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There is a traditional game

There is a traditional game known as jumping rope.

2023 Alipay Ant Manor October 28, a topic is a traditional game in ancient times known as jumping hundred rope, the answer is exactly jumping rope. It is a person or a crowd in a ring swing in the rope to do a variety of jumping movements of sports games, this game Tang Dynasty called "through the rope", Song called "jump rope", Ming called "jumping hundred rope".

This game is a sport game in which the Tang Dynasty called "through the rope", the Song Dynasty called "jumping rope", and the Ming Dynasty called "jumping hundred rope", "jumping white rope" and "jumping horse rope".

After the Qing Dynasty, this sport is called rope skipping. As an ancient Han folk recreational activities, since the Southern Song Dynasty, every festival are jumping rope, families have to compete. During the Liao Dynasty, children's rope skipping was also very popular. Xuanhua Liao tombs in the "young children jumping rope picture" found in the first district of Zhang Kuangzheng tomb, the picture content is to show the three children jumping rope game.

Origin and history of rope skipping:

Rope skipping has a long history, and when Nuwa "drew the rope in the mud and lifted it up as a human being", the rope accompanied human beings in their lives. Ancient people used the rope to keep track of things, and also used it to tie up the harvested crops, or to tie up cattle and horses, or to tie up prey, etc. The rope has become an important tool in human life. Therefore, rope skipping may have originated from primitive agricultural, hunting or military activities.

The earliest historical material of rope skipping is the picture of rope skipping on the portrait stone in Han Dynasty, which proves that there were rope skipping activities in Han Dynasty at the latest. Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, the Security Department "Jingchu chronicles" in the "fly a hundred rope" records: on the sixteenth day of the first month, the group of children to the length of ten feet, the two children on the lead, fly swinging uncertainly, if a hundred rope. Groups of children by its movement when the wheel jump, to be able to pass the winner. Here the fly hundred rope, it is the later rope skipping game.