Chapter 49: Temari Ball (1)

Eucalyptus's grandmother had dexterous hands, and she made more than 500 beautiful temari balls. My grandmother has a neighbor, Teacher Chen Wen, who is also a very fond of bowing, and Grandma and Chen Wen often get together to discuss the color scheme and skills of bowing.

On the weekend, Lan Yu came to Mr. Chen's house, and Mr. Chen's husband, Brother Huang, took us to a room, which is also the place where the couple usually spend their free time.

Mr. Chen is a teacher in a university, and his husband Brother Huang is a lover of tea art, and he usually makes tea and drinks tea here when he has nothing to do, while Mr. Chen sits opposite to make a bow ball, and Brother Huang sometimes helps pull the string, so quiet and leisurely slow life is really envious of others.

When it comes to juqiu, Mr. Chen said that it is purely because of his hobby, when he was in school, as a teacher of garden design, he would usually come into contact with the design of some drawings, which naturally laid the foundation for the pattern design when making juqiu.

Teacher Chen is a very quiet person, she said that making this bow ball, very patient, because the patterns on it are pierced one by one, as long as there is a wrong needle, you have to dismantle the front one, and do it again. That's a very grinding thing, and Mr. Chen said that he has never been annoyed by doing something wrong and trying to do it again, but in order to do it well, it often takes hours to do it at a time.

Temari, also known as Temari, is a folk art form that originated in the Tang Dynasty of China and can be used to throw and play. In the 7th century AD, it spread to Dongying and developed into a veritable art form.

Due to its long production process, it has become a gift that brings good luck and symbolizes happiness, and is also the seasonal phrase for the "New Year". At the end of the 16th century, the core was replaced with a highly elastic sphere made of cotton thread and colored silk threads wound around it, and the toy was Temari.

Teacher Chen told Eucalyptus that Temari is also filled with rice husks and fragrant sawdust when it is made, and it is regarded as a lucky ball to bring blessings to loved ones, and it is only given to those who love the most.

It is said that "Daohe" is a "fox fairy" who is greedy for life and afraid of death in Japan. Rice husks are filled with a temari ball, and the "rice harvest" lives in the temari ball. Keep it next to your pillow when you are sick, or take it with you when you go out, it has the effect of warding off evil spirits. When the master encounters danger or a supernatural offense, the greedy "Daohe" who is afraid of death will definitely jump out to save the master's life in order to protect himself.

As early as the Heian period, along with Kemari who kicked with his feet, he was born to play with his hands. The original hand hammer was a hand throwing type, that is, the hand was thrown high to prevent it from falling to the ground. Considering the hand to be an acrobatic skill, an entertainer named "Pinyukan (Zhuyu)" appeared. The emergence of Pinyu made it popular with the general public.

Kemari is two pieces of smooth and elastic deerskin, stitched together, and the gameplay is to pass and kick in order, accompanied by intricate etiquette, costumes, etc., from "The History of Japanese Games".

During the Muromachi period, Temari made of silk rolled silk began to circulate among noble women. At the beginning of the Edo period, it was no longer just a matter of rolling with thread, and the chaff and sand were filled with cores to make sounds, and there were also shoguns that were wrapped in sawdust to make them bounce.

In the Edo period, Temari, which was originally played by throwing on the hand, was rolled with kapok thread to make it more elastic and could be played on the ground. With the spread of kapok cultivation, kapok thread became easier to get by, and the heyday of Temari began to be widely made by ordinary people.

There is such a record that has been left - the monk Yoshikuan from Echigo Province said, "The child's innocent heart is the sincere Buddha's heart, so he likes to play with children, often plays hide and seek with them, and often puts a handbag in his arms."

During the Ansei period, Temari became popular as a girl's toy, along with Oihana (one of the traditional Japanese toys, similar to a badminton, with a wooden paddle) as a play toy for the New Year's Eve of the daughter.

Although Temari was once all the rage in Japan, the word "ju" originally appeared in the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which is what we now call football. The "ju" of "Keju" is sewn from a kind of cooked leather, and the inside is filled with round solid hair balls of wool or other materials, which are strong and resistant to kicking.

Around the 7th century, the Japanese "Tang Dynasty Envoys" brought the sport back to Japan from China, and it slowly became popular among the Japanese aristocracy, becoming a routine event performed at shrines and dedicated to the gods during the New Year.

After centuries of development, another form of object was derived from the "mari ball" - temari. If Kemari is a sporting good that men are particularly keen on, then Temari is a toy that girls are particularly fond of. It is beautifully made using leftovers from making kimonos, filled into balls, and then wound into geometric shapes with colorful silk threads.

