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Cuju became a sport in the Song Dynasty in China, so when did it originate?

We have seen the new version of Princess Zhu Huan, in which there is a "balloon flying" competition held by the swallow, which is what we saw as cuju. It turned out that it became a sport in the Song Dynasty, and most of the TV dramas we watched were performed in the Qing Dynasty, and few of them were devoted to cuju, so we knew very little about cuju.

Cuju really began in the Warring States period. "Cuju" means kicking, kicking and kicking. "Cuju" was originally about leather-wrapped meatballs with rice bran inside. Therefore, "Cuju" refers to the activities that the ancients kicked, kicked and kicked with their feet, similar to today's football.

According to historical records, as early as the Warring States period, the entertainment cuju game was popular among the Han people and became a military training method from the Han Dynasty. Cuju organizations and artists appeared in the Song Dynasty, and ice sports became popular in the Qing Dynasty. An activity that the Qing emperor liked to watch was called ice play.

At that time, the traditional culture of China took Confucianism as the core, emphasizing "harmony" and "the mean", while the social and cultural psychology emphasized "the rule of culture" and neglected "martial arts" in most cases. People admire the gentleness of a modest gentleman, and it is impolite for scholars to compete with others. Therefore, under this social and cultural background, Cuju gradually evolved from an antagonistic competition to a performance competition.

Moreover, due to the rise of Cuju, professional books about this sport appeared in Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, someone wrote Twenty-five Cuju Articles, which is the earliest professional sports book in China and the first professional sports book in the world. Let us know more about cuju.