrested goat is a circular piece of land, measuring about 7, 8 meters. Bamboo fencing around. Halfway up a pole, hung on the tops 4 the bonus (bonus not a tenth the fine for not flying the flag of France!). Playground was digging holes, plug the pile, poured muddy water. They drop a goat into the field, for a person to catch blindfolded. Players fumbled, stumbled, amusing the crowd stood watching. Who captures the winning goat horns (8).

According to Dao Duy Anh, the goat Blindfold catch a kid's game. Unfortunately, said Dao Duy Anh not play the star (9).

Hang Trong paintings Xuan Luc contract to paint the father sat drinking tea on the porch, watching children play Blindfold crowd began goats in the yard. The children play with real goat. Unfenced playground. The children of this violent too!

Blindfold children playing catch goats
Hanoi remembers the 1950 flood devil Blindfold play catch goats on Le Loi street. A blindfolded child chasing the girls are cheering on every side. Alarming.

Accidentally children had blindly imitate adult Blindfold game is called catching goats. Properly be called ... colin-Maillard 100%.

Catching goats blindfolded game of both adults and children, a place to play a way, it's hard to be a game of "folk, traditional" is.

Please discuss more ...

Paintings invite you to watch tapes of Durand eye catching goats. Name notable paintings.

Tapes eye catching goats (Durand)
There are two ways to read the letter Tapes:

1) read in letters drought Durand ice (frost).

But the tape (the drought) is not right with the content of the paintings. So Tapes must be understood in another sense. French sense ... of the Vietnamese!

- Ice (bande) is a strip of fabric or plastic used to cover up, or gumming things. Students used tape to paste paper. Electrician tape used to wrap cover electrical junction seconds ...

- Ice (pansement) is sealed, covered. The doctor bandaged the wound.

The French also brought into the country in many different tapes. Large ribbon cutting instruments (Ruban) inaugurated the bank (banque)! Gang (bande) gangsters gathered around a few benches (banc) in the park ...

Only French people knew blindfold (Bander les yeux) play colin-Maillard. The name caught the eye tapes to show that this is a French game.

2) The word ice is undiminished read literally (or table).

Bung sealing means (eye), the cover, the cover for the secret government. Dark as Lowland, Lowland mouth giggling, conceal the truth. Blindfolded catch birds (proverbs). Think momentum hid orifice (Overseas).

Games goat named Bung eye catching. Blindfold later became caught goats. Name of the game is not fixed because the game is new. Not the traditional game.

Books about North Border investigation period (1908) by Gustave Dumoutier part:

- People can see a lot of childish games in Annam Europe. Singing, chase, arrayed, swinging, go away, long jump, catch goats, kites, hopscotch, opinionated reviews, shuttlecock, playing marbles (balls are replaced with pebbles) etc.

Colin-Maillard was (who Annam) called the game began goats: players standing in a circle, riders catching goats blindfolded, standing between. Getting someone and call the right name, the winner (10).

Dumoutier recognized that goat's Getting Colin-Maillard.

In addition, there are goats Blindfold catch Guests, notably:

1. Social feudal old men and women perceptions relative segregation. Men and women put together something and receive something of each other, not that exchanged hands.

Before the French colonial period, was impossible for "immorality", for boys and girls slid between the light of day, making fun for the crowd.

2. Feudal Society filial weight: Body found Lady, Life subgenus cancellation form any commercial sense, hospitality expenditures wild fisheries. Hair torso skin, birth parents, do not be destroyed, so the first taste.

Boys and girls play a blind eye to the immorality, disloyalty.

3. For goat dressed like a robe, for wearers rattles like goats. Confusion people and animals. Hierarchy of feudal not allow "feel" it.

Catching goats blindfolded inconsistent with morality, feudal morality. Village dares to "play", dare despise "Confucius, Meng" so?

In short, began goat Blindfold games are not "traditional" mine.

Painting Oger (1909) have drawn a man plate play catch loaches in jars. At the same time there painting paintings Oger Du Spring Festival drawing a pair of shoulders with each...