According to relevant historical data, billiards were popular among the people in China in the early Qing Dynasty and were deeply loved by people. Miao people in the mountainous areas where Sichuan and Yunnan meet in China regard this billiards game as a leisure and after-dinner pastime. They use the dried fruit of buttonwood or orange tree as a ball, a board with a long handle as a racket, and a door panel as a table, and the two sides fight each other. People call this the "smelly orange" game. According to other records, similar games prevailed in the Pearl River valley in the late Qing Dynasty, but instead of using dried fruits as balls, they were made into small balls with pig urine bubbles, which were more elastic than dried fruits, or fought on the table, on the ground or in the air. This is the predecessor of table tennis.
as far back as 18 years ago, an American sporting goods manufacturer invented a game called "indoor tennis" with ingenuity, and wanted to promote it in the United States, but it was left out in the cold. Reluctantly, he transferred it to an agent in London, and this game became popular in Britain. People put the dining tables together and pulled nets in the middle, so it was called "table tennis". At that time, the ball was made of cork or rubber and wrapped with cotton thread to prevent it from being beaten. A few years later, the hollow ball was born and table tennis began to spread all over the world. A man named Goode in London glued rubber to a racket. Because the racket made a "ping" sound when hitting the ball and a "ping" sound when the ball hit the table, the British called this game "ping-pong". This is the saying that the British invented table tennis.
Another saying is that it originated in South America. The local Indians made solid balls from the sap of rubber trees, which were light in weight and good in elasticity after drying, and were called "Makawa", which was very popular in the local area. Later, it was brought back to Europe by Columbus or other explorers and gradually spread.
There is another saying that originated in Russia. Some members of the aristocratic families in the Tsar era used rubber balls wrapped with wool to make balls to play games, which became quite popular around 189. It has also been said that in the courts of some European countries, ivory was the first to make balls, which was difficult to popularize because of its high cost.
The most popular saying is that table tennis originated in England. One day at the end of the 19th century, London encountered a rare sultry weather. After watching Wimbledon, two young people went to a single room in a fine restaurant for dinner. First, use the cigar box as a fan, and then discuss tennis skills and tactics. Pick up the cork bottle cap as a ball, use the table as a table, pull a string in the middle as a net, and play with the cigar box cover. It happened that the waiter was cheering on the side, and the female shopkeeper who heard the news could not help but blurt out "TABLETEN-NIS". Since then, table tennis has become popular among college students and then all over Britain. A "table tennis" made a name for table tennis, which is still used today.
James Gibb, a British engineer, brought the hollow celluloid ball from America to England, replacing the original solid ball.
American Heyart invented a hollow ball, which makes a "ping" and "ping" sound when touching the table. A British sporting goods company uses the word "ping pong" as a trademark registration. In 1891, Charles Baxter, an Englishman, took table tennis as a commercial patent, applied for filing and obtained the patent license No.197.
montague, the first president of the International Table Tennis Federation, said that at the end of the 19th century, table tennis was popular with various strange names, and the equipment was very different from what it is now. In Europe, "indoor tennis" could be played on the table or on the ground. The racket was similar to the badminton racket now, and the ball was a hard and light solid ball. After the celluloid solid ball appeared, it almost spread all over the world.