What are all the interesting folk sports of the Korean nation?

Swinging is a folk game played during the early Korean festivals. Later, it evolved into a kind of traditional folk sports as it became more popular. Today, among the Koreans, swinging is one of the women's favorite sports activities and an essential part of celebrating festivals and sports events.

As early as the 13th century, in the Goryeo history "Bird Chung-hyeon", there was a record that "Chung-hyeon set up a swing play in Bajeong-dong Palace at the end of the day, and feasted for three days for civil and military officers of four grades and above". In the 15th century, there was a competition in which golden bells were attached to the swings and the height of the swing was measured to determine the winner, and in the 18th century, Shin Kwang-soo, a Joseon poet, delicately depicted a beautiful image of a Joseon woman swinging on a swing: "Green ramie skirts and white ramie dresses are worn on the day of Duanwoo Festival. The rope of the swing in the courtyard of the Tonghua flower is pushed into the air and flies close to the ground." Historically, wherever there was a Korean settlement, there were swinging activities, and swinging was gradually developed as the Koreans settled in various places.

Early Korean swinging set up, its swing rope is often tied to the hillside, the river bank of the tree, every festival, the Korean girls in groups, wearing brightly colored national costume, take turns to compete. With the development, the emergence of a stand tied rope swing, that is, two wooden poles according to the trapezoidal vertical, about 10 to 12 meters high, between the two columns across a log, known as the balance. The thickness of the palm of the two ropes tied to the balance, the bottom of the rope to put the board. Swing frame in front of a certain distance from the erection of two bamboo poles, a height of 5 meters, the two poles end of a long rope, the rope is tied to the center of a string of bells file, known as the bell rod. This setting of the swing competition has swung high and kicking bell two categories, which is divided into single swing, double swing two kinds.

Swinging high swing, refers to the swinging height to determine the winner. The method of counting the height is to tie a height line on the pole, and the one who touches the line more than once within the stipulated time is the winner.

Kick bell swing, is the bell on the pole fixed at a certain height, to swinging when the number of times the bell to determine the winner.

With the development and popularization of this activity, the rules of swinging have been improved, and the characteristics of the competition are more inclined to the competition of strength and technology, and it is more and more favored by the Joseon people and even by other nationalities. 1986, swinging was listed as an official competition of the national minorities, and the competition was held for the first time in the Third National Minority Games.

Skipping

Skipping is a traditional activity favored by Korean women. There is a folk legend about the origin of this form of activity. In ancient times, according to the custom, Korean women were not allowed to go out of the house, so they were bored after a long day. So they invented a game called springboard, which was called springboard game, but in fact, it was to leap in the air to see the scenery outside the wall. Over time, the situation evolved into a traditional sporting activity.

In the old days, the springboard activity of the Korean people was often held in the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it became the entertainment for the women during the festivals. Now, this activity has become a very distinctive ethnic traditional sports program of the Koreans.

The springboard is generally 5.5 meters long, 35-40 centimeters wide and 5-6 centimeters thick. Skipping board in the center of the following put a "board mat", made of straw bundles or straw bags loaded on the height of 30 centimeters, a person sitting in the center of the board with the weight of the body pressure.

Skipping competition is generally a group of two people, each standing at one end of the springboard, take turns jumping up into the air, down when the pedal, the other side of the spring into the air, up and down, the more vertical and higher. In the air can make a variety of actions, such as straight jump, bent leg jump, scissors jump, rotary jump, flip jump and so on.

The springboard competition is divided into "draw" and "show" two kinds. "Drawing the line" is at each end of the springboard a line of dough, draw the line tied to the ankle of the competitor, in the prescribed time, to the length of the line drawn by the competitor when bouncing, measured by the height of its bouncing to determine the winner; and the "show" includes self-selected actions and The "performance" includes two kinds of optional actions and prescribed actions, which are mainly scored according to the difficulty and posture of the contestants' jumping actions. Optional action can hold a fan, garlands, etc., the judge according to the difficulty of the action, the completion of the quality and the degree of beautiful posture scoring. Referees are generally four people, delete the highest and lowest score, take the average score between them.

Walking on top of a pot

Korean women are known for their hard work, and walking on top of a pot is a very important custom of Korean women. They started to learn to walk on top of the pot from their childhood, and in the long-term exercise, they can make it to walk on top of the pot without hand support, walk naturally and easily, and have a generous rhythm. Later, this custom gradually evolved into a very distinctive Korean traditional sports - "top jar walking".

In today's Korean settlements, Korean women wear colorful dresses and walk in competitions during festivals. The program is similar to the race walk, except that a water can is held on the head during the race walk. The top tank walk is divided into 80 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters relay walk and obstacle walk and other different forms. Athletic track can be used to set up the starting point and finish line. Before the start of the race, participants should be placed in the water cans on the starting line to stand position, the commander "ready" sound fell, the water cans placed on top of the head, the commander "go" word shouted, the participants in the race that is in accordance with the provisions of the route to move forward quickly. Among them, in the commander of the game before the order is issued shall not grab line, grab line twice that is according to the foul theory and disqualification of the game. In the process of walking in the competition, water from the tank overflow as well as water tanks fall down, etc. is also to foul the theory. In the top tank walking competition, you can also through a variety of different movements and formations to perform.

The program trains the body's balance and builds endurance in the lower back and lower extremities of the participants. Because this situation is less restricted by the conditions of the site, so it is easy to carry out.

Tielianji

The Korean people have a relatively rich traditional martial arts activities, and the history of more than 500 years. Among the martial arts routines of Korean martial arts activities, equipment routines are a very important element, and "Tielianji" is one of the famous equipment.

Tie Lian Ji, similar to the Han region's martial arts activities in the big tip. Its shape is in a shoulder-high stick end with a ring, the ring is connected to three sets of short joints juxtaposed into a radial shape, more than a foot long. Practitioners hold the iron Lianji method is to hold the stick with both hands, once it will dance up, the style of courage, control range. Dance Iron Lianji have smashing, swinging, sweeping, wrapping, cover, frame, frame and other techniques, sometimes with a variety of body shape, it is exceptionally wonderful.