World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 55 "Childhood Sweetheart"

In ancient times, there was a custom of men and women throwing plums to each other during the plum ripening season.If the green plum is not ripe, it means that it is only a friendship between a young man and a woman.Bamboo horse, which uses bamboo instead of horse, is a game that many children love to play.The child clamps a piece of bamboo pole under his crotch, holds the front end of the bamboo pole with one hand, and makes a whip-like gesture with the other hand.Shouting in the mouth, running with both feet, like riding a horse.

Both childhood sweethearts and bamboo horses are representative of childhood, so people often call those male and female partners who grew up together and have a good friendship as "childhood sweethearts".

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