First of all, a brief introduction.
1. In ancient times, there was a traditional game called "Jumping a Hundred Ropes", which means skipping rope. This game was called "Head Rope" in Tang Dynasty, "Jumping Rope" in Song Dynasty, "Jumping Hundred Ropes", "Jumping White Rope" and "Jumping Horse Rope" in Ming Dynasty and "Jumping Rope" in Qing Dynasty. In ancient times, skipping rope was not only a game, but also had many other functions.
2. First of all, skipping rope can be used as a tool to exercise and enhance coordination, which helps to improve people's physical fitness and flexibility. Secondly, skipping can also be used as a tool for children's enlightenment education, and children's sense of rhythm and coordination can be cultivated through skipping games.
In addition, skipping rope can also be used as props for performing arts and acrobatics, making the performance more exciting and more ornamental. Finally, in some areas, skipping rope is also used as a way to pray and exorcise evil spirits, and as an important entertainment item during festivals.
Second, jump rope.
1. Skipping is a kind of sports in which one or more people do various jumping movements on a circular rope. This game was called "Head Rope" in Tang Dynasty, "Jumping Rope" in Song Dynasty, "Jumping Hundred Ropes", "Jumping White Rope" and "Jumping Horse Rope" in Ming Dynasty and "Jumping Rope" in Qing Dynasty.
2. As an ancient folk entertainment of Han nationality, every household has a skipping competition since the Southern Song Dynasty. Skipping rope has a long history. When Nu Wa "leads the rope in the mud and holds it by people", the rope will live with people. The ancients used ropes to keep records, and also used ropes to tie harvested crops, or to tie horses and cattle, to tie prey and so on.
Rope has become an important tool in human life. Therefore, skipping may have originated from primitive farming, hunting or military activities. The earliest historical data of skipping rope is the pictures of skipping rope on stone reliefs in Han Dynasty, which proves that skipping rope has been carried out at the latest in Han Dynasty.