The origin of Japanese sumo wrestling

A more accurate written record of Japanese sumo is the Annals of Japan compiled at the beginning of the 8th century, in which the 35th emperor (64 1-645) called court guards to hold a sumo contest in order to receive the envoys of ancient Korea's Baekje country. Now it has become Japan's national skill, Japan's international fighting skill and sport. As a professional competitive event, it is called sumo in Japan.

Sumo, regarded as Japan's "national skill", is a traditional sport that Japanese people especially like. In the competition, two big fat people were almost naked and twisted together on a round "earth watch" with a diameter of 4.55 meters. The collision of giants is very dramatic.

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Sumo is held six times a year, in January, March, May, July, September and November, and it has become one of the favorite sports of the masses. Sumo was originally a religious ceremony of Japanese Shintoism. People hold a contest of God of Harvest in temples, hoping to bring a good harvest. In Nara and Heian periods, sumo was just an ornamental sport suitable for court nobles.

By the time of Kamakura in the Warring States Period, sumo wrestling had become a part of samurai training. At the end of 17, for-profit professional sumo appeared, and by 18, professional sumo rose, and the competition system was basically the same as it is now. Professional sumo wrestlers's name is Lux. Lux has a hierarchy. The highest rank of Hercules is "Yokozuna".

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