Quil's folk story: The origin of the scale

the zhejiang and guangdong peoples, who live in fujian, zhejiang and guangdong, love to play “sizes” during their time of peace and leisure.

the “size” approach is as follows: many people are in the open field in a large circle, one man in a circle, with a wooden stick, how long a foot is called a “foot”, and one chopstick, which is called a “inch”.

the people in the circle struck the bamboo with a wooden stick, and they turned the bamboo and flew forward, and the people outside the circle ran to catch them.

if the bamboo is dropped, it will be picked up and thrown into the circle, where the person can catch it with his hand or where he can hit it with a wooden stick.

if the outsiders catch the inch, they win.

the winner replaces the inner circle.

how does such joy, tension and unique sport come about? here's another story.

legend has it that 700 years ago, the zhuang heroes blue feng gao led an attack by the zhuang army in fujiantin county.

since most of the troops were hunters, with crossbows, bamboo arrows and arrows in their hands, they killed the army and then came in a large number of reinforcements.

when the blue wind was so high, he ordered the army to retreat across the river, and he was left alone.

on both sides, when he was brave and afraid to approach, the officers gathered bows to shoot at the blue wind.

the blue wind also hit hard, too hard to pull it off.

in an emergency, he waved his bow strings to block the arrows fired by the officers and withdrew on the boat.

the officers were afraid that he would be brave and would not cross the river without knowing the truth.

blue feng finally secured tingzhou city.

later, in honour of blue wind's witty and courageous spirit, the sons and daughters practiced the skills of bow-throwing arrows, placing “sizes” around the open field every holiday or agricultural time。