In 307 BC, King Wuling of Zhao popularized "Khufu riding and shooting", and Zhao people learned to ride horses and shoot arrows. Wang Zhao often goes for a ride with his friends. One day, when I came to a forest, I saw some rabbits in the forest. King Zhao opened his mouth and said, "Take him alive." So he divided his troops into four ways and caught them together. In fear, the rabbits ran around and escaped from the cracks in the horse, but found nothing. A counselor suddenly brightened up and came forward to offer advice: "Your Majesty, this kind of containment is very interesting. We might as well use the ball instead of the rabbit and play every day without leaving the palace. " Zhao praised it. "I'll leave it to you."
Thus, the football game-Cuju was born.
2. Modern football
1) Cuju spread to England.
Cuju at that time was a ball game played on horseback. In the Tang Dynasty, Cuju began to be exported to the outside world, and the first place to land was England. Because the traffic was underdeveloped at that time, the traffic workers' playground was very backward. After a long journey of several months, when Cuju arrived in England, the horse was exhausted and there was only one ball left. Britain regards it as a treasure, which is limited to the exclusive activities of the royal family and forbidden to the public.
2) English battlefield inspiration
In the 1 1 century, the Danes invaded England. One day, when the British were digging a battlefield, they accidentally dug up the skulls of several Danes. The Englishman was furious at the thought of the crime of Danish invasion. They raised their feet and kicked hard at the skull, which eased their anger and made them feel quite happy. As a result, more and more British people took part in this kind of "kicking the ball" parade on the battlefield. A group of children came to kick when they saw it, but they found that their skulls hurt when they kicked, so they replaced it with cow bladder blowing-this is the birth of modern football.
3) Popularization
This patriotic act touched the king of England. In order to reward the people, the king of England ordered the royal football to be opened to the people. Soon, football spread among the people and became a popular sports and entertainment activity.