The Saga Seed Saga

Saga Seeds symbolise “mutual love” in Chinese and the seeds can also be used as a form of apology or a gift to our loved ones as a way to express our longing for them.

Saga Seeds are small and bright red in colour.  This signifies love and deep passion for someone. The seeds can be used to make jewellery or rosaries.  Owing to their slightly heart-shaped shape, they are commonly used for decorating cards or given as  presents.

Nowadays, Saga Seeds are hardly seen or played by the “strawberry generation”.  In today’s materialistic world, technology is very developed.  So children prefer playing with their mechanical devices. Even though the games in these hand held devices are much more animated and fun, traditional games are also fun.

The Guides in our Convent are learning to play this game and it is now popular with our Guides.  This game can be played individually or in Patrols.

During our June 2012 International Camp, we had an Inter-Patrol Saga Seed Competition. First, we competed in the collection of the seeds. The Patrol which picked the most saga seeds would win this round.  Some enterprising Guides even tricked Venture Scouts into expanding their own collection.

The whole Company was then taught by our Captain how to play the traditional Saga Seed games.  We first competed within the Patrol at an individual level.  Then Patrols fought Patrols.  The game got pretty noisy and saga seeds flew from steps to drain and from floor to sky …