"Cu" has the meanings of footwork, kicking and kicking. The earliest "Ju" was a ball with outer leather and inner rice bran. "Cuju" refers to the ancients 'football, football activities`. It's similar to today's football. According to historical records, as early as the Warring States Period, entertaining Cuju games were popular among the Han people. Since the Han Dynasty, it has become a method of military training. In the Song Dynasty, there were many Cuju organizations and Cuju artists. In the Qing Dynasty, ice Cuju became popular. Most emperors of Tang and Song Dynasty attached great importance to Cuju, and regarded it as a military training means. They often watched the Games in person.
Wrestle
One of the oldest sports events in China is called wrestling.More than 5,000 years ago, there was wrestling in the Yellow Emperor's era. By the Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC - 221 BC), wrestling was listed as a formal sport. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, wrestling moved from a single military purpose to the folk, and became an entertainment for people to enjoy. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, wrestling was integrated into the skills of Manchu and Mongolian nationalities, and gradually formed the embryonic form of modern Chinese style
wrestling.
Archery
Archery can be said to be the ancestor of ancient Chinese sports. Archaeologists have found a
stone arrow at Shiyu Cultural Site in Shanxi Province, which indicates that people began to use bows and arrows at that time. This arrow was made of stone and tied to a wooden pole as a tool for archery at that time. By the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, with the emergence of bronze tools, stone arrows began to develop towards bronze arrows.
In the Han Dynasty, with the development of iron instruments, bronze arrows gradually developed to iron arrows. With the diversification of arrows, many changes have taken place in the form of archery. For example, archery was included in education in the Zhou Dynasty. At that time, six arts were rituals, music, shooting, imperial court, books and numbers, among which archery was an important content.Confucius, Xuncius and Mo-tse were all archery enthusiasts at that time. They also encouraged them to archery.
From the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, archery activities have been greatly developed. According to the relevant documents, there were more than 600 "bow and arrow societies" of non-governmental organizations in Hebei at that time, with more than 30,000 participants, which could be said to be the earliest professional athlete organization in the history of China.
Polo is the sport of people hit the ball with a stick on horseback, so it is also called "hitting the ball" and so on. The sport of Polo was introduced from Tibet in the Tang Dynasty. Because the classification of ancient sports is not detailed, and the aforementioned "General Examination of Documents" and "Integration of Ancient and Modern Books" classify Polo into "Cuju"department, which makes the distinction between the two more complex. Polo is made of light and tough wood, hollowed out in the middle, painted with various colors on the outside, and a little carved. It is called "color ball" and "seven treasure ball". The biggest difference is that Polo is hit with a stick and football is kicked. The Polo stick is several feet long and has the end like the moon. It's a little like today's hockey stick. The stick body is often carved with exquisite patterns. It is also called "moon stick" and so on.
