Why did the ancients call magic

Folk is called "juggling", it is China's most traditional "hundred theater "One of the forms of entertainment. As early as in the Western Zhou Dynasty, magic performances appeared, and by the Han Dynasty had become quite mature. The "next door theater" is a nickname for the art of ventriloquism.

China is one of the birthplaces of magic. In 500 B.C., our ancestors wrote about the "chain of rings". Chinese magic solution" are called "Chinese ring". Magic is also one of the earliest fields in China's foreign cultural exchange activities. The Records of the Grand Historian recorded that in 108 B.C., the king of Anshi "offered to Han with the eggs of a big bird and a good dazzler in Lixuan" to perform magic in China.

Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" from the Eastern Han Dynasty also records that magicians from the Western Regions "swallowed knives and spit out fire" and "scratched the ground into a river" and other magic programs.