This is a folk game of the PRC, in which two or several persons compete to push the opponents out of a certain area by using their knees.
The player holds one of his knees or thighs with one hand and the rest of the foot with the other, and hits the opponent’s bent knee only with his bent knee down from top to bottom or from bottom to top. He must not push the opponent with his body or grasp him by the hand.
If the opponent falls down or loses the grasp of his knee, the player wins the game.
In a team game, in which players compete one by one, if one player loses the game, another player comes out and the game goes on in this way until the final player is decided, and his team is decided to have won.
When several players, divided into two teams, compete with one another simultaneously, the player, who has fallen down or lost the grip of his knee, is decided to be “dead,” and cannot play the game any longer.
No matter how skillful and talented he may be in the game, any player cannot match two or more players if they fling themselves upon him together.
As the way of playing it is simple and as it can be played at any time and in any place, the game has been played by the Chongroan people, especially young children, to train their physical strength and cultivate collectivist spirit from olden times.
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