I don't know if native speakers of English can get what I am talking about when I say shuttlecock.  Just like the word dumpling. It can be quite different food in quite different shape with quite different taste. So I would rather say jiaozi when I talked to native speakers when I referred to what we usually eat on New Year’s Eve.

By shuttlecock, here I mean something made of a few chicken features attached to a rubber pedestal. To add to its weight, some round slices of plastics or iron are used to add to the shuttlecock's weight so that it fly longer distance when knocked with foot.

We play shuttlecock in different ways. We can stand in a circle and pass the shuttlecock among us by kicking it. Usually 5 to 10 people can play in one circle. But it is more fun and challenging if there are only two people, which is my favorite. We can also draw a court, set up a net and play shuttlecock in the way similar to volleyball. The team fail to land the shuttlecock on the opposite side loses points. 

I fell in love with the sport last winter, before which I could hardly hit a flying shuttle cock with my feet. I played it the whole winter and I was off for only three days for the sake of the Spring Festival. You call me crazy? But I wasn't alone, LOL.

Now I am almost the best player of shuttlecock in my school and I was chosen to play in the school team for a match between schools. We beat all teams but one, which started to play shuttlecock 5 years ago.

Ok, I am going to a nearby square to play shuttlecock with my wife and son. Now! Because my wife is nagging me. LOL

Oh! Yes. Bye bye!