There is a traditional game known in ancient times as "jumping rope"

The game known in ancient times as "jumping a hundred ropes" was rope skipping.

Rope skipping is an athletic game in which a person or group of people make various jumps in a rope that swings in a circle. This game is called "through the rope" in the Tang Dynasty, "jumping rope" in the Song Dynasty, "jumping rope" in the Ming Dynasty, "jumping rope", "jumping rope", "jumping rope", "jumping rope", "jumping rope", "jumping rope", "jumping rope" and "jumping rope". "jumping horse rope", the Qing Dynasty called "rope fly", after the end of the Qing Dynasty called "rope skipping". As an ancient Han folk entertainment, since the Southern Song Dynasty, every festival are jumping rope, every household to compete.

Rope skipping has a long history. When Nuwa "is to lead the rope in the mud, lifting the person", the rope will accompany the human life. Ancient people used the rope to keep track of things, and also used it to tie up harvested crops, or to tie up cattle and horses, or to tie up game, and so on, and the rope became an important tool in human life. Therefore, rope skipping may have originated from primitive agricultural, hunting or military activities.

Introduction of Rope Skipping:

After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there are records of rope skipping activities in all generations. Tang - Duan Cheng style in the "Youyang Miscellany Chopper - realm of difference": "August 15, the image and through the rope as a play." It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty not only jumped through the rope game, but also named this game "through the rope", so that rope skipping activities began to have a specialized name.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, rope skipping activities developed into acrobatic theater, there is the name of "jumping rope". Song - Wu Zimu "dream sorghum record - Zaijian Prince Nanban hundred officials into the life of the feast" recorded: "the hundred plays to present drag, is on the pole, jumping rope, inverted, folding, get bowl, kicking rock bottles, somersaults, and so on."

Song - Meng Yuan Lao "Tokyo Dream Hua Records - June 6 Cui Fu Jun birthday 24th Shen Bao Guan Shen birthday": "Since the morning to present tugging a hundred plays, such as on the pole, jumping, jumping rope, sumo wrestling, drums and boards singing, cockfighting." From the Tang Dynasty "through the rope", to the Southern Song Dynasty "jump rope", the name of the rope skipping is more graphic and specific.

Liao, children jumping rope is also very popular. Xuanhua Liao tomb in the "young children jumping rope figure" found in a district of Zhang Kuangzheng tomb, painted in the back room above the wooden door semi-circular wall front. The content of the picture shows three children's rope skipping game, the left and right two children bowed legs, swinging a long rope, the middle of a bare shoulder children bend their knees and open their arms, jumping quickly, the composition is exquisite, is very valuable rope skipping artifacts.