At this year's Asian Cup in Qatar, the Chinese men's football team bid farewell to the game with a record of two draws and one loss. This result is also a disappointment for the majority of fans, who feel that the development of the men's football team is not as good as year by year.
Football is a sport that has lasted for thousands of years. In ancient China, it was also called Keju, which first appeared in the "Historical Records of Su Qin Liebiography", which recorded: "Su Qin bachelor in Guiguzi, the theory of power." Naiyou princes, said that the corresponding marquis of Qin said: The ministers heard that the king of Qi was good at bowing. This shows that during the Warring States period in Linzi, Keju has become a popular entertainment sport among the people.
However, after Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, the Keju movement disappeared for a time. After the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, it was rumored that Liu Bang was also one of the Keju lovers. Soon after ascending the throne, the "Ju Domain" was built in the palace, which is equivalent to today's open-air football field. Most of them are used for military training. In addition, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very fond of watching football matches, according to the Book of Han, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty often held cockfights in the palace in his spare time, and held entertainment activities with the main content of the Juju competition, and also recruited many masters, including the Hu captives after the pacification of the Western Regions.
In the Tang Dynasty, Keju entered the lives of ordinary people and became a popular sport. The poets Li Bai and Du Fu were also masters of the Keju movement.
In the Song Dynasty, Keju became more popular, and during the reign of Song Zhenzong, the powerful minister Ding Wei and Xiucai Liu Sanfu had first-class ball skills, and there was also a football star at that time, Gao Yu.
Gao Yu was Su Dongpo's scholar in his early years, and was later demoted to a homeless teenager because of Su Dongpo. Although he didn't have any ink on his chest, he was eccentric, and he switched to the Wang family of the horse Duwei to be a personal entourage. Once, Gao Yu was sent to Duanwang's Mansion to deliver something, and it happened that Duanwang was playing Keju. Just when a ball fell at Gao Yu's feet, Gao Yu, who couldn't help but itch, made a "mandarin duck crutch" and returned the ball to Duan Wangye. King Duan saw that his ball skills were good, so he kept him by his side. Later, King Duan ascended the throne for Song Huizong, and Gao Yu has been a phoenix Tengda since then, and the official has become a captain.
In addition to the peak of Keju in the Song Dynasty, there was also a professional organization "Qiyun Society" in Lin'an City (located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province), which was probably the earliest football club in history.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the army not to play ball, and in the Qing Dynasty, he simply ordered it directly, and even the folk Keju was banned.
Sometimes I think, what would happen if Li Bai, Du Fu, and Gao Yu came to play football now? Perhaps, due to institutional factors, it will still rise all the way through football. History