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China’s various national industries began to form after the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to take during this time, the constant semi-permanent China, subject to the separation of powers. A group of patriots began manufacturing and development of domestic products. Among them were some toy manufacturers and publishers such as the Shanghai Commercial Press, China can Company and The New Art Toy, who has taken the lead role in the development of the toy industry in China. However, many factories were forced to toy business is no longer in the second world war. For the moment the war ended, they were only toys some 200 workers left. The People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949 and defined in the Government of the Central African Republic, the development of the toy industry, laying down rules for the enhancement of technical skills. In 1958, the toy industry began to formulate a system of standards and compilation of code that is appropriate goods for export. Under the command to remove from the central to the capitalist class, however, China kickstart the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under the motto for the extermination of the Four Olds, many fine toy designers did not fully give play to their talents. The toy industry has stagnated in this period. In 70 years under the leadership of Premier Zhou Enlai to bring “things abroad, China needs to introduce, it was” electronic technologies for the production of high quality toys that the Chinese toy industry for a new domain in place . The Museum of Shanghai Toys is the first museum of its kind worldwide. My name is Marvin Chan and my collection comes from China. In 1989 I came across a toy shop in Malaysia, where I bought a few tin toys, with whom I played as a youth. Who would have thought that the few pieces that lead me to a new chapter of my life! My enthusiasm for toys grew from there. In 1993 I visited a famous toy museum in Japan. I was on the road that had maintained their cultural heritage impressed – has reinforced my feelings for Chinese toys. So the seed was planted MOST. Setting most brands of my first big step towards my dream Toys China. I’m really happy to, my dream and passion to share with you and most I hope you enjoy your stay here. The museum has an extensive collection of toys – toys are and will remain, central to the experience of childhood. In the past, most children had toys at home with common materials found around the house. In the old days are Greek and Roman children who are known for playing marbles, spinning tops, dolls made of clay. It was only in the nineteenth and twentieth century that toys were mass-produced. Arche Noah Noah and his ark has always been a favorite Bible story for children was, and toy versions of the ark were the 18th Century has been done. Were particularly popular during the Victorian era, when children were limited to playing with toys Bible Sunday. It is believed that the toy “Ark of Noah came from a small village called Oberammergau in Germany, an area that is famous for its wood crafts. The industry began as a cottage industry, with many families making certain animals, which are then assembled, and their chest. Later, as the industry expands, new techniques, we have established to accelerate the process. A ring as Seiffen (named after the place where it was invented) was aware of carved wood and shaped with a lathe. The ring is then cut into sections, each section is the basic shape of an animal. Each animal was then finished by hand, with tail and horns, which will be added if necessary. The ark itself is in two main forms, the first is a flat-bottomed ark, a flat piece of wood shaped raft with a hut on top of it, is the second boat Ark, a truncated depth has a large building on top. The animals are kept inside, with access by a hinged roof. Some tombs up to 400 animals from the nose to tail, can extend up to 30 meters. Like many toy chests can vary in quality. Some of the most popular are those with pickled golden straw, appears in the light, or decorated with inlays of different types of wood. Most of the tombs have painted a dove carrying an olive branch on the roof, a symbol of hope. Arks were very popular until 1920 and was exported from Germany to markets around the world. Their decline came when the export tax was imposed on them during the war. The rate has been the size and weight to many makers arks toys that were small and the light on. Toy horses Toys horses, in various forms and from many materials, there have been several thousand years. They are often very similar to their role models and the actual work performed, and were usually for boys. promote imitative play toy horses, children teach adult skills for the future, riding as a prerequisite for the male. Boys would ride to imitate their fathers in war or hunting, or driving. This will be replaced by James I of England to the young son wrote: “The honorable and commendable, most games that can be represented in the games on horseback.” The earliest forms of “mobile” was the hobby horse, since in the 15 Century photos appeared in Europe. In its simplest form, the horse hobby might be just a straight stick. However, the development of more complex projects, with carved heads, wheels attached to the bottom of the stick, and even cover the driver to hide the legs. They were generally toys for older children who could walk. The rocking horse was a later development, no references to toys even before the 17th Century found. The idea of a rocking horse from three main sources: the traditional cradle, pull the seat-tilt in the medieval knight games used for practice, and the horse on wheels developed. First Rocking Horse was very different in appearance from our usual notions of the toy. It consisted of two panels connected by flat-bottomed boat a seat in which a carved horse head and neck. A tail may have been appropriate, and sometimes two platforms were placed on the shoulder. The first surviving example is the horse you think that King Charles I of this design were easy as it avoids the difficulty of carving the horse’s legs, and its practicality, is to continue until the 19th century as a project more economical for horses. Sometimes the pages were arranged with the lower body and legs of horses or folk motifs, or a scene painted as if seen through the legs of the horse. This type of horse was common in Germany, while the British dug the preferred way full. When the toys donated to the popularity and progress was made in cabinet making, rocking horses started the legs are carved around. The head and body were often in pine and beech wood legs of the fittest. At first the horses were quite heavy in structure, but gradually became more elegant, stands on slender carved rockers with pointed ends. This reflects changes in the real world faster and easier than necessary for the artillery horses, and in the middle of the 17th Century, the Arab stallions were imported into England and hunting became a popular pastime. Rocking horse had also developed spirited horse in the race with his head down and legs outstretched. These horses were an effective training device like the young pilot was able to operate easily, if not properly turn. The basic structure of the rocking horse was made of wood, carved into several pieces together and then combined before being coated with a thin layer of plaster with the so-called Gesso. The painting of the rule was a gray donkey, although animal skins, often deer or calf, were used as cover. The rockers were often painted green to resemble grass, and horses were painted in order to monitor, although it was sometimes used glass eyes in his head. Saddles and bridles of leather had metal bits and stirrups, allowing the child to get used to sitting position. Manes and tails were often of real horsehair, which was made cheaper and more realistic carving. In the 19th Century, the growth of trade and transport to a greater demand for more horses brought to transport and distribute goods to and from the cities and stations. The increased wealth, more horses were kept for pleasure and, therefore, have developed a greater variety of breeds. Even in the horse world toy industry was a growing range of models such as the rapid expansion of trade in toys meant producers are constantly looking for new ideas. In London in 1877 there were eleven different manufacturers rocking horses, because they were standard products, baby equipment. Photographic studios often put children, rich and poor, abounded with illustrations of rocking horses and toys, such as accompanying nursery rhyme ride a cock horse, the original “horse” with the knee of an adult was.