如今，"六一"早已不是小朋友的"專利"，那些唱著"不想長大"的"老小孩"也開始"搭車"蹭節，期盼借此找回曾經的童心。

As the Children's Day draws near, various children gift sales are booming. Some old-style toys are especially popular among the post-70s and 80s generations, who buy themselves or their friends toys as gifts. Transformers and Barbie dolls are most popular, while some other classic ones like iron toy cars, building blocks and water guns are all flying off the shelves. Most orders' shipping addresses are at office buildings, enterprises and institutions, a toy shopkeeper said.

Most adult kids appreciate their childhood very much. Their feelings get intense when Children's Day is near. Their childhood memories are entangled with symbolic foods, toys and ballads revived on the same day. Do you still remember those delicious snacks such as Dada bubble gum, White Rabbit creamy candy, dried plum powder and Small Raccoon crispy noodles? How to play those simple but interesting games like paper folding, hopscotch and iron ring pushing? And how to sing those childhood ballads like Maibaoge (newspaper selling song), Xiaoluohao (conch) and Zhaopengyou (making friends)?

On every Children's Day, some of the post-70s and 80s generations would get together, wearing red scarves of the Young Pioneers, striped shirts and white sneakers, to do gymnastics to music on the radio and play the kids' games like eagle vs chickens, shuttlecock kicking, rubber band skipping, marbles playing and rope skipping. They found their trouble-free old time joy in running after each other, screaming and laughing. "We are confronted by complicated societal relations and various pressures after stepping into society," a post-70s who takes part in the celebration said. "The games we played at an early age can purify our heart and help us get back the purest part we had."

Zhang Wenjun, a post-70s, obsessively played classic Nintendo Famicom games such as Contra, Super Mario and Battle City. "Our passion for these old games is hard to understand by kids growning up playing computer games and PSP," he said. When he was a kid, his parents were too strict and didn't let him play those games except on big holidays. Playing video games brought him great happiness then. Playing them now seems to take him back to his childhood.

A post-80s office lady said she would watch a few favorite cartoons on every Children's Day to remember her childhood memories and happiness. As a kid, she would sit tight in front of the TV set at 6 pm everyday to watch cartoon series like "Black Cat Detective", "Calabash Brothers", "Doraemon" or "Tom And Jerry". Today those familiar scenes and characters still make her feel joyful and happy.

Xinxin, a post-80s netizen, posted her elementary school textbooks on a microblog, evoking childhood memories in others. Some said those familiar textbook covers, illustrations and articles almost brought tears to their eyes. Those fading memories suddenly were fresh and alive. The painting style of the illustrations for "A Pony Crossing a River" is really cute, some netizens said. Maths textbook covers were always yellow and blue, and you could tell from the covers their content was getting more and more difficult. And you could immediately sing a song from those familiar lyrics in music textbooks: "Little birds lead ahead, wind breezes us..."

As post-70s and 80s generations, though we are grown up, we still miss our childhood, a netizen said. Our celebration of the holiday is to soothe our heart where a kid is still living inside, he added.

Though nowadays people celebrate more holidays, either traditional as Spring Festival and Mid-autumn Day or western like Valentine's Day and Christmas, they have invariably turned into something hateful and commercially oriented. People always get exhausted by the holidays themed with feasting, present giving and partying. In contrast, Children's Day is far simpler in its content, as a day full of balloon, spun sugars and playgrounds, and a day those grown-ups covet most to find back their self-esteem.

老玩具

小人書: picture-story book

玻璃彈珠: marbles

鐵皮青蛙: iron jumping frog

橡皮泥: plasticene

變形金剛: transformer

芭比娃娃: Barbie doll

萬花筒: kaleidoscope

魔方: magic cube

積木: building block

游戲類

老鷹捉小雞: chicken vs eagle

丟手絹: drop the handkerchief and guess

跳皮筋: rubber band skipping

滾鐵環: iron ring pushing

折紙: paper folding

跳房子: hopscotch

翻繩: turned rope

跳大繩: rope skipping

零食類

大大泡泡糖: Dada bubble gum

大白兔奶糖: White Rabbit creamy candy

跳跳糖: popping candy

棉花糖: spun sugar

酸梅粉: dried plum powder

小浣熊干脆面: Small Raccoon crispy noodle

膨化食品: puffed food