Cuju is what modern sport

Cuju is similar to modern soccer.

Cuju, also known as "step on the bow", "cu ball", "cu round", "build a ball", "Kick round" and so on, "cu" has the meaning of foot cu, step, kick, "jiu" earliest Department of outer leather, solid rice bran inside the ball. Therefore, "cuju" is the ancient people to foot cu, step, kicking leather ball activities, similar to today's soccer.

According to historical records, as early as in the Warring States period of Chinese folk popular recreational Cuju game, and from the Han Dynasty has become 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 an ancient Chinese long-lasting, influential a sports wonders.

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Ming and Qing Dynasty Cuju:

Ming Dynasty, Cuju is still widely popular. In the "Cuju atlas" recorded "Jian color name" has 24 kinds (some people call "branded commodity bow"), in the "Cuju spectrum" recorded "Jian color name" has 40 kinds. Ming Dynasty handicrafts, commercial prosperity, but also brought the prosperous development of folk associations, jargon also popular. Cuju at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, "Cuju atlas" in the round society Jin language has 45, to the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in the "Cuju spectrum" in the round society Jin language development to 130.

By the Qing Dynasty, there were very few records of soccer activities in the historical books. The Manchu people had combined it with ice skating, the emergence of the "ice knit bow" form of the sport. The early Qing Dynasty every winter in the Tai Liquid Pond (now the North Sea) held ice play ceremony, "XiLuXing reward, to simple martial arts and repair national custom".

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the introduction of modern Western soccer, China's traditional cuju activities were basically replaced by modern European soccer, and shuttlecock as "cuju's legacy" (Song Gao Cheng, "Things Jiyuan"), and to inherit and develop.