What was cuju sport like during the Tang Dynasty?

Cuju sport is also an important activity of Qingming Festival in Tang Dynasty. Cuju originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of Qi's capital Linzi. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the most prosperous, often appearing "ball all day long," "the ball does not leave the foot, the foot does not leave the ball, the Chinese court to see, ten thousand people look up to" the scene.

Du Fu "Qingming" poem also said: ten years of Cuju will be far away, thousands of miles of the same custom.

Du Fu's poem also illustrates the popularity of cuju. In the Tang Dynasty, the whole country played soccer. From the emperor, princes and nobles, down to the common people, pawns and footmen all love to play cuju. For example, wei yingwu's "cold food after the north building for" a poem wrote: garden over the new festival, the wind and flowers chaotic high cabinet.　　I heard the sound of drums beating in the distance, cuju military music.

Writing about the cold food festival, the soldiers accompanied by the sound of drums and music, playing cuju in the barracks, bursts of joyful sounds by the spring wind is far away from the blowing over.