Historically what country founded the sport of fencing?

Fencing is a traditional sport with a long history. As early as the ancient times, swords were used by human beings to fight with wild animals and hunt for food in order to survive. With the development of human history, the sword from the initial stone, bone system to bronze, iron, and finally to steel, and as a weapon of war, gradually on the stage of history. Fencing was very popular in ancient Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Arabia and other countries. In the 11th century B.C., fencing classes appeared in Ancient Greece and were taught by fencing masters. Reliefs about the ancient form of fencing can be seen on some historical buildings and monuments in Greece, Egypt and other countries. Fencing has been practiced for more than 3,000 years, with the earliest records of the sport dating back to ancient Egypt in 1190 BC. Several ancient civilizations, including China, Japan, Iran, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, trained specialists in fencing. Fencing developed as a sport in medieval Europe. Italy and Germany both claim to be the originators of fencing, but it was in 1570 that Henri De Saint-Didier of France formally established the rules for the sport, and it was only after that that fencing developed rapidly in a standardized form.

Fencing is one of the few sports to have been included in every Olympic Games since the beginning of the modern Olympics in Athens in 1896. The International Fencing Association was founded in 1913, and women's fencing was introduced to the Olympics in 1924 and became an official sport of the Asian Games at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran.

In medieval Europe, fencing was listed as one of the seven noble sports for knights, along with horseback riding, swimming, hunting, chess, poetry, and spear throwing. In order to study and promote the development of fencing technology, European countries have set up fencing guilds (fencing associations and schools).

Spain is considered to be the cradle of modern fencing, and the first fencing book was compiled by two Spanish coaches. The sport of fencing really came into full swing during the reigns of Henri III and Henri IV of France, when in 1776, the famous French fencing master, La Bourbassière, invented the mask. In 1776, the famous French fencing master, Mr. La Boissiere, invented the mask, which made fencing further embark on the road of elegance. People wearing masks, gloves and fencing suits can safely engage in a series of offensive and defensive exchanges. The introduction of the mask was a milestone in the development of fencing. France became the center of fencing development in Europe at the time.

Dueling was prevalent in Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In this situation, in order to meet the people's hobby of fencing and the need, but not to harm the life, a shorter and four-pronged sword, the tip of the sword with a strip of leather wrapped with a new sword was designed, by the people's general popularity, and has been widely developed, which is now the prototype of the foil. Since then, in the European martial arts halls, fencing halls and professional schools, the fencing style of foil fencing is gradually formed and becoming more and more perfect.

From 1885, gentlemen and aristocrats who were keen on dueling began practicing in martial arts halls with three-pronged swords, with no restriction on the part of the opponent, and this is the fencing style that continues to this day.

The Hungarians reformed the curved short sword used by Persians, Arabs and Turks in the East for early cavalry at the end of the 18th century by assembling a crescent-shaped handguard on the hilt to protect the fingers during fencing. Later, the Italian fencing master Giuseppe Lardelli further improved it. Lada Yeli will further improve it, so that it can be used in fencing and dueling, and according to the characteristics of the cavalry combat, the effective part of the provisions for the belt above, which became the predecessor of the modern saber. By now, people were free to choose between foils, rapiers and sabers when engaging in fencing.

In the early 19th century, under the initiative of French fencing authority Lafleur, the weight of the three different types of swords, foil, epee, was further reduced, and at the same time, some technical principles and tactical significance of the in-depth study, and in a number of European countries often carry out competition activities. Fencing has gradually become an international sport and a member of the Olympic family.

Fencing originated in medieval Europe, and in the 14th century a dazzling class of knights appeared in Spain, France, and Italy, who won wide acclaim for their mastery of the sword. Since then, the nobles of various countries have followed suit, and for a time it became the fashion of the high society, so much so that it developed to the point that the nobles resolved disputes among themselves, often drawing their swords and determining life and death with one sword.

From 1588 to 1601, France was plagued by dueling, and in 20 years there were 8,000 nobles and gentlemen killed in dueling in Paris. At the drop of a hat, duels were fought to the death. "Let's go to the countryside" became the most familiar language of challenge. The huge casualties in the upper class led to alarm and fear of the royal family and the aristocracy, and Richelieu, the chancellor of King Louis XIII of France, issued a ban on dueling, but even the execution of a duke in 1627 still failed to quell the dueling fever. In order to satisfy people's passion for dueling without hurting them, a lightweight sword with a four-pronged blade was designed.

Before and after 1643, King Louis XIV of France made uniform regulations on the fencing costumes and equipment in France at that time, and made the six oldest qualified fencers in Paris hereditary nobles, which opened the precedent of fencing school in France, fencing as a sports and athletic events took shape.

To the late 19th century, fencing became a competitive sport, 1882 France established the world's first fencing association, 1893 American Amateur Fencing Association was established. 1896 the first Olympic Games on the fencing program, and is the only project to allow professional competitors to participate. The competition takes place on a fencing mat that is about 2 meters wide and 14 meters long, with a 2-meter extension at each end, on which are drawn the center line, the start line, the warning line and the end line, and the fencer can only move forward or backward, and cannot move to the left or right. Fencers must wear metal undershirts and masks that cover the effective parts. When the effective parts are stabbed, the electric referee will automatically show a red or green light, and a white light when the ineffective parts are stabbed.

Fencing is one of the sports. Athletes wearing fencing clothing and protective gear, in the fencing field with a sword in one hand to stab each other, was first hit the effective part of the body of the party, for being hit by a sword. The fencing team will use a variety of offensive and defensive techniques, and will use various tactics to win within the scope of the rules.

The events are foil, sabre and sabre for men and foil, sabre and sabre for women. There are individual and team competitions. The team competition is an inter-team encounter of three people per team. Individual competition is a round-robin tournament, followed by a single-elimination tournament based on the ranking of the group's performance index. In round robin, the first person to hit 5 swords within 4 minutes will win. The team competition will be based on the results of the individual competition, and will proceed directly to the single-elimination tournament.