What were the multi-person competitive sports activities in ancient China?

In ancient China, there were many competitive sports activities, such as Cuju, martial arts and pounding pills, which rose in the Song Dynasty. These ancient sports activities enriched the ancient culture and added more fun to the lives of the ancients. Of course, there are wrestling, archery and so on, which the ancients liked very much. These recreational sports activities can not only enrich their daily life, but also exercise the physical quality of the ancients. So we can see that ancient people were also very keen on sports.

1. Cuju was a very popular sports activity in the Song Dynasty. Gao Qiu, the captain of the Water Margin, was valued by the princes of the dynasty because he knew cuju, and later he had a high position. There were too few recreational sports in ancient times, so Cuju attracted many people's love when it appeared in the Song Dynasty. Cuju is actually very physical exercise, which will have a good exercise for people's physical quality, which is why people in the Song Dynasty like Cuju. Cuju is especially suitable for crowded teams, and it is lively. For example, Song Huizong likes Cuju very much, so Cuju was a sport that the emperor personally carried fire in the Song Dynasty, the predecessor of modern football.

2. pass the parcel was a very popular sports activity in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Billiards is the embryonic form of modern golf, which means hitting the ball. In ancient times, the ball was hit into the hole with a wooden stick with its own precise angle. This is called pill pounding. People in the Ming and Qing Dynasties liked this sport very much. Although it rose in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it did not flourish at that time. It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that this sport was gradually accepted by people, especially children.

In ancient times, people had few recreational and exercise activities, such as throwing pots, archery, cuju and pounding pills, which made people play when they were bored, so people at that time attached great importance to entertainment because it could bring people happiness and release physical and mental stress during exercise.