How to play volleyball, the rules of the game?

The rules of volleyball are as follows:

1. Serve: The team that gets the right to serve must first rotate , and the No.1 player will hit the ball within 3 seconds after the referee's whistle. If the ball touches a player on the court of the serving team, a marking pole, or other obstacles in the middle of the serve, the ball falls outside the opponent's boundary or the ball does not pass through the net, it is a service error and the right to serve is lost. The serving player serves consecutively until the team has made an error.

2. Touching the ball: Players may touch the ball with any part of their body, but they may not stay on the ball. If there are cases of fishing, holding, pushing or throwing the ball, it will be regarded as holding the ball. Each team can touch the ball up to 3 times (except for blocking), if a player touches the ball more than 1 time in a row (except for blocking), it will be called as hitting. If two players of the same team touch the ball at the same time, it is considered as two touches. However, both players are allowed to hit the ball 3 more times after touching the ball at the net at the same time.　

3. Offensive Hitting: Hitting the ball directly to the opponent's court area is considered offensive hitting. Front row players may hit the ball offensively at any height in the court area. Back row players in the front area in front of the attacking line can only hit the ball offensively with the whole ball not higher than the edge of the net, but they can hit the ball at any height if they jump after the attacking line.　

4. Over the net: Players may not hit the ball over the net, but if the point of the ball is in the court area and the ball leaves the hand and the hand follows the ball over the net, no over-the-net foul will be awarded. Before the opponent hits the ball, the blocker's hand touches the ball over the opponent's court area, the blocker is judged to have committed a foul over the net. When the opponent hits the ball, it is permitted to block the net in the opponent's court area.

5. Crossing the center line: Any part of the player's body that crosses the center line and touches the ground of the opponent's court is judged to be a foul over the center line. However, a foul is not called when one or both feet step over the center line and the other part steps on or over the center line. A player may reach under the net to hit a ball, but may not obstruct an opponent.

6. Blocking: Only front row players are allowed to block individually or collectively. In a block, the ball may touch the hands, head or any part of the body above the waist of one or several blockers in a row, which counts as a block. The team is allowed to hit the ball 3 more times after a block. If the ball falls out of bounds after being touched by the blocker, it is considered as touching the ball out of bounds, and an error is ruled.

Extended information:

The following are fouls after a service hit:

(1) The ball touches a member of the team that serves it, or fails to pass through the vertical plane of the net.　　

(2) The ball touches the net and falls outside the opponent's court area, out of bounds.　　

(3) The ball passes over the individual or collective serving cover (an individual or collective serving cover foul is committed when a player or 2 or more players stand intensively or wave their arms and jump or move to cover the receiving player during a serve and the ball sent out passes over him or them).　

Refereeing of Fouls on the Serve

(1) Fouls on the serve shall be judged by the first referee, and fouls after the serve has been struck shall be judged by the first referee and the linesman.　　

(2) If a foul on the serve occurs at the same time as an error in the opponent's position, the error in position shall be judged to have occurred later, and a foul after the serve has been struck shall be judged to have occurred at the same time as an error in the opponent's position, the error in position shall be judged to have occurred earlier.　

(3) The first referee shall whistle for a new serve in the following cases:

1) The first referee has not yet whistled, and the player who served the ball has already served the ball.　

② In special circumstances (e.g., injury to a player, ball rolled into the court, etc.).　

③The second referee, after the first referee has whistled to allow the ball to be served, whistles to interrupt the game to allow a team to request a time-out or a substitution, and the first referee does not allow the request to interrupt the game.　　

(4) The first referee may sound the whistle when the player who is to serve the ball has entered the serving area and is ready with the ball, and the receiving team has taken up its position. After the whistle is blown, the first referee counts silently for 8 s.

(5) There is no positional error between the serving player and the other two players in the back row of the court.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Volleyball