Chapter 49: Temari Ball (3)

The nameless clan of the Yuan Dynasty said: "Seeing the tourists and horses, the king and grandson are arguing for bows." This shows that Kemari was very popular at that time. Male and female kicks were also common in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Yuan Song said: "There are never few female captains like this, and they often hug and throw them with the Yuanshe, and they accompany some heroes in the field." That Fengbiao, the body is ...... bewitching. ”

This scene is also reflected in the cultural relics. There are two bronze mirrors with football patterns in the History Museum and the Hunan Museum, and the relief on the back of the mirror is a pair of men and women kicking each other. But these women are geisha who specialize in playing football with others, not ordinary women.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were very few records of football activities in historical books. The Manchus once combined it with ice skating, and the form of "bowing on ice" appeared. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, an ice frolic ceremony was held every winter in Taiye Pond (now Beihai), "to practice labor and reward, and to cultivate national customs with simple martial arts".

Every year in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, "200 good ice walkers are selected for each flag according to a fixed number, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepares skates, heads, bows and arrows, and ball racks." Nine days after the winter solstice, the emperor "drove the Yingtai and other places, and set up ice frolic and shooting the heavenly sphere and other tricks ......". The content of ice frolic also includes ice bowing, skating tart, ice juggling, ice bed (cross bed), speed skating, etc.

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the introduction of modern football from the West, the traditional Chinese Keju activity was basically replaced by modern football in Europe, and shuttlecock kicking was regarded as the "relic of Keju".

Li You of the Han Dynasty once wrote "Ju Cheng Ming", which recorded and described the way of kicking without a goal at that time called white play, which lasted the longest and was the most widely carried out, with a variety of forms such as one person to ten players.

White play is mainly the game tricks and skills, also known as the game "solution", each set of solutions have a variety of kicking actions, such as crutches, tiptoes, hits, kicks, twists, etc., the ancients also gave some actions names, such as turning the world, swallow homing to the nest, oblique flower arrangement, wind pendulum lotus, Buddha top beads, dry land fish, golden Buddha grinding, shoulders back the moon, abduction meteor, etc. Keju games with goals can be divided into direct matches with double goals and indirect games with single goals.

Direct competition with double goals was the main method of juju in the Han Dynasty (206 BC ~ 220 AD), and was used in military training. In the case of direct confrontation matches, there is a jujo, or a stadium, surrounded by a short wall.

Both sides of the game have goals that look like little houses; There are 12 players on the field, and the two sides have a confrontation of direct physical contact, just like a war, and the one who kicks and bows into the opponent's goal wins.

Single-goal indirect play was the main way of juju during the Tang (618~907 AD) and Song (960~1279 AD) periods, and was mainly used for court banquets and diplomatic ceremonial competitions. In indirect confrontation matches, there is a goal in the middle, and there is a "merry eye" of more than two feet in the middle of the goal, and both sides are on one side, so that the ball can pass through the wind without landing.

Although the blue eucalyptus could not be seen in person in the grand occasion of Keju in ancient times, under the guidance of Mr. Chen, he found that the tools for making Temari balls were not complicated, and the main tools were embroidery threads and steel needles. Through the layering and winding of embroidery threads of different colors, the basic shape of the bow ball is formed.

Temari balls are embroidery, weaving, and pattern design, embroidered with embroidery thread according to certain rules, and geometric patterns are slowly formed, presenting unexpected beauty. Every time you change the color of an embroidery thread and every time you change the angle of embroidery, a completely different pattern will be formed.

Traditionally, Temari is made by wrapping the rice husks in washi paper, then wrapping the bottom thread layer by layer, and then embroidering a gorgeous pattern with silk or cotton thread.

Mr. Chen demonstrated the production process of Temari, first making the inner core, then dividing the balls, and finally embroidering.

Teacher Chen wraps the rice husk in washi paper (you can add a small bell that rings), and wraps it with a bottom line until it is perfectly round, and the size is arbitrary.

Teacher Chen also taught another method of eucalyptus. If you want to add a small bell, you can dig a hole in the ball and bury it.

The wrapped ball is divided into equal parts and marked with gold or other strings. The geometry of dividing the ball is actually unintentionally reflected in the traditional technique, how many sides the ball can be divided into, how many shapes can be combined, and how many variations of the temari ball can be.

Embroidery may seem complicated, but it is not difficult to follow the steps to thread the threads one by one, and anyone who can sew buttons can make it.

Teacher Chen asked the blue eucalyptus to start with a small ball first. It can be used as a hair accessory, earrings, or a car hanger.

China has always paid attention to the design of the pattern is often symmetrical, so on the bow ball, the pattern for symmetry, what we have to do is to insert a needle in the four positions of the ball, southeast, northwest and northwest, and outline the horizontal line and longitudinal line of the ball with a line to fix the position.

The next step is to use threads of different colors to create delicate patterns. This is also the most difficult step, Teacher Chen said that at the beginning she did it on the video, always did not do well, almost every time it was dismantled and redone, after a few months, after the technique gradually became proficient, it became much faster to do, like a more complex pattern, it generally takes 5-6 hours, and the simple one is 3-4 hours.

Eucalyptus's favorite style of temari balls is called "crape myrtle blossom". A handful of lavender seeds wrapped in soft gauze, lightly fragrant and pleasant, wrapped into a round ball with cotton thread, embroidered with colored threads, and the time of several hours flows quietly......

There are also "three primary colors of national style", the beloved strong national style, no matter how rich it is......

"Dogwood Pink" is the legend of the stars and moon, my favorite blue and purple color.

The "five-color plum" flower pattern is cheerful and lively, and the colors are rich and gorgeous, attracting butterflies to flutter here......

The color of "green orange octopatus" is dreamy and beautiful, dotted with small beads around the circle, smart and lively, hand-woven lanyard, and the texture is not lost in beauty.

The "blue and purple shadows" are colorful and stacked into fun, like a dream.

"Yellow Yae-ju" is a warm yellow hue that brings brightness to the monochrome bag, and it is decorated with small beads, which is smart and cute......

"Three Feathers Blue Chrysanthemum" has a strong sense of harmony, like a flower blooming in the ice and snow world, cold and noble.

"Crimson light" has the depth of ochre, like a change of mood, just like a change of mood, just like a gentle fly......

"Green Orange Eight Complex Chrysanthemum" is a quiet army green, overlapping gradient petals, mysterious and fantastical, just like the first sight......

"Green grass and fragrance" is like green aquatic plants, full of coolness!

"Fireworks blue" is a bright lake blue, a bright color that cannot be missed~

"Careful thinking" is the gentleness of light purple, like the brightness of the stars~

"Purple Dream" is a gradient of purple that surrounds the whole ball, and the stitching method of embroidering up and down makes the huge chrysanthemum symmetrical and blooms at the same time, which is very gorgeous!

"Good period like a dream" is orange blossom on a blue background, compact and complex petals, small flower shape, and blue beads embellishment.

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