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Skipping board is a traditional comprehensive women's sports of the Korean ethnic group, circulating in the Korean-inhabited areas of Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning and other provinces, mostly held on the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Along with the rhythmic step jumping, wearing colorful skirts of the Korean girls, beautifully in the air to perform a variety of actions such as spinning, flipping and so on. This is the traditional sports and recreational activities favored by Korean women living along the Songhua River.

[edit]Traceability

The springboard has a long history. There is a Korean folk saying: "If you don't skip when you are a girl, you will have a hard time giving birth when you get married". Therefore, springboarding is highly valued and loved.

On the origin of the Korean springboard, there is a romantic legend: Legend has it that in ancient times, Korean women were bound by feudal ethics and morals, all day long door in their own homes in the yard, not allowed to go out of the gate, in order to look at the world outside the yard, they had to set up a springboard at the base of the yard wall to jump in the air, peeping outside the yard of the scenery. There is also a saying that, in ancient times, there are two men innocent prisoners, their respective wives in order to see their husbands in prison within the high walls, they came up with the use of springboards will be thrown into the air to see their husbands. This legend expresses people's good wishes against feudalism and for freedom.

[edit]Methods

The springboard is similar to a see-saw, with a wooden frame supporting the center of a long wooden board, two people stood on both ends of the board, each other take turns jumping up and down, borrowing a party jumped up after the fall of gravity, the other party will be bouncing up to leap into the air. There are two methods of competition: the "draw line" and the "show".

"Drawing the line" is placed on each end of the seesaw a line ball, pull out the line tied to the ankles of the contestants, in the stipulated time, the length of the line drawn by the contestants when bouncing, measuring the height of the height of their bouncing to determine the winner.

The "performance" includes optional and required maneuvers, which are scored according to the difficulty and posture of the competitor's jumping maneuvers. The prescribed program is to connect the prescribed several kinds of actions to perform; optional items are holding fans, garlands, ribbons and other things to perform, you can constantly make splits, bow body, drilling ring, jumping rope and other very beautiful modeling action.

[Edit paragraph]Characteristics of the sport

As a national traditional sport, you can enjoy the dancing of the Korean women on the springboard on the major festivals and the games in the agricultural leisure period in the Korean settlement. The springboard equipment mainly consists of two parts: the wooden board and the board mat. Plank selection of tough and elastic wood processing production, the length of 5 ~ 5.5 meters, width of 30 ~ 40 cm, thickness of 5 ~ 6 cm; plate pad height of about 30 cm, pad in the middle of the springboard, weighted material fixed. Springboard competitions or performances, two groups stand on both ends of the board, alternately stirrups, staggered jumps to jump high, landing on the self-bouncing force to make the body airborne, and the more vertical and higher. The main movements are straight jump, leg bending jump, scissors jump, rotary jump, body bending jump, and so on. The main equipment are fans, garlands, ribbons, tambourines and so on. With the continuous development of the springboard program, there are more gymnastic movements were introduced, so that the springboard program is more difficult, the performance is more exciting, and it has become a more ornamental, entertaining and fitness sports.

[Editor's note]Name of Chinese Cultural Heritage: Korean Springboard and Swing

The whole-body sports game featuring stomping and jumping, which was especially loved by Korean women, was later developed into one of the main competitions of the Korean Games.

The springboard has a significant effect on enhancing the bouncing power of the legs, exercising the ability to control the body in the air and improving the stability of the vestibular function, as well as beautifying the body.

The Korean people are a sports-loving nation, and springboard and swinging are the favorite folk traditional sports of Korean women, which have a wide mass.

As a kind of sports and competitive games, springboard is popular in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Jilin Province and other Korean-inhabited places in the country, and the springboard activities are usually held in the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival and other festive days.

The skipping boards are generally nearly 6 meters long, 40 centimeters wide and about 5 centimeters thick, and are mostly made of ashwagandha boards, which are hard and very flexible. There is a pivot point in the middle of the springboard, jumping two people stood at each end, take turns jumping, using the springboard's rebound force to bounce themselves and each other into the air. This repeated together and down, participants struggled to leap upward, constantly increasing the height of the air and make a variety of fancy moves. Springboard pay attention to a variety of skills and air posture, there are up in the air, tumbling down the action, there are jumping body curved body, legs spread, landing hanging action, there is the chest, arms, legs spread, landing together posture. The springboard is performed by the coordination and cooperation of two people. Sometimes while jumping, one sings and one harmonizes.

The springboard competition is higher than the draw line and than the performance skills of two kinds. Than draw a line is more than the total length of the line pulled out to draw the length of the line to determine the winner, the performance of props with iron circles, garlands and so on. This kind of competition is mainly than who's action is most in line with the standard, who's action is difficult, who's action is beautiful posture. In recent years in the past on the basis of the height of the competition has increased the competition skills to see who in the moment of the air to make the difficult movements and beautiful posture. So to participate in springboard activities not only need courage, but also need wisdom and skills. Watching the springboard activities will be pleasing to the eye, and the clap of the hands.

Skipping is a healthy traditional sport, which has always been loved by the Korean people, and there is even a saying that "if a girl doesn't skip, it will be difficult for her to give birth in the future".

Swinging is one of the favorite activities of Korean women, with a long history, popular in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and other Korean-inhabited rural areas.

Swinging activities are characterized by high, floating, leisurely, skillful, soft, beautiful and joyful. Swing rope is generally tied to the sturdy branches of tall trees, in front of the swing hanging over the sky with a colorful belt or bell, swinging swing board to touch the sign in order to win the cheers and praise. Often, one person swings, and all eyes are on them, and the sidelines are filled with applause. Colorful dress like the wings of the colorful phoenix, driven by a wisp of wind, far away, the sky blue, green grass, makeup and light Korean girls like flying colorful butterflies, fluttering in the sky to and fro, constituting a flow of magnificent paintings.

Large-scale swinging competition is more fascinating, more in the agricultural period and the Dragon Boat Festival and other festivals, when the Korean women dressed in festive attire to participate in the competition, there are two methods of competition, one is more than the height of swinging, the other is more than the number of times than kicking the bell that is more than the endurance. Often seen in the competition hanging high in the air with a leather drum, swinging girls in the onlookers' shouts of support, swinging high in the air with their feet to kick the drum, who kicked the highest number of times, who will become the champion of the competition.

Swinging is now officially included in the National Games competition, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture swinging stunt has become a minority traditional sports garden a blooming oddball.