Cuju is a custom of what holiday

Cuju is a custom of the Qingming Festival. Therefore, cuju is to refer to the ancient people to foot cu, step, kick leather ball activities, similar to today's soccer. According to historical records, as early as in the Warring States period Chinese folk popular recreational cuju game.

And from the Han Dynasty and became a military practice method, the Song Dynasty and the emergence of cuju organization and cuju artists, the Qing Dynasty began to popular ice knit bow. Therefore, it can be said that cuju is a long-lasting, influential ancient Chinese sports wonders. 2006 May 20, cuju has been approved as an intangible cultural heritage, included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Customs of Qingming

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese people started around the Zhou Dynasty, which is more than 2,500 years old. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has an extremely rich connotation, and different customs have been developed in various places, while sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, trekking is the basic theme.

The name of the Qingming Festival is related to the characteristics of the weather at this time, according to the Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi - Tianwenxun", "15 days after the equinox, Doo refers to the B, then the wind of the Qingming to"; "Qingming wind" that is, the wind of the refreshingly clear. The "Hundred Questions on the Time of the Year" said, "Everything grows at this time, all clean and clear, so it is called Qingming."

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Cuju