Excerpts from (playing walnuts and enjoying walnuts)

Walnut, formerly known as Walnut, is also known as Qiangtao, Wanzizi or longevity fruit. According to the records of famous doctors, "this fruit came from Hu Qiang. When Zhang Qian went to the Western Ocean in the Han Dynasty, it was planted and transplanted in the middle of Qin Dynasty and gradually spread to the East." Hu Qiang in ancient times refers to Gansu and Ningxia in South Asia, Eastern Europe and Xinjiang. When Zhang Qian was introduced to the Central Plains, it was named "Walnut". According to historical records, in 3 19 AD, Schleswig, the general of the State of Jin, occupied the Central Plains and established the post-Zhao Dynasty. Because of its taboo "Hu", it changed "walnut" to "walnut". The second Ming dynasty continues to this day.

In addition to edible walnuts, there are about 100 kinds of walnuts with different sizes, thick skins, big heads, many wrinkles, strange shapes and beautiful lines. These walnuts can be used as "hand-processed walnuts" and carved walnuts for people to watch and collect, so they are favored by people.

"Hand therapy walnut" is also called "fitness walnut" and "palm bead". In ancient times, it was called "kneading walnuts by hand". Looking back, it originated in the Han and Sui Dynasties, prevailed in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the long history of more than 2,000 years, it has spread widely and formed a unique walnut culture in China.

Throughout the ages, emperors and princes, gifted scholars and beautiful women, bureaucrats and ordinary people are all proud of having a pair of delicate and shiny walnuts. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, playing walnuts reached its peak. Tomorrow, Emperor Zhu Youxiao will not only play with walnuts, but also carve them himself. Therefore, it is popular in unofficial history that "playing walnuts forgets state affairs, while Zhu Youxiao plays imperial cases". Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was not only a great expert on walnuts, but also said to have written poems praising walnuts: the sun and the moon are spinning in the palm of their hands, and time wants to turn back.

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By the end of the Qing dynasty, the wind of enjoying walnuts in the palace was more prosperous. There was a pair of good walnuts in his hand, which became a symbol of status, worth and taste at that time. At that time, it was widely rumored in Beijing: "Baylor has three treasures in his hand, pulling fingers, walnuts and caged birds." Whenever the emperor or queen's birthday, ministers will choose the first-class walnuts as birthday gifts, which shows the value of pinching walnuts.

At present, the Palace Museum in Beijing still keeps more than a dozen hand-rubbed walnuts, which are reddish brown in color and stored in beautifully carved rosewood boxes. It is marked with the words "Baylor is ready to move forward" and "Prince is ready".

The wind of rubbing walnuts in the palace naturally affected the society. People are divided into several categories, and those who play walnuts rank first, that is, literati play walnuts, martial men turn iron balls, rich people carry gourds, and idle people walk dogs (referring to the custom at that time). Today, Tianjin people still call the kneaded walnut "Wan Wen Walnut", which is the reason.

In the process of playing walnuts, people exercise their hands by rubbing, kneading, pressing, stabbing, kneading, rolling, etc. by using the spikes, protrusions and edges of walnuts, and press the acupoints on the palms to stimulate the reaction areas on their hands, so as to achieve the effects of relaxing muscles and tendons, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and strengthening the body. Because walnut skin is thick and firm, after long-term hand rubbing, sweat infiltration, oil penetration and time polishing, it finally becomes a natural art with bright inside and red outside, but agate is not better than agate. In the minds of people who play walnuts, walnuts are not only fitness equipment, but also a work of art, which is the apple of their eye that integrates playing, fitness and viewing.

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