Cuju refers to the ancient people kicking the ball with their feet. What is similar to today?

"Kick" means kick, kick and kick. "Bow" is originally a ball wrapped in leather and filled with rice bran. 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 recreational cuju game was popular among the people in China, and it became a method of military training from the Han Dynasty. Cuju organizations and artists appeared in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Qing Dynasty.

The form of cuju

Cuju has three forms: direct confrontation, indirect confrontation and beating in vain.

In direct competition, Cheng Ju, that is, the stadium, is surrounded by short walls. Both sides of the game have goals like small houses; There are 12 players on the court, and the two sides engage in direct physical contact confrontation, just like fighting. Those who kick and bow to the opponent's goal win.

In the indirect competition, there is a goal in the middle, and there is an "eye of the wind" more than two feet high in the middle of the goal, and both sides are on one side. If the ball doesn't land, the winner can let it go through the eye of the wind.

Playing white is mainly the game mode and skill, that is, the game "solution". Each scheme has a variety of kicking actions, such as turning, crawling, riding, twisting and so on. The ancients also named some movements, such as Zhuan Gan Kun, Yan Gui Nest, oblique flower arrangement, wind swinging lotus, Buddha crown bead, fish picking in dry land, pushing gold Buddha mill, shouldering the moon, turning a meteor and so on.