With the development of the economy, this traditional handicraft has become popular from Japan and has become a high-end handicraft, which is becoming more and more exquisitely made, and is given to each other by relatives and friends, representing the most sincere blessings and good wishes.

At the beginning of 2004, the International Football Federation confirmed that football originated in China, and "Keju" is the earliest football activity recorded in historical records.

The origin of modern football still comes from the ancient Chinese Keju, which was later transmitted to Europe by the Arabs and developed into modern football.

According to historical records, as early as the Warring States Period, the Han folk were popular entertaining Keju games, and from the Han Dynasty, it became the method of military training, and in the Song Dynasty, there were Keju organizations and Keju artists, and the Qing Dynasty began to be popular Keju on ice. Therefore, it can be said that Keju is a sports wonder that has been passed down for a long time and has great influence in ancient China.

The era of the Yellow Emperor was originally a military training and sports activity, and later emperors were also very fond of it, and it spread all over the people, so after that, the methods of Keju also became diverse, playing, or using both hands and feet, or riding a horse and holding a staff to hit the ball.

"Historical Records" and "Warring States Policy" were the earliest records of football. The records of "Historical Records" and "Warring States Policy" both show that in Linzi, the former capital of Qi at that time, Keju has developed into a mature way of amusement, and it is widely popular among the people.

King Xuan of Qi reigned from 319 BC to 301 BC, so it can be concluded that in a historical period more than 2,300 years ago or earlier, football activities in Linzicheng, the former capital of Qi, were widely carried out. Keju has developed into a popular sports and recreational activity among the people.

After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, the Keju movement fell silent for a while. After the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, it was revived again. The Han Dynasty regarded Keju as a way to "govern the country and practice martial arts", and it was not only widely practiced in the army, but also among the court nobility.

It is recorded in "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" that after Liu Bang became the emperor, he took his father Liu Taigong to the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an City for the elderly, and his food and clothing were extremely luxurious, and he watched Kabuki music all day long. But he was not satisfied, and he was depressed all day long. It turned out that Mrs. Liu had lived in the lower strata of the city since he was a child, close to ordinary pawns, slaughtering dogs and cattle, and his after-work entertainment activities were inseparable from cockfighting and juju.

So, Liu Bang made a holy decree, in the east of Chang'an City, a hundred miles away, modeled on the scale of the original Peixian Fengyi, built a new city, and moved all the residents of the original Fengyi to the new city, and Liu Taigong and Liu Wen also moved there. began to "fight cocks and bow for joy" again, and then I was satisfied.

From this story, we can know that during the Warring States Period, football was a favorite entertainment for the lower classes of the city, and in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, football was also loved by the aristocratic class. Huan Kuan's "Treatise on Salt and Iron" said that the society of the Western Han Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, and "the home of the nobles, the juju and the cockfight" are happy, and the ordinary people are also in the "Kangzhuang galloping, and the poor alleys are juju".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very fond of watching the Keju movement. According to the Book of Han, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty often held "Chicken Ju Meeting" in the palace with cockfighting and juju competitions as the content, and the home of his favorite minister Dong Xian also specially raised "Juke" (similar to today's football stars) who could play football. It can be seen that in the Western Han Dynasty, the social aspect of football activities was expanded.

Due to the prosperity of Keju sports, the Han Dynasty also appeared to study this sport monographs, the Han Dynasty someone once wrote a "Keju Twenty-five Articles", which is the country's earliest sports professional book, but also the world's first sports professional book. When Ban Gu wrote the "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles", he listed the "Twenty-five Chapters of Keju" as a military book, which belonged to the category of military training and military skills, but unfortunately it was later lost.

Xiang Chu in the Western Han Dynasty was the first person to go down in history for football, but his experience was unfortunate. "Historical Records: The Biography of Bian Que Cang" records that the famous doctor Chun Yu saw a doctor for Xiang and told him not to overwork, but Xiang did not listen and still went out to play football, and as a result, he vomited blood and died, which also made Xiang Chu the first fanatical "fan" in the world.

With the development of social productive forces, football production technology has also improved. In the Tang Dynasty, there were two major improvements in the ball-making process: one was to change the spherical shell made of two pieces of skin to a spherical shell sewn into a circle with eight pieces of pointed skin. The shape of the ball is more rounded. The second is to change the hair stuffed in the spherical shell to put an animal urine bubble, "shh According to the history of world sports, the invention of the inflated ball in England was in the 11th century, three to four hundred years later than the Tang Dynasty.

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