What are the origins of the sport of cuju? Is it related to modern soccer or not?

When it comes to soccer, this is perhaps the most Chinese people lost a sport, because the Chinese men's soccer team can always bring us one after another Waterloo, but I believe that many people have heard of the sport of cuju, this sport originated in China, so what is the origin of it, and today's soccer in the end what is the relationship?

Origin and development of cuju

Football cuju, also known as "cu jiu", "building a ball", "kicking the ball! "and so on, is the meaning of foot, step and kick, cuju is the earliest ball wrapped in skin, inside the rice bran. So the so-called cuju, is the ancient people with feet to play soccer, kicking feet, just like today's soccer. According to historical records, as early as the Warring States period, Chinese folk popular recreational Cuju game, since the Han Dynasty there has been a military practice method, Cuju organization and Cuju artists also appeared in the Song Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty popular ice Cuju.

The "bow" used for cuju can be traced back to the stone ball. About 100,000 years ago, stone balls were first found in the Dingcun culture site, and 40,000 years ago, a large number of Xujiayao culture site found. In the late primitive society, kicking stone balls and hollowed-out pottery balls appeared as the main hunting tools.

To the Qing Dynasty, there were almost no records of soccer activities in history books. The Manchus used to combine it with ice skating to form a form of sport known as "bending and skating". In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the ice play ceremony was held every winter at the Tai Liquid Pond (now the North Sea), "rewarding the laborers and cultivating the martial arts". Every other year in October of the lunar calendar, "as a rule, each selected two hundred good ice walkers, prepared ice skates, head, bow and arrow, ball frame.

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the introduction of modern Western soccer, the traditional Chinese sport of cuju was basically replaced by modern European soccer, and shuttlecock, as a "relic of cuju" (Song Gao Cheng, "The Chronicle of Things"), was inherited and developed)

Not related to modern soccer

Not related to modern soccer

The game of shuttlecock is a sport that is practiced in China, but it is also practiced in China.

In ancient China, cuju was first played by the aristocracy, at least in the early days of its popularity, and most of the players were women, either men at home, on campaigns, in official posts, or in empty official residences and cognacs, who passed the time with this kind of "fun", socializing, etc. These were the women who played cuju, and the women who played cuju were the ones who played it. These backgrounds, for example, determine that cuju is a skillful recreational activity, unlike modern soccer, which is full of confrontation and team spirit.

The birth of modern soccer

Since the mid-to-late 17th century, soccer has been spreading from Europe and the United States to countries all over the world, especially some culturally developed countries. People came out more and more to play this exciting and enjoyable game, so much so that there was a time when how well the game was played was taken as a sign of whether a country was culturally advanced or not